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Mines in New Roles: Saturn in Czeladź, Szyb Wilson, the Culture Zone and Guido Industria i technika
Mines in New Roles: Saturn in Czeladź, Szyb Wilson, the Culture Zone and Guido
When a mine stops extracting coal, its buildings are given new tasks: a gallery, a museum, a culture centre or an underground route. We lead through Czeladź, Katowice, Zabrze and Rybnik, and also show places that are still waiting for an idea.
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Nikiszowiec: how the estate by the Nickisch shaft was built Industria i technika
Nikiszowiec: how the estate by the Nickisch shaft was built
Nikiszowiec was built in 1908-1919 right next to the Nickisch shaft of the Giesche mine, to a design by Emil and Georg Zillmann. The article shows how the mine determined the layout of the estate, and points to the nearby Wilson shaft, which has a separate history.
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: The Steam Engine, the Blast Furnace and the Beginnings of the Industrial Basin Industria i technika
Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: The Steam Engine, the Blast Furnace and the Beginnings of the Industrial Basin
The Prussian mining official Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden brought to Upper Silesia a steam engine, a coke blast furnace and the engineer John Baildon. His decisions began Tarnowskie Góry as a centre of technology, the Gliwice foundry and Królewska Huta.
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Ruda Śląska: The Ficinus Colony in Wirek and Electric Light in Ruda Industria i technika
Ruda Śląska: The Ficinus Colony in Wirek and Electric Light in Ruda
The Ficinus Colony in Wirek is sixteen sandstone houses for miners from the 1860s. It is linked with Ruda, where according to Wikipedia electric lighting was installed in 1889, only by the fact that both now lie in one town.
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The Industrial Monuments Route: where it came from, what it includes and how it works Industria i technika
The Industrial Monuments Route: where it came from, what it includes and how it works
The Industrial Monuments Route links several dozen industrial heritage sites from Częstochowa to Żywiec. It was created by a resolution of 2005, opened in 2006, and since 2010 has been part of the European ERIH network.
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Szombierki Power Station: architecture, the Siemens clock and its fate after 1945 Industria i technika
Szombierki Power Station: architecture, the Siemens clock and its fate after 1945
Three chimneys, a tower with a four-sided clock and a design by the Zillmann brothers: the power station in Bytom-Szombierki, opened in 1920, was initially meant to be a gunpowder factory. What is known about its construction, the Siemens clock, the dismantling in 1945 and the years after its closure.
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The Black Trout Adit: how the Tarnowskie Góry silver mines were drained Industria i technika
The Black Trout Adit: how the Tarnowskie Góry silver mines were drained
The lead and silver mines of Tarnowskie Góry fought water from the very beginning. First horses and a steam engine helped, then the Deep Frederick Adit was built, a section of which in Ptakowice can be travelled by boat today.
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Water towers of Silesia: from Giszowiec to Zabrze and Będzin-Grodziec Industria i technika
Water towers of Silesia: from Giszowiec to Zabrze and Będzin-Grodziec
In Upper Silesia water towers supplied mines, zinc works, miners' estates and railway stations. Some of them are now museums or viewpoints, others stand disused. A survey of eight towers from Giszowiec to Racibórz.
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Załęże: the Charlotte and Cleophas mines and the Baildon steelworks Industria i technika
Załęże: the Charlotte and Cleophas mines and the Baildon steelworks
In the 19th century Załęże was one of the most important industrial settlements of present-day Katowice. The Charlotte and Cleophas mines and the Baildon steelworks grew up here, and the Giesche company built a power plant and a water supply next to Cleophas.
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Zawiercie: the train of 1847, factories and a town charter in 1915 Industria i technika
Zawiercie: the train of 1847, factories and a town charter in 1915
The first train stopped in Zawiercie in 1847, then came ironworks and factories. The factory settlement had over 30,000 inhabitants before it became a town. A walk through parks, Kromołów and the traces of the Jewish community.
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Żywiec: the Habsburgs and the Archducal Brewery Industria i technika
Żywiec: the Habsburgs and the Archducal Brewery
In 1838 Żywiec was bought by an archduke of the Cieszyn line of the Habsburgs, and in 1856 a brewery was founded here that is still the town's calling card. The history of the dynasty, castles and maturing cellars in a single walk around Żywiec.
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