page_title: August Cieszkowski Street in Bydgoszcz
section_title: Houses at N°16/18/20
hierarchical_section_title: August Cieszkowski Street in Bydgoszcz / Main places and buildings / Houses at N°16/18/20
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Kamienice ul. Cieszkowskiego 14-20 Bydgoszcz
context_page_description: August Cieszkowski Street belongs to architecturally remarkable streets of Bydgoszcz, with its Art Nouveau features from the Fin de siècle period, forming a homogeneous complex of tenements from the end of 19th-century beginnining of 20th century, most of which are registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.
context_section_description: Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List, N°601275-Reg.A/1110, N°601277-Reg.A/1112 & N°601278-Reg.A/1113 (November 22, 1993)
  1901–1902, by Karl Bergner
  Eclecticism, elements of Art Nouveau
  The initiator of the project was Vincent Krause, the first owner, who sold the plot to the architect Karl Bergner. In 1901, Karl Bergner applied for a 3 houses building permission on the area. The work was finished in 1903, and shortly afterwards, individual pieces of the real estate were sold. A rehabilitation work including several architectural details has been performed around 2010.
  The three-storey building has a "L" footprint with small outbuilding wings. The ensemble has got a common Mansard roof with attics and dormers. Façades are standardized, without any distinct divisions of individual segments. In the central part of the block are two bay window topped with spires.  On the walls stand wide friezes with Art Nouveau plant motifs, while the bottom of both bay windows are adorned with chestnut leaves and a stylized head of a woman.
caption: Panorama on N°14 (left) and N°16/18/20 (right) facades
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