Presentation of Poland for Project "Let's reveal secrets of european gardens"

3. Staromiejski
Marketplace
At this place
in 1423 Lodz was
established

4. Janusz was a man, who sailed on the river
Struga, today which is called Lodka,
from Leczyca province. He used to live
under the boat and that is why the name
of our city came from. He sxtarted his
family there and his grandsons built the
town – Lodz.

6. crest from 1915 r
Emblem from1917
Current crest
Seal from 1577
There were a few crests in 588 year history of the town. At the end of 1933 the city
council announced the contest for the new crest of Lodz, but it wasn’t settled and
it was decided to leave the same sign as it is on the seal from 1577.

8. The city became the
province in 1919. We’ve
got a new province
crest for 9 years. It
consists of the former
crests of lands which
now are gathered in the
province.
Crest from 1928
Crest from 2002

9. The province has got 2 flags since 2002 .

10. 
The Liberty Square – is
the central square in
Lodz. It was
constructed as a new
marketplace in 1823. It
was built in a very
unusual shape of
eightangle and it was
called a New Market.
Since 1919 it has a
name of The Liberty
Square.

16. Picture from 1853
It is the oldest preserved church in Lodz. In 1888 it was
moved to another place by cart sbecause the city
became bigger and bigger.

17. Nowadays this larch church is located on Ogrodowa
street.

18. For many years Lodz was a
mulitcultural city. In the photo
there is an Orthodox church in
bisantic style (XIX c)

19. In XIX century there wer
more than 100 thousand
Jews. There is a sybagoge
which Nazists burnt in 1939

20. Most of lodz manufacturers were
German and Protestants. There is an
evangelical st. Matheo Church
(beginning of XX c.), where
harmoniocal concerts are organized

21. Nowadays the major
population of the city is
Roman Catholic. The
biggest church is the
Cathedra st. Stanislaw
Kostka which was built in
the beginnning of XX
century in neogothic style.

22. The most significant street
was before a track from
Leczyca to Piotrkow and
from this track it took its
name. Lodz habitant
call it
Pietryna, Pietruchą. An
interesting part of the
street are utility
monuments you can sit
on.
In the photo there is a
„Tuwim’s bench” and a
typical rickshaw.

23. The monument of Lodz Manufacturers. A lot of business
agreements has been signed at the table.

24. Lampman .
Piotrkowska Street
was lightened by oil
lamps in XIX century.

25. Rubinstein’s piano. You can hear excellent piano
music after throwing the coin.

26. the Town Hall
There are a lot of cafes and
pubs on the street

27. Lodz became a textile
centre in XIX century. The
oldest facotry is Ludwik
Gayer’s „White Factory” .
Now there is a „Textile
Museum” and a scansen
of an urban develoment
from XIX century – the only
one in Poland

30. This is the
biggest factory
in Lodz. Here is
the factory from
1890.

31. 5 years ago the factory
was rebuilt and
renovated. Now it is
Manufaktura, the
biggest shopping and
entertaining center in
Poland. During the
renovation all factory
buildings and traditional
structures has been
preserved and joined
with new technologies.

34. Photos from mid XIX

35. There is City Lodz Museum in
Poznanski’s Palace nowadays

36. Workers lived in
famuly, built near
the factories
 They were founded
by the richest
manufacturers:
Scheibler, Grohma
nn oraz Poznański.


37. Famul is a familiy
house with three or
four floors and
common staircases
and toilets.
 Avarage flat has got
35 m2 i and consists of
1 room, the kitchen
and the pantry


38. The oldest Lodz Graveyard is „The
Old Cementary” on Ogrodowa
street. It is divided into 3 parts:
orthodox, protestant i catholic.
There is a photo of Karol
Scheibler’s thomb and his factory
above where very modern
apartments are settled down now
.

39. The Old Cementary.
There is a
Gojżewski’s grave in
the chapel. One
part of the grave is
on the orthodox
part and another on
catholic because
they belonged to
different regions.

40. There is only one such
place in Europe. There
were burried about 200
thousand Jewish people
important for the city.
In part called„Getto
Field” there were burried
about 43 000 casualties
of Lodz getho.

41. Izrael Poznanski’s
thumb is placed in
this graveyard.

42. In Lodz there is a Star
Alley where we can
see a lot of stars of
Polish directors, actors
and operators such as
Andrzej Wajda.

43. There is also the
best film
university in
Poland. There
are educated
future
actors, director
s and directors
of
photography.

44. A lot of films and cartoons
are made in Lodz. The most
popular and well-known is
Uszatek TeddyBear made in
SE-MA-FOR.

45. The biggest Garden Park is also
in Lodz.There are a lot of
beautiful flowers but also the
collection of sundials.

46. For 500 years the city was
surrounded by a big forest.
The rest of it is called
Lagiewnicki Forest where are
2 chapels located - St.
Anthony and st. Roch. There
is also a stream from which a
healthy water leaks.. There is
also Monastery from XVII c.
and a stud farm from XIX c.