Garbary Street

Garbary street is located in the Okole district of Bydgoszcz city, Poland. Its development occurred during the second half of the 19th century and today it displays several buildings listed on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage list, with a variety of architectural styles, from eclectic to early modernist. The area also nurtured a series of local successful factories, under the Prussian and the Polish periods.

Location
The street is located on an area between the Brda river and the Bydgoszcz Canal, laid on an ESE-WNW axis. It starts from the river bank and crosses a handful of other streets, among which Królowej Jadwigi Street.

History
The plot of land where the street lies was called canalswerder in the 19th century, as mentioned on an 1857 Prussian map of Bromberg. Indeed, the area was delimited by the Brda river bed on the north and the Bydgoszcz Canal on the south. Nowadays, the sector is even cut off in the north-west by a second section of the Bydgoszcz canal, built in the early 20th century.

The street is mentioned as early as the mid-19th century, as the address of the successful Buchholz tannery. The rest of the building plots have been completed at the turn of the 20th century.

The street bore only two names through time: The current appellation Garbary refers to the (Buchholz ) tannery, called garbarnia in Polish.
 * 19th century - 1920 and during German occupation, Albert straße, from Prince Albert of Prussia (1837–1906);
 * 1920 - 1939 and since 1945, Ulica Garbary.

Main edifices
House at 1

Today occupied by a modest house, the plot was owned at the end of the 19th century by the Prussian State Bank and was offering guest rooms.