Hotel "Bohema" in Bydgoszcz

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Hotel "Bohema" is a 5-star rated hotel housed in a historical building at on Konarskiego Street N°9, in downtown Bydgoszcz.

Location

The building stands on the western side of Konarskiego Street in Bydgoszcz, near Piotra Skargi Street. The building is in the vicinity of the Park Casimir the Great, Plac Wolnosci and Foutain "Potop".

Advertising for Otto bollmann business, 1878

History

The building was constructed in 1877 by master mason Anton Hoffman, stepfather of Józef Święcicki, who designed a multitude of tenements in Bydgoszcz, in particular Hotel "Pod Orlem", Gdanska street N°63 or Stary Port Street N°1 and 3.

The first owner was a brick factory, Otto Bollmann, German merchant who never lived in the house. The edifice was conceived as a tenement house with five apartments. Originally at Schule straße 3, tenants were senior officers, officials and artists, such as:

• Julius Bachmann, Lord Mayor of Bromberg in the 1880s,;^[2]
• Jerzy Rupniewski, famous 1920s-1950s Polish painter.^[3]

In 1920, the property passed into the hands of Magdalena Łaganowska^[4] who settled there and rented the other flats. During World War II, the tenement was taken over by German authorities, who accommodated there doctors who worked at the field hospital set up at Konarskiego N°5, now the building of the Catering School of Bydgoszcz.^[3]

After World War II, the tenement was managed by a communist estate agency, till the early 1990s. In 1997, it returned to private hands. Since December 2003, the owners of the building are Joanna and Janusz Franczak: they rebuilt the interiors and opened in July 2008 the Hotel "Bohema".^[5] The Café and restaurant "Weranda" opened on April 15, 2007, and restaurant "Black Diamond" on March 22, 2009.^[5]

Architecture and characteristics

The hotel features eclectic style, standing out as a charm and rich bourgeois house from the belle époque period.^[6]

The facade on the street boasts neo-Renaissance characteristics, in particular:

• a frieze and a rosette strip parting ground and first floor;
• two slight avant-corps, the right one -giving way to a passage to the backyard- is adorned on the first level by a figure inserted in the curved pediment;
• pilasters on the first floor entirely covered with delicate motifs.

The building side giving onto the park comprises the "Weranda" restaurant, but also exposes in the background nicely restored wooden balcony and loggia.

The hotel offers 24 rooms, a studio for families, apartments and suites.^[5] Besides, it features, among others, a restaurant, the "Black Diamond", where you can have dinner in complete darkness, a rooftop terrace with jacuzzi,a wine cellar, an indoor swimming pool, a Spa and a Clarins massage salon.^[5]

Every few months are organized exhibitions of artists, concerts and meetings with famous people.^[5] The hotel is proud of its ancient limousine with chauffeur in livery, which became today a symbol of the institution.

Hotel "Bohema", since 2008, is the only five star hotel within Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The building has been registered on the Pomeranian Heritage List (N°722475, Reg.A/1385) on September 16, 2008.

Distinguished guests

Since its opening, Hotel "Bohema" is a regular meeting place for famous Polish and international people, such as:

Gallery

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  View from the street, with the ancient limousine parked at the front
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  Main entries
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  Frieze, rosette and balustrade
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  View from the park
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  Wooden balcony and loggia onto the park

See also

• Bydgoszcz
• Piotra Skargi Street in Bydgoszcz
• Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz
• Freedom Square, Bydgoszcz
• Jagiellońska street in Bydgoszcz
• Casimir the Great Park

Bibliography

• (Polish) Umiński Janusz: Bydgoszcz. Przewodnik. Regionalny Oddział PTTK „Szlak Brdy”, Bydgoszcz 1996.
• (Polish) Parucka, Krystyna (2008). Zabytki Bydgoszczy – minikatalog. Bydgoszcz: "Tifen" Krystyna Parucka. 
• From Bunia to "Bohema", discussion between Joanna and Janusz Franczak with Irena Stürm-Delcroix, leaflet booklet published by the hotel.

External links

• Web site of Hotel Bohema

References

Coordinates: 53°07′00″N 18°00′00″E / 53.11667°N 18.00000°E / 53.11667; 18.00000