page_title: Mix Ernst tenement in Bydgoszcz
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Mix Ernst tenement in Bydgoszcz / History / Origins
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement Mix Ernst 1869
context_page_description: The house Ernst Mix in Bydgoszcz is located at N°10 of Gdańska Street in Bydgoszcz.
context_section_description: The building was erected in 1863 for Ernst Mix, a soap manufacturer, as a complex of two buildings.
  In 1905, the building was expanded to the south with a residential annex in the Art Nouveau style, richly decorated with animal figures by architect Fritz Weidner, a German builder who came to Bydgoszcz at the end of the 19th century. Weidner building activity in the city was focused between 1896 and 1914. From 1912 onwards, he lived in the house he built for himself at Gdańska 34.
  In the same area, Fritz Weidner built houses at the following addresses:
  Thomas Frankowski Tenement at Gdanska Street 28 in 1897;
  George Sikorski Tenement at Gdańska Street 31, in 1906;
  Max Rosental Tenement at Gdanska Street 42 in 1905;
  Ernst Bartsch tenement at Gdańska Street 79, in 1898;
  Tenement at Plac Wolności (Freedom Square) 3, in 1903.
  From 1863 until World War II, Ernst Mix's company operated a soap and candle factory in this facility. The address then was "Danziger strasse 42".
  In 1910, the owner adapted the building for commercial purposes. The two lower floors were then used as a Department Store called Modehaus Bromberg.
  A reconstruction took place between 1913-1914 under the supervision of Fritz Weidner.
caption: Advertisement for Mix Ernst products - 1869
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