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Karol Anstadt Avenue, Łódź
Karol Anstadt Avenue (Polish: ''Aleja Karola Anstadta'') is a short, approximately 200-meter-long street located in the northern part of Łódź's district, within the area. It connects to and leads directly to Helenów Park in Łódź, Helenów Park, a historic park established in the 1880s by the Anstadt family. The avenue is named after , a 19th-century Łódź entrepreneur and founder of nearby landmarks, including a brewery. The avenue supports two-way traffic with a single lane in each direction. It is designated as a municipal road and is a one-lane street throughout its length. The avenue falls under the jurisdiction of the . History 1885–1939 The Karol Anstadt Avenue, measuring 210 meters in length, was likely established as a private road between 1885 and 1890. It is absent from the February 1887 list of Łódź streets but appears unnamed on a map of the city layout circa 1890. The avenue was designed to provide easier access to the private Helenów Park in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łódź
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Poland, fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in the 14th century. It was granted city rights, town rights in 1423 by the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian Empire, Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1850) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population owing to the inflow of migrants, a sizable part of which were Jews and Germans. Ever since the industrialization of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Jaracz Theatre
The Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź, Poland is the oldest theatre in the Łódź Voivodeship, region. It is a Repertory, repertory theatre subordinate to the Marshall Office of the Łódź Voivodeship. During the years 1888-1949 (when the theatre chose Stefan Jaracz as its patron) it was known as the Polish Theatre and the City Theatre. Beginnings (1888–1918) The theatre opened on November 6, 1888 in the "Victoria" Building (currently a cinema). One Lucjan Kościelecki made notable efforts to bring the theatre to life. The first premiere was a staging of Kazimierz Zalewski's ''Apfels' Matrimony''. The building situated at Piotrkowska Street served as the theatre's base till May 5, 1909 - when it completely burned down in a fire. The theatre's director - Aleksander Zelwerowicz (who ran the theatre between 1909 and 1911) - moved the company and crew to a Architectural structure, structure at Jaracza Street (then named Cegielniana Street) where it resides to this day. During Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of National Remembrance
The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and Lustration in Poland, lustration powers. The IPN was established by the Polish parliament by the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance of 18 December 1998 through reforming and expanding the earlier Main Commission for the ''Investigation'' of Crimes against the Polish Nation of 1991, which itself had replaced the General Commission for Research on Fascist Crimes, a body established in 1945 focused on investigating the crimes of the Nazi administration in Poland during World War II. In 2018, IPN's mission statement was amended by the controversial Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance to include "protecting the reputation of the Republic of Poland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Law In Poland
Martial law in Poland () existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983. The Polish United Workers' Party, government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted everyday life by introducing martial law and a military junta in an attempt to counter political opposition, in particular the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement. Since the late 1970s, Poland had been in a deep economic recession. Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), had obtained a series of large loans from foreign creditors to achieve better economic output. This instead resulted in a domestic crisis. Essential goods were heavily rationing, rationed, which acted as a stimulus to establishing the first anticommunist trade union in the Eastern Bloc, known as Solidarity (), in 1980. Gierek, who permitted the trade union to appear per the Gdańsk Agreement, was dismissed from his post less than a month later and confined to house arrest. Following countl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Invasion Of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subsequent military operations lasted for the following 20 days and ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division is sometimes called the Fourth Partition of Poland. The Soviet (as well as German) invasion of Poland was indirectly indicated in the "secret protocol" of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed on 23 August 1939, which divided Poland into "spheres of influence" of the two powers. German and Soviet cooperation in the invasion of Poland has been described as co-belligerence. The Red Army, which vastly outnumbered the Polish defenders, achieved its targets, encountering only limited resistance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Gryniewicz
Wojciech Gryniewicz (born 1946) is a Polish sculptor. Biography He graduated from State High School fine arts in Bydgoszcz and then studied at the Sculpture Department of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Gryniewicz was a student of Alfred Wiśniewski and Adam Smolana. Monuments * Julian Tuwim Monument in Łódź (bronze), (1999) * Monument to Jan Nowak-Jeziorański in Warsaw (bronze), (2006) * School bench in Warsaw (bronze), 2006 * Monument to the victims of Communism in Łódź (bronze), 2009 * Father Jan Twardowski Monument in Warsaw (bronze), (2013) Television *2012: TVP- "Łódź kreatywna – WOJCIECH GRYNIEWICZ" Prizes * 1975: Monument "Obrońcom Helu"– I Prize Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) * 1985: "Ochrona zabytków Krakowa"– I Prize * 2003: Monument to Julian Tuwim ("Ławeczka Tuwima")- The Best Art Sculptures 2003 – I Prize * 2005: Monument to Julian Tuwim ("Ławeczka Tuwima")- Prize Poland's Travel, Ministry of Culture a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
