Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki Street in Bydgoszcz
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| Polish: Ulica Jana i Jędrzeja Śniadeckich | |
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Location of Śniadecki Street
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| Former name(s) | Elisabethstraße, Dr Goebbels straße |
| Namesake | Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki |
| Owner | City of Bydgoszcz |
| Length | 800 m (2,600 ft) |
| Area | Downtown district |
| Location | Bydgoszcz |
Śniadecki Street is one of the most important streets of downtown Bydgoszcz, with an important mercantile concentration.
Śniadecki Street is oriented east-west and provides a link between Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz in the east and Dworcowa Street in Bydgoszcz to the west. It crosses an important city plaza, Piastowski Square (Polish: Plac Piastowski).
The presence of the Brda hotel practically closes the western tip of Śniadeckich Street to traffic with a final very narrow section.
Through history, this street had the following names:
Current patrons of the street are brothers Śniadecki: Jan an astronomer, and Jędrzej a doctor, biologist and chemist. They were born in Żnin and both taught as professors at Stefan Batory University of Vilnius in the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century.
The street was defined in the mid-19th century. As a consequence of the set up in 1851, of the railway station (Polish: Bydgoszcz Główna) in the north-west of Bydgoszcz, an intensive urban development happened in order to connect this area with the historical heart of the city, Gdańska Street. It is the same process that led to the development of nearby Dworcowa Street. At that time, the street was named Elisabethstraße, along with Elisabethmarkt (now Piastkowski Plac) the plaza it crossed to the north, in honor of Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, wife of the reigning the King of Prussia Frederick William IV of Prussia.
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