Rudolf Kern Tenement | |
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Polish: Kamienica Rudolfa Kerna w Bydgoszczy | |
General information | |
Type | Tenement |
Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
Classification | Nr.601377-Reg.A/1086, 20 November 1995[1] |
Location | 1 Mickiewicz Alley, at the intersection with Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland |
Coordinates | 53°7′55″N 18°0′36″E / 53.13194°N 18.01000°E |
Groundbreaking | 1903 |
Completed | 1904 |
Client | Rudolf Kern |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 5 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Rudolf Kern |
Rudolf Kern Tenement is a habitation building located at 1 Mickiewicz Alley, in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It has been inscribed on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.
The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street at the intersection with Mickiewicz Alley.
It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:
On the plot, before the current building, there was a tavern (German: wirtschaft), managed by Emil Manthei[2]
This made the area prone to leisure, emphasized by the presence, since the end of the 19th century, of a theatre and a restaurant on the other side of the intersection (at 66-68 Gdańska street).
The house was built in 1903–1904, designed by the architect Rudolf Kern, a student of Józef Święcicki who also erected or redesigned other buildings in Gdańska Street:[3]
Rudolf Kern originally erected the tenement for his own use, private and business. He lived there until 1922.
The building will soon accommodate a four-star hotel, including a gastronomic restaurant, with recreational and commercial areas.[4]
The building has a decorative Art Nouveau facade. It has four main floors and one hidden in the upper roof. In a way its size balances the symmetry with the opposite building.[5]
It is characterized by an asymmetric arrangement of loggia and bays, typical decorative elements including leaf and tendril motifs, intertwined organic forms, mostly curvaceous in shape.[5]
Notable elements:
The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Heritage List Nr.601377 Reg.A/1086, on 20 November 1995.[1]