ruda-bugaj /// poland 02-2020

my father-in-law was 90 years old and his granddaughter (not daughters!) organized his probably first bigger birthday party ever. in poland used the people to celebrate name days rather than birthdays, you know? it was somehow strange and at same time interesting for me to see how the family lead moved from my mother-in-law to her grandchildren. well, the strong old lady was overwhelming for many, many years and gave no chance her daughters to participate reasonable, wasn't she? today is the eldest granddaughter in duty to inherit her role 😉
my polish family is somehow similar to the english royal family, wouldn't you say? the queen also will supposedly forward her crown to her eldest grandchild prince william instead of her son prince charles, won't she? 😄

all in one collage 

well, we have been in poland for 4 days and our stops were wroclaw (breslau) / ruda-bugaj / ustronie / grotniki / alexandrow lodzki / lodz (lodsch) / legnica ➤➤➤ enjoy few pictures (of course no faces involved, as the most family members probably don't want to appear on the internet) 😍

highway bridge in wroclaw / breslau

ruda-bugaj

abandoned brickyard (ziegelfabrik) in ruda-bugaj

still in ruda bugaj

the forest in ustronie + grotniki

empty, to sell and to enter at own risk ...

the former poznanski's textile factory and now shopping center manufaktura (manufa) in lodz

residential suburbs in lodz-baluty

alexandrow lodzki

lodz

lodz

legnica

more pictures here.

our former visit to lodz 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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