Henryka Sienkiewicza Street

(Redirected from Henryka Sienkiewicza Street, Bydgoszcz) Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 19th-20th century

Henryka Sienkiewicza Street, Bydgoszcz
Construction
View of the street to the south
Sienkiewicza street highlighted on a map
Native name	Ulica Henryka Sienkiewicza w Bydgoszczy (Polish)
Former name(s)	Mittelstraße, Fischerstraße
Part of	Śródmieście and Bocianowo districts
Namesake	Henryk Sienkiewicz
Owner	City of Bydgoszcz
Length	850 m (2,790 ft)
Width	ca. 10m
Location	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Construction start	End of the 1860s

Sienkiewicza Street is a long thoroughfare laid in the mid-1860s in downtown Bydgoszcz. Its frontage carries several tenements which have kept their original architectural features and their historical importance.

Location

The lane runs on an approximate north–south path in the west of downtown district. Stemming in the south from Dworcowa Street, its course crosses numerous other streets on the route: Podolska, Zduny, Lipowa, Śniadeckich, Chrobrego, Kwiatowa, Mazowiecka, Hetmańska and ends at Bocianowo street.

History

The first documents referring to Mittelstraße date back to 1869, as an address book registers some practitioners in this lane. Furthermore, the following issues (1872, 1876) list the houses in the street, i.e. 14 dwellings.

The street appears on map of Bromberg dated 1876, but its northern part is not completed, being laid in the Brenkenhof district (today's Bocianowo).

During its existence, the thoroughfare bore the following names:

till 1920, Mittelstraße (Middle street);
1920–1939, Ulica Henryka Sienkiewicza;
1939–1945, Fischerstraße;
Since 1945, Ulica Henryka Sienkiewicza.

The current name refers to Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), a famous Polish journalist, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1905.

Within time, the house numbering in the street evolved, either to account for the extension of the axis (in the mid-1880s and in 1900) or adapt the horse shoe system to the Polish rule (in 1920).

Main areas and edifices

Tenement at 48 Dworcowa Street, corner with Sienkiewicza street

1875-1900

v t e Streets and squares in Bydgoszcz
Stare miasto district (transl. Old town)	Czartoryskiego street Długa street Farna street Grodzka street Jezuicka street Podwale street Przyrzecze street Stary Port street
Śródmieście district (transl. Downtown)	Cieszkowskiego street Chrobrego street Dworcowa street Focha street Gdańska street Gimnazjalna, Libelta and Szwalbego streets Jagiellońska street Kołłątaja street Konarskiego street Kopernika street Kordeckiego street Zygmunt Krasiński street Kwiatowa street Marcinkowskiego street Markwarta street Mazowiecka street Adam Mickiewicz avenue Obrońców Bydgoszczy street Ossoliński avenue Piotrowskiego street Pomorska street Mikołaja Reja street Sielanka street Sienkiewicza street Piotra Skargi street Słowackiego street Staszica and Paderewskiego streets Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki street Świętego Floriana street Swiętej Trojcy street Świętojańska street 3 Maja street Doktora Emila Warmińskiego street Warszawska street Wileńska street
Wilczak district (transl. Wolfdog)	Nakielska street Seminaryjna street
Wzgórze Wolności district (transl. Freedom hill)	Bernardyńska street
Bocianowo district	20 Stycznia 1920 street Bocianowo Street Chocimska street Chodkiewicza street Gdańska street Kościuszki street Adam Mickiewicz avenue Paderewskiego street Pomorska street Sienkiewicza street Zamoyskiego street
Okole district	Garbary street Królowej Jadwigi street Grunwaldzka street
Skrzetusko district	Chopina street Krakowska street
Szwederowo district	Szwederowo district
Bielawy district	Chodkiewicza street
Babia Wieś district	Babia Wieś street Bernardyńska street Toruńska street
Main squares	Stary Rynek Plac Wolności Kościelecki square Piastowski square Theatre square Wool Market square Józef Weyssenhoff square Nowy Rynek

Location

History

Main areas and edifices

Tenement at 48 Dworcowa Street, corner with Sienkiewicza street

Tenement at 50 Dworcowa Street, corner with Sienkiewicza street

Tenement at 1

Building at 3

Tenement at 4

Plot at 5

Tenement at 6, corner with Podolska street

Tenements at 7/7a

Tenement at 9

Tenement at 10, corner with Zduny street

Building at 10a, corner with Zduny street

Grundtmann's tenement at 11, corner with Lipowa street

Kayser's villa at 12

Tenement at 13, corner with Lipowa street

Tenement at 14

Tenement at 15

ßausebad tenement at 16

Tenement at 17

Tenement at 35 Śniadeckich street, corner with Sienkiewicza street

Max Schmidt tenement at 42 Śniadeckich street, corner Sienkiewicza

Tenement at 17a

Tenement at 18

Tenement at 19

Tenement at 21

Tenement at 23, corner with Chrobrego street

August Jordan tenement at 24, corner with 18 Chrobrego street

Tenement at 20 Chrobrego street, corner with Sienkiewicza street

Tenement at 29

Donovang tenement at 30

Building at 31

Tenement at 17 Kwiatowa street, corner with Sienkiewicza street

Building at 32, corner with Kwiatowa street

Building at 33

Building at 35

Building at 36

Friedrich Lork tenement at 37

Building at 38, corner with 17 Mazowiecka street

Building at 40, corner with Mazowiecka street

Building at 41, corner with 19 Mazowiecka street

Tenement at 42, corner with Hetmańska street

Tenement at 44, corner with 16 Hetmańska street

Tenement at 45

Tenement at 47

Franz Bogusławski house at 48

Tenement at 49

Franz Bogusławski tenement at 50

Gączerzwicz tenements at 53/55/57

Wybrański tenements at 56/58

Hobbergs tenements at 59/61

Tenement at 60

See also

References

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