page_title: Old Market square, Bydgoszcz
section_title: Northern frontages
hierarchical_section_title: Old Market square, Bydgoszcz / Main buildings / Northern frontages
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Stary Rynek w Bydgoszczy - pierzeja północna
context_page_description: Bydgoszcz Old Market square is an oblong place, situated in the old town district of the city of Bydgoszcz. The City Hall flanks one of its side, and nearby is located St. Martin and St. Nicholas Cathedral.
context_section_description: House at No.1
  
  1780
  Eclecticism and Neo-classicism
  Here stands the oldest pharmacy in Bydgoszcz, Under the Golden Eagle (Polish: Pod Złotym Orłem), founded before 1590 at the Jesuit monastery. The institution was in possession of Jesuits until 1795. The pharmacy was bought in 1808 by Ludwik Kupffender, the son of the director of a local sugar factory. On October 4, 1909, Alfred Kupffender (who owned the firm till 1921), the fountain Children playing with geese in front of his plot 
  to commemorate 100 years of family business of the pharmacy. The subject with geese is a reference to the geese-market which used to be held in front of his plot. Doctor Kupffender at the time was responsible to run analysis on the quality of the water pumped from the new city water supply station.
  On the facade, a plaque remembers 55 inhabitants of Bydgoszcz who were shot on September 9, and 10, 1939, at the Old Market Square.
  The elevation is heavily decorated at each level. Two first floors display rows of windows topped by pediment adorned with floral motifs and coat of arms (1st floor) or a woman head (2nd floor). Both levels have a wrought iron balcony, while the last floor boasts pilasters, festoons on lintels and corbel tables capped by a frieze of rosettes.
  House at No.3
  
  17th century
  Neo-classicism
  From the 1880s to the end of the Prussian rule, the house housed the Barnaß family, working in distillation business (German: Distillation und Liquörfabrik).
  A local old book shop, Bydgoski Antykwariat Naukowy, is located on the ground floor of the building. Since 1969, nationwide auctions have been held here. On the façade, one can notice a plaque commemorating Tadeusz Nowakowski (1917-1996), a Polish writer and journalist, activist in exile, as honorary citizen of Bydgoszcz in 1993.
  During 1975 renovation works, on the ceiling of a spacious room of the basement, beams with remains of polychrome have been unveiled. Several of them are written dated: 1678 and October 30, 1590. Three beams have been moved for display in the house at No.12, where at the time stood the Węgliszek art cafe. Nowadays,the elevation, stripped from its decoration, features a few lintels or triangular pediments and pleasant ground floor round top openings. 
  House at No.5
  
  18th century
  Neo-classicism
  In 1642, the owner of the house was Maciej Pułkowski, a city burgher. Next landlord was a so-called Wilhelm, a Scot trading agent, Wilhelm Wallace, whose daughter Anna married Michał Paulusik, the town councilor and mayor of Bydgoszcz In the late 19th century, the building was owned by the family Vincent until the outbreak of WWI. At that time, the house housed also a large beerhouse, Automat.
  The colored frontage, without motifs, exhibits neo-classic style.
  House at No.7, corner with Mostowa street 1
  
  1765-1774
  
  Italian Neo-Renaissance
  The first mention about this house dates back to 1676, its landlord being Adam Szydłowski, a city councilman and administrator (1689). His wife Anna, née Paulusik, came from Łobżenica. She was the sister-in-law of mayor of Bydgoszcz, Wojciech Łochowski. In the late 17th century, the building was sold a house to Wilhelm Wallace, also owner of No.5 since 1642. Wilhelm Wallace was a Protestant and travelled regularly to Łobżenica to attend service religious ceremonies in the local community of the Unity of the Brethren.
  The house was ruined during the Great Northern War at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1765, a single-storey tenement house was bought by Antoni Niebieski from Fordon. In turn, in 1789, he sold it for 1200 Prussian thalers to a German merchant, Fryderyk Kuerschner, who was one of the first settlers to dwell belonged in the Netze District.
  In 1792, the house was auctioned together with the building at Jezuicka Street 4, and bought by a real estate agent, Jan Gabryel Oppermann. In 1798, it changed ownership for 4050 Prussian thalers (Jan Kuhlbrunn) and again in 1801, when Fryderyk Herrmann, a wealthy merchant already landlord of several houses, acquired it. Once divorced, Mrs. Schroer was courted by the count Fryderyk Skór
caption: View of northern frontages (No.1 to 7), plus houses at Farna Street (far left)
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