18 Facts About Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda.

Bydgoszcz is the seat of Casimir the Great University, University of Technology and Life Sciences and a conservatory, as well as the Medical College of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun.

Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city, with gothic, neo-gothic, neo-baroque, neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present, for which it has earned the nickname of Little Berlin.

The grod of Bydgoszcz was built between 1037 and 1053 during the reign of Casimir I the Restorer.

Bydgoszcz was an important royal city of Poland located in the Inowroclaw Voivodeship.

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In 1807, after the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon and the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit, Bydgoszcz became part of the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw.

Poles from Bydgoszcz were massacred at various locations in the city, at the Valley of Death and in the nearby village of Tryszczyn.

The history of Jews in Bydgoszcz ended with the German invasion of Poland and the Holocaust.

Currently, Bydgoszcz is the biggest center of NATO headquarters in Poland, the most known being the Joint Force Training Centre.

In Bydgoszcz, there are a great number of villas in the style of typical garden suburbs.

Since 2001, Bydgoszcz has been annually subjected to international 'verification' ratings.

In 2004, Bydgoszcz launched an Industrial and Technology Park of 283 hectares, an attractive place for doing business as companies that relocate there receive tax breaks, 24-hour security, access to large plots of land and to the media, the railway line Chorzow Batory – Tczew, the DK5 and DK10 national roads, and future freeways S10 and S5.

Bydgoszcz is a major cultural centre in the country, especially for music.

Since 1974, Bydgoszcz has been home to a very prestigious Academy of Music.

Bydgoszcz is an important place for contemporary European culture; one of the most important European centers of jazz music, the Brain club, was founded in Bydgoszcz by Jacek Majewski and Slawomir Janicki.

Bydgoszcz was a candidate for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2016.

Bydgoszcz's stage has been frequented by many global celebrities, including Arthur Rubinstein, Benjamin Britten, Witold Malcuzynski, Luciano Pavarotti, Shlomo Mintz, Mischa Maisky, Kevin Kenner, Kurt Masur, Kazimierz Kord, Jerzy Maksymiuk and Antoni Wit.

Bydgoszcz is one of the biggest railway junctions in Poland, with two important lines crossing there – the east–west connection from Torun to Pila and the north–south line from Inowroclaw to Gdansk.