ruda bugaj, central poland, PL

we have spent the 90th birthday with my mother-in-law and xmas celebration in ruda bugaj, a village near alexandrow lodzki + lodz with closest family in poland. NICE 😍

our stops in PL this time?

• wojanow castle (schloß schildau) in lower silesia, PL
• lodz, central poland => enjoy especially the pictures from the interactive museum of technics and science located in an old coal electric power plant very close to the recently modernized train station fabryczna (factory / fabrik) below
• ruda bugaj / alexandrow lodzki, central poland
• leba at the baltic sea ...coming soon ...
• moszna castle close to opole (oppeln), upper silesia ...coming soon ...

alexandrow lodzki

the catholic church + old wooden houses in alexandrow lodzki

evangelic church

city park

there is no real industry in alexandrow lodzki. at least there

is awe, a small local tights (strumpfhosen) producer

alexandrow lodzki

there are still few wooden houses where people live today...

lodz-fabryczna

lodz, museum of technics and science inside an old power plant

lodz, museum of technics and science. view at the coal bowl bottom up

lodz-fabryczna

some appartment buildings ruins in lodz-fabryczna

the upgraded train station lodz-fabryczna

even if there is no aboveground river in lodz today, waste amounts of water

was the catalyzer for the development of its textile industry some 200 years

ago back then under russian administration. thus a boat 🚣 is still a symbol

of lodz and lodz is called polish manchester by many folks out there ...

lodz - baluty

holy mass in a local suburb church in lodz - baluty

good-bye, lodz - baluty

the bzura creek close to the village ruda-bugaj

two of us exploring the surroundings far away from regular paths.

btw, why not the well-trodden roads instead? well, let's say it with the words

of my blogger buddy alex: what attracts the masses (often) discourages me -

- both, contentual and extrinsic 

there are hools in ruda bugaj, too?

security protected suburbs of the new rich in alexandrow lodzki / ruda bugaj

our 90th birthday + xmas table 😄🌲💖

few more pictures here.

lodz, PL, 2018 and 1993

we have been already many, many, many, many times to lodz visiting my wife's family... look what an album created google automatically here

the former poznanski's factory site is the beautiful shopping & leisure center manufaktura 'manufa' today

this time we have dared to jump into the city's historical museum in the poznanski palace. yes, it was a really nice experience. it was so crazy to learn that in 1820 had lodz only 767 inhabitants and thanks to rapid development of the textile industry (especially under russian administration) in 1914 almost half a million and before WWII already 670,00 ... unbelievable. there were poles, germans, jews and russian folks (+ few french and english industrialists too) living close to each other and in peace ...
that was probably also the time when in germany arised the folk song 'theo, we go to lodz' (theo, wir fahren nach lodsch)

lodz 💓

our last (longer) visit to lodz was at all hollows, so have have concentrated our attention on the cemeteries. enjoy especially the pictures from the combined catholic / protestant / orthodox cemetery close to the manufactura site here. this time i've visited the jewish cemetery in the northern part of the lodz. beside really old graves there are also many commemorative plaques for the victims of the litzmannstadt ghetto from WWII. so sad :-((

the jewish cemetery ~ izrael poznanski's mausoleum

 city history musuem in the poznanski palace:

 the rooms inside the poznanski palace 

what about going 26 years back? well, the best of all wives and myself have been at the sylvester party 1993 in the poznanski palace :o)

1993 💕

 good-bye, poznanski's palace

back to 2018. poznanski's manufactura

plac wolnosci, the main city square and begin of the piotrkowska street

piotrkowska street 

looking for piece of land in alexandrow, a village next to lodz

wtf?

enjoy more pictures here.

what about the mosaic of our whole journey?

• lodz
• poznan
• tuczno 
• dziwnow at the baltic sea 
• kamien pomorski  
• oranienbaum-wörlitz

btw, enjoy our former winter visit to lodz with some snow here

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