Carl Bradtke Tenement
# Carl Bradtke Tenement

The Carl Bradtke Tenement is a historical habitation building located at 93 Gdańska Street, in Bydgoszcz, Poland It is registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage list.

## Location

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street between Świętojańska street and Chocimska street.

It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:

* Villa Carl Grosse at 84;
* Otto Riedl Tenement at 85;
* Villa Hugo Hecht at 88/90;
* Tenement at 91 Gdanska street;
* Hugo Hecht tenement at 92/94.

## History

The house was built in 1895-1896, on a design by architect Joseph Święcicki for a master stonecutter Carl Bradtke. Carl Bradtke worked also with Fritz Weidner for the erection of a nearby building at Nr.91.

The house, from the beginning, had been thought as a rental building as well as a trading one with two wings merging at the rear. The initials of the first owner ("CB") appear in a cartouche of an upper pediment.

The initial address of the house was 53 Danzigerstrasse.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the tenement housed a bicycles dealer, company Patria, run by Erich Krahn, .

In the 1920s a patisserie (Polish: Piekarnia) owned by Emil Kobielski had been operating in the building.

## Features

The building has a richly decorated facade with two small side gables, in which stands a gargoyle on a background of ostrich feathers. The architect created a functional complex of buildings centered around a rectangular courtyard enclosed at the back. A hallway allows to get the residential house located at the back of the garden.

The front building follows the Historicism style with references to Neo-Baroque and Rococo. In the same area, Józef Święcicki also realized other edifices:

* Hotel "Pod Orlem" at 14 Gdańska street;
* Oskar Ewald Tenement at 30 Gdańska street;
* Józef Święcicki tenement at 63 Gdańska street;
* Tenement at 86 Gdańska street;
* Hugo Hecht tenement at Gdańska street Nr.92/94;
* Tenement at 1 Plac Wolności.

The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List Nr.601318 Reg.A/1126/1-4, on June 5, 1993.

## Gallery

* Frontage onto Gdanska Street
* Balcony and gable
* Cartouche with Carl Bradtke initials
* Detail of 1st floor balcony
