page_title: Anton Hoffmann
section_title: Architect career
hierarchical_section_title: Anton Hoffmann / Life / Architect career
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Kamienica przy ul. Jezuickiej 6 w Bydgoszczy
context_page_description: Anton Hoffmann was an important designer and builder in Prussian-time Bydgoszcz during the entire second half of the 19th century. He witnessed the transformation of Bydgoszcz, creating numerous residential buildings throughout the city. His activity became, in a sense, an indicator of Bydgoszcz building traditions, bridging old neo classicist masters and their successors, inspired by Historicism and Art Nouveau.
context_section_description: Unlike most construction masters at the time, Anton never built his own home nor lived in a property he owned: he rented the apartments in which he lived and worked. With the help of address books, can consequently work out the different houses he lived in with his family:
  52 Feldstrasse (today's Jackowski Street) in 1855 ;
  12 Bahnhofstrasse (29 Dworcowa street) in 1858;
  38 Friedrichstrasse (4 Długa street), in 1864;
  12 Neue Pfarrstrasse (6 Jezuicka street), from 1866 to 1876;
  11 Wilhelmstrasse (16 Focha street), from 1877 to 1880 and in 1892;
  3 Bahnhofstrasse (7 Dworcowa street) between 1881 and 1884;
  25 Gammstrasse (10 Doktora Emila Warmińskiego street), from 1885 to 1891;
  151/152 Danzigerstrasse (34/36 Gdańska street), from 1893 to 1895;
  36 Danzigerstrasse (59 Gdańska street) in 1896;
  41 Danzigerstrasse (69 Gdańska street) between 1897 and 1900;
  47 Rinkauerstrasse (46 Pomorska Street) in 1901-1902;
  38 Danzigerstrasse (63 Gdańska street) in 1903;
  6 Schulstrasse (86 Bielicka street) from 1904 to 1908.
  Unlike his colleagues, he was not involved in lucrative and relatively popular real estate: many of his contemporaries purchased plots of land, invested in buildings, and then sold them for profit. Once retired, Anton moved to a rental flat located on the outskirts of the Bielsko Nowe commune. Here he spent the four last years of his life as a rentier. He died on Friday evening, February 14, 1908, and was buried four days later at the Nowofary Cemetery in Bydgoszcz.
caption: House at 6 Jezuicka street
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