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Barbórka: where the miners' holiday comes from, the leap over the leather and the beer tavern Industria i technika
Barbórka: where the miners' holiday comes from, the leap over the leather and the beer tavern
Barbórka falls on 4 December, the feast of St Barbara, patron saint of miners. Some of its rites, such as the beer tavern, are much younger than is commonly believed, and the leap over the leather came from Leoben.
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Cieszyn on the Industrial Monuments Route: the Castle Brewery and the Printing Museum Industria i technika
Cieszyn on the Industrial Monuments Route: the Castle Brewery and the Printing Museum
Two places in Cieszyn lie on the Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship: a brewery built into the slope of Castle Hill and a small museum in a former printing house. Both have kept equipment from the time when craft was turning into industry.
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Zinc in Upper Silesia: from Ruhberg's smelting in 1792 to the rolling mill in Szopienice Industria i technika
Zinc in Upper Silesia: from Ruhberg's smelting in 1792 to the rolling mill in Szopienice
The first successful smelting of zinc in Upper Silesia is attributed to Johann Christian Ruhberg and the date 1792. In the 19th and early 20th centuries zinc was rolled into sheet in Szopienice, Lipiny and Sławków, and some of these works can be visited today.
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Giszowiec: a Garden Estate for the Miners of the Giesche Concern Industria i technika
Giszowiec: a Garden Estate for the Miners of the Giesche Concern
Giszowiec was built in 1907-1910 as a garden estate for the miners of the Giesche concern, designed by the Berlin architects the Zillmann brothers. Why the concern built low houses, what was demolished in the 1970s and what can be seen on a walk through the district.
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Upper Silesian Narrow-Gauge Railways: 785 mm of Track Between Mines and Ironworks Industria i technika
Upper Silesian Narrow-Gauge Railways: 785 mm of Track Between Mines and Ironworks
A network of 785 mm gauge lines linked the mines, ironworks and factories of Upper Silesia in the 19th century, reached 233 km in the mid-20th century, and two sections survive today. Why the dates of the beginning differ, how the 1922 border cut the network and what remains.
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Guido and Queen Louise: The Underground Routes of the Coal Mining Museum Industria i technika
Guido and Queen Louise: The Underground Routes of the Coal Mining Museum
In Zabrze you can go underground in two places: at the Guido mine, founded by a magnate in the hope of coking coal, and at the Queen Louise Adit, where an underground channel drained a state mine. Both sites are run by one museum.
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Częstochowa Steelworks: from the Hantke Works of 1896 to the Heavy Plate Mill Industria i technika
Częstochowa Steelworks: from the Hantke Works of 1896 to the Heavy Plate Mill
The steelworks in Raków was built in 1896-1902 as the raw-material base for the factories of the Bernard Hantke Company. In the 20th century it went through two wars, nationalisation and an expansion whose peak was the heavy plate mill of 1972.
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The Royal Ironworks in Chorzów: from Baildon to the Metallurgy Museum Industria i technika
The Royal Ironworks in Chorzów: from Baildon to the Metallurgy Museum
The Royal Ironworks, later the Kościuszko Steelworks, started up in Chorzów in 1802 to plans by John Baildon and gave rise to the town. Today its history and machines are shown by the Metallurgy Museum in the hall of the former power station.
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Huta Pokój in Ruda Śląska and the Sendzimir rolling mill Industria i technika
Huta Pokój in Ruda Śląska and the Sendzimir rolling mill
Huta Pokój in Nowy Bytom was founded in 1840 as a small works with a single blast furnace. In the 1930s it started up Tadeusz Sendzimir's rolling mill, regarded as one of the breakthrough inventions of metallurgy.
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Jaworzno: Szczakowa 1767 and the town of three power stations Industria i technika
Jaworzno: Szczakowa 1767 and the town of three power stations
According to Polish sources, Szczakowa, today a district of Jaworzno, had the first Polish hard coal mine, although they describe the dates and the continuity of its work differently. The text links the history of the mines, the railway and the three power stations with the places that remain after this industry.
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Workers' Colonies at Mines and Steelworks: Ficinus, Alfred, Kleofas, Emma, Zgorzelec Industria i technika
Workers' Colonies at Mines and Steelworks: Ficinus, Alfred, Kleofas, Emma, Zgorzelec
Before Giszowiec and Nikiszowiec, the owners of mines and steelworks built colonies of familoks for their workforces. An overview from Ficinus of 1860 to the three Bruno Taut colonies at the Wujek mine, described solely as housing development.
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Ignacy Historic Mine in Rybnik: From the Hoym Mine to a Science Centre Industria i technika
Ignacy Historic Mine in Rybnik: From the Hoym Mine to a Science Centre
The Hoym mine in Rybnik's Niewiadom was founded in 1792 and worked for more than two centuries. Today the saved steam engines, a viewing tower and a science centre make up one of the sites of the Industrial Monuments Route.
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