Słowackiego Street in Bydgoszcz
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| Polish: Ulica Juliusza Słowackiego w Bydgoszczy | |
View from Gdańska Street
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Location of the street in Bydgoszcz
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| Former name(s) | Bismarck Straße |
| Part of | Bydgoszcz |
| Namesake | Juliusz Słowacki |
| Owner | City of Bydgoszcz |
| Length | 150 m (490 ft) |
| Area | Downtown |
| Location | Bydgoszcz |
Słowackiego Street is a street located in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Despite its shortness, many of its buildings are either registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, or are part of Bydgoszcz local history.
The street is located in downtown Bydgoszcz. It connects the main thoroughfare Gdańska Street to the green area of Jan Kochanowski Park in Bydgoszcz and the Pomeranian Philharmonic building.
Although lined up with Cieszkowskiego Street, Słowackiego Street was established much later. The street appears on Bromberg maps between 1900 and 1908, boosted by city's main expansion, thanks to the development of the Prussian Eastern Railway. City population grew from 12,900 inhabitants in 1852 to 57,700 inhabitants in 1910.
Słowackiego Street is listed as Bismarck Straße on Bromberg address book in 1905 for the first time: only the administrative building of the district, playing also the role of a courthouse (German: kreishaus), is mentioned there. In 1906, the street bears already five numbers, almost as many as today.
At the time, Bismarck Straße led from Danziger Straße to Bismarck Platz, where stands now the Philarmonia building, and further on to Eigenheim straße A, today's Kopernika Street.
Through history, the street bore the following names:
Current namesake refers to Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) a Polish Romantic poet, one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature (with Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasiński), considered as a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama.
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