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Looking at the ghosts of history...

Łódź, Księży Młyn

The factory and residential complex on the Jasień River was built in the 19th century by Karol Scheibler, the richest industrialist in Łódź. It was a self-sufficient city within a city modeled on English industrial settlements. There were factory buildings here, e.g. a huge, castle-like spinning mill, warehouses, famuły (workers' houses), a school, a fire station, two hospitals, a gasworks, a factory club, konsumy (shops), owners' residences, as well as a railway siding. All this is planned along simple cobbled streets and architecturally coherent.

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Uploaded on January 8, 2023
Taken on January 7, 2023