sailing vessels and in 1828 purchasing the first steamboat in Poland. Among his most profitable enterprises was a courier service around Poland. He travelled to England, France and the German states to study [...] in the region. He laid the foundations for later industrialisation in several parts of what is now Poland. His family traded in spices at Kraków. After his father died when he was 13 he studied commerce [...] between Kraków and Katowice. In 1825 he sold some earlier business and moved to Warsaw in Russian Poland. This became the centre of his empire as he invested his capital in several different sectors and

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF POLAND Listen Industrialisation within the territory of today’s Poland was extremely disparate as repeated partitioning of this nation occurred during the decisive 150 years [...] During those years, parts of today’s Poland belonged to the neighbouring powers, and their development varied correspondingly. The largest of these was "Congress Poland" with Warsaw as its capital, a construct [...] triggered a new crisis. Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Poland World Atlas: The biggest industries in Poland? Chorzow. Königshütte Ironworks

about the mechanised textile industries in several parts of Europe and took his knowledge to Łodz in Poland. The factory he built there in 1855 was one of the biggest in the world, covering 168 hectares. The [...] flax industries were built, notably by Wendisch in 1827 and Gayers in 1835. However, tariffs between Poland and Russia caused the industries to decline. When tariffs were removed in 1851 it was an opportunity [...] European revolutions of 1848 he decided to look towards the more stable conditions in Russia and Poland where his uncle had a factory at Ozorków, 20 kilometres from Łodz. When his uncle died, he took over

In the early industrialisation of Poland, Henryk Łubieński was a central figure. He was behind the creation of many diverse industrial enterprises from the 1820s to the 1840s, especially through his work [...] work with the national bank of Poland. Łubieński came from a wealthy landowning family. He was born in Prague and studied law in Warsaw and Paris. He acquired estates in several regions and explored op [...] them and the estates of his father and brothers. He was a founding director of the national bank of Poland in 1829 and its vice-president in 1832. The bank took a strategic role in industrial policy and directly

retained memories of going to market with his father in a horse-drawn cart. He was aged 18 in 1939 when Poland was invaded by the armies of the Third Reich and the USSR. He fled from his native country on a Red [...] returned to action and ended the war with his regiment. He was warned by his father not to return to Poland where the Communist government was hostile to those who had fought in the West, and returned to Britain [...] retirement in 1982, sustaining two severe injuries while working underground. He twice returned to Poland with his wife, on the first occasion, in 1964, driving all the way in his Morris 1100 car. An account

streets of the only post-industrial settlement in Europe that has been 95% preserved. Żyrardów, Poland’s former flax capital, delights visitors with the richness unexpected in such a small town of its [...] one of the largest churches in Mazovia; the Ochronka, the oldest functioning day-care centre in Poland, dating back to 1875; Resursa with its dazzling theatre/ballroom; the villa of Karl Dittrich, Jr

During the period of the Second Polish Republic (officially the Republic of Poland, which existed from 1918 until the invasion of Nazi Germany in 1939), efforts were made to establish new industrial and [...] COP) was established in 1936-39 on the basis of raw material deposits in the southern regions of Poland in order to increase the country's industrial production, modernise the infrastructure of the densely

"Żyrardów". Till the end of his stay in the Kingdom of Poland, Girard remained a technical advisor in industrial undertakings of the Bank of Poland for Count Henryk Łubieński (sugar factory in Guzów), Gen [...] steam ship on the Danube River. Inventions of de Girard were quickly recognized in the Kingdom of Poland. On 13th July 1825 an agreement was signed with Girard for establishment of a flax spinning mill [...] On 1st August 1825 Philippe de Girard was appointed by the Minister of Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland, Prince Drucki-Lubecki to the position of Chief Mechanic at the Mining Department of the Government

history. When it first went online in 1907 as the second largest power station in the Kingdom of Poland, the site became a driving force behind industrialisation. It remained the city's most important [...] emerging industrial city of Łódź, the ‘White Factory’ was the first fully-fledged textile mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most [...] of railway enthusiasts, who have, among other things, carefully restored 40 steam locomotives from Poland, Germany, England and the United States. The Southern Railway, completed in 1857, went down in railway

whose lives were changed utterly by the Second World War. He was born at Tuchola near Bydgoszcz in Poland, the son of a farmer, and expected to train as a carpenter, but at the age of about seventeen was [...] he left to work for a company making brake linings for motor vehicles. He returned many times to Poland, but had made his home in Wales. He nevertheless enjoyed the advances in technology that made it

produced bridges in iron and later in steel for sites in France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and French colonial North Africa. Many were major constructions, for example the 160-m Asnières [...] company designed and constructed railways in France and in countries including Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, Algeria and Senegal. In 1871 it became a joint-stock company with enlarged capital by the name of

Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine [...] Welcome to our new members: São Pedro da Cova (Portugal), São Pedro da Cova Mining Museum Warsaw (Poland), Museum Station Freudenberg (Germany), Freudenberg Technical Museum Iglesias (Italy), Santa Barbara [...] funding… more 15-12-2024 | German Journal Industriekultur 4.24 presents four ERIH Anchor Points in Poland and Switzerland Attendees of this year's ERIH Annual Conference are well acquainted with these two…

the area at a depth of 370 m. The company supplies limestone to the rest of Finland and to Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states. The Finnish lift (elevator) manufacture Kone uses the mines for testing and

Godula) was a pioneer of the industrial revolution in Silesia - then in Prussia but today part of Poland. He developed mining for coal and zinc in the region and built the largest industrial empire of the [...] states. Godulla’s family were farmers in Upper Silesia and he attended grammar schools at Rudy (now in Poland) and Opava (now in Czechia). In 1801 he was given a job on the estates of Count von Ballestrem. He

Harrachov operated from 1957 until 1992 in the mountains on the present border of the Czech Republic and Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included fluorite, barytes, galena

Kolochava is in the south-west of Ukraine, about 100 km from the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. This small railway museum among the ridges of the Carpathian mountains aims to save surviving

This narrow-gauge railway on the border of Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic extends for 10.5km from the town of Zittau, where it joins the Zittau–Heřmanice narrow-gauge railway, to the spa towns of

Wola Karsznice is a strategic rail junction on the 430-km ‘coal line’ completed in the 1930s across Poland from the coalfield of Upper Silesia to the Baltic port of Gdynia. The Open-Air Museum of Locomotives

Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), founded in 1990, is the largest electricity generator in Poland with 40 power stations and two lignite (brown coal) mines. Its Bełchatów lignite power station is one of

will address the above questions based on case studies from Germany, Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, and Poland. The topics cover climate change, water management as well as sustainability in the textile sector