środa, 22 lipca 2009
wtorek, 21 lipca 2009
Rain, rain go away...
...little Ola wants to play!
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
never show your face again!
text based on Nursery Rhymes
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
never show your face again!
text based on Nursery Rhymes
poniedziałek, 13 lipca 2009
"Jadwiga" Cokery
Heritage of August Borsig is alive not only at workers estate. "Jadwiga" Cokery, founded by A. Borsig as last of his great investmets in Zabrze is still producing coke. More history here (in english and in polish), our photos below.
sobota, 11 lipca 2009
Forms of life
Bozywerek is a living place. Nowadays it's rather cheap district - more than a hundred years ago "familoki" - the workers houses had quite a high standard, but very little changed from these times. I decided to add some info in english (see below the photos).
Settlement Borsig (Germany: Siedlung Borsigwerk, Silesian: Bozywerek) - workers' housing estate for employees of mining-metallurgical works, belonging to the German manufacturer, August Borsig was built in the years 1863 - 1871 to the south of the nearby coal mine "Hedwigswünsch" ( "Hedwig Wish"), "Ludwigsglück" ("Luck of Louis") and launched in 1863 years steelworks. It is currently a part of today's district of Zabrze - Biskupice.
At the same time as houses similar to each other and farm buildings, also a school, houses for teachers, park, gym as well as evangelical chapel and cemetery were built. In later years there have been built two kindergartens.
At those times standard of flats was very high. They numbered an average of 55 square meters, have kitchen facilities and even up to 3 chambers, outside the apartment - on the stairwell were WC and access to running water. The buildings of the estate consisted of over 50 two-storey houses, traditionally made from red bricks "familoki". The shape of the estate appointed by the geometric arrangement of buildings and streets designed to be symmetrical and balanced.
The northern part of the estate, of a better standard and a different form, was intended for senior staff.
Currently, Borsigwerk is one of the most unique of the patronage settlements (build by plant or mine owner for its workers) on Upper Silesia, however less known than Nikiszowiec and Giszowiec settlements in Katowice.
Source: Wikipedia (in Polish). Sorry for awkward translation
Settlement Borsig (Germany: Siedlung Borsigwerk, Silesian: Bozywerek) - workers' housing estate for employees of mining-metallurgical works, belonging to the German manufacturer, August Borsig was built in the years 1863 - 1871 to the south of the nearby coal mine "Hedwigswünsch" ( "Hedwig Wish"), "Ludwigsglück" ("Luck of Louis") and launched in 1863 years steelworks. It is currently a part of today's district of Zabrze - Biskupice.
At the same time as houses similar to each other and farm buildings, also a school, houses for teachers, park, gym as well as evangelical chapel and cemetery were built. In later years there have been built two kindergartens.
At those times standard of flats was very high. They numbered an average of 55 square meters, have kitchen facilities and even up to 3 chambers, outside the apartment - on the stairwell were WC and access to running water. The buildings of the estate consisted of over 50 two-storey houses, traditionally made from red bricks "familoki". The shape of the estate appointed by the geometric arrangement of buildings and streets designed to be symmetrical and balanced.
The northern part of the estate, of a better standard and a different form, was intended for senior staff.
Currently, Borsigwerk is one of the most unique of the patronage settlements (build by plant or mine owner for its workers) on Upper Silesia, however less known than Nikiszowiec and Giszowiec settlements in Katowice.
Source: Wikipedia (in Polish). Sorry for awkward translation
piątek, 10 lipca 2009
Familok - by offspring
Ola as usually made single photo. Quite good for 3.5yo, isn't it? (Ok, she also wanted to shoot ladybird with mummy's help, but after that she made the flowers completely unaided and instantly run away)
Bozywerek revisited
Another visit and B&W look at Borsig settlement (some more info in Polish)
Old cemetery:
Inside the "familok" (red brick house for worker's families):
Doors:
Cemetery again:
Old cemetery:
Inside the "familok" (red brick house for worker's families):
Doors:
Cemetery again:
niedziela, 5 lipca 2009
Cracow - Sukiennice
Sukiennice (Cloth house) is a trading house in the middle of Cracow Market Square. There are still merchants inside.
piątek, 3 lipca 2009
Cracow is waiting...
..for tourists.
1st of July we were on short visit in Cracow - one of oldest and biggest cities of Poland, former capital and residence of kings, and currently popular tourist location. At the beginning of holidays all is prepared for tourists invasion - hackney carriages on the famous Old-town Market Square...
... and town-seeing tour vehicles...
However, lots of guests are already here - some of them have uncommon look.
Celebrities are also in place (Jerzy Połomski, polish singer, during preparation for evening concert given at the balcony at Small Market was greeting his fans)
1st of July we were on short visit in Cracow - one of oldest and biggest cities of Poland, former capital and residence of kings, and currently popular tourist location. At the beginning of holidays all is prepared for tourists invasion - hackney carriages on the famous Old-town Market Square...
... and town-seeing tour vehicles...
However, lots of guests are already here - some of them have uncommon look.
Celebrities are also in place (Jerzy Połomski, polish singer, during preparation for evening concert given at the balcony at Small Market was greeting his fans)
czwartek, 2 lipca 2009
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