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Sunday, December 30, 2018

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?

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

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

lodz

enjoy few impressions from lodz, poland :-)

if you asked me, poland and also the preceding textile industry city of LODZ (= the 'polish manchester' which was first mentioned in 1322 but become big and an important industrial center only in 19th century) develops economically very well recently. there are new highways, so we needed this time with 2 short breaks only 9 hours by car from munich. the old bake stone industrial sites turns into shopping centers, pubs, offices, art galleries, ... even the prices for food + drinks are quite high almost everywhere in the city center (especially in the beautiful shopping and leisure centre manufaktura, which was build in izrael poznanski's old textile factory grounds ....

piotr szczesny (1963 - 2017) ~ i love freedom over all

even if our older family members like the ruling party PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość = law and justice) because of its support for families (very high children's allowance) and its anti corruption proceeds against former government members, there are also many people concerned about the dwindling democracy in poland. by coincidence we also joined a demonstration concerning the suicide of Piotr S. who burned himself few days ago in warsaw as a protest against the swindling freedom due to PiS politics and listened to his farewell letter the demonstrators read loud in the ulica piotrkowska, which is the main street in lodz.

my 3 women always like to visit the ptak outlet center :-)

all saints + all hollows? here we are at the first and not so nice cemetery

tomb of karl scheibler (textile magnate) at the protestant cemetery in lodz

the old central cemetery contains beside the protestant part also a roman catholic and an orthodox part, so it is really interesting place to visit. just see few nice tombs below