The historic railway station building in Gdynia

The first railway station in the center of Gdynia was opened January 1, 1894. When the city and the harbor expanded significantly increased passenger traffic. In the years 1923-1926, a new brick and building were designed by Romuald Miller, built in the style of national - manor. After the destruction during World War II, was built in the fifties a new station, designed by the professor. Waclaw Tomaszewski, the author of the project and the building of Cotton House of Gdynia Maritime University. Railway buildings are a unique combination of social realism architecture of pre-war modernism. The railway station waiting room preserved frescoes of 1957, re-exposed during the renovation in 2008, of sea landscape mural depicting the heavenly bodies and signs of the zodiac, and a mosaic depicting Pegasus wheel station. The author was a professor. Julius Studnicki of Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts. In August 2008, the station building was entered in the register of monuments. In the same year he started the modernization of the station, which included, among others reconstruction of the main train station hall, canopy platforms and changes in the signaling system. During this work, in 2011 a stone wall was discovered in 1926 the railway, with a length of about 5 meters. It has been preserved and incorporated into the renovated interior. June 6, 2012 the official opening of the modernized station building. The project cost 40.7 million, and was partially financed by EU funds