"Beauty of nature everywhere crowd there to our eye. I envy people who have so actively, so laboriously, with such industry and perseverance, using the treasures of the complex there on the ground and her womb, every twist of the land, every valley, which resides, is trying to enrich, enhance and decorate. "
wrote of the land Walbrzych in his essay "The meeting in Salzbrunn" in 1872 a man named Joseph Korzeniowski, known in our history, literature, author of acclaimed novels "Kollokacja.
It belongs to a large galaxy of Polish bathers - writers, activists, scholars of the second half of the nineteenth century, for which Szczawno the then-Zdrój became a favorite meeting place, and enthusiasm. By combining the useful with a pleasant, came here for a whole host of health improvement, but for the comfort of staying in close touch with the beauty of nature and what human hand has created.
writes about with great transfer of a resident Szczawno sorely missed, his lover and admirer, Dr. Alphonse Szyperski in the book "The Poles in the former and the Old Szczawno Zdrój" :
"To Szczawno the" Valley of Józefat ", as it H. Cegielski called if the call of the angelic trumpets downloading pilgrims from near and far, from Prussia, Polish, Russia, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Palestine, the Americas, pulled the top Chełmiec as Muhammad - kings, dignitaries, lay and clergy, artists, magnates, nobles and burghers, soldiers of the highest rank and students, activists and poets. "
Szyperski what I lists the names of famous Poles zacniejsze who signed up in the books of the sanatorium patients, thus leaving a lasting, an essential trace its existence in szczawieńskim resort.
This figure was Hippolytus Cegielski, a young scholar and a journalist from Poznan, who later became an industrialist, describing his impressions of good "in the local waters" in Poznan, "Literary Weekly:
" philosophers and peasants, generals and the simple, Catholics and Jews, old and young, male sex and beauty, all this with faith gave a cup, and four people from the small wells drawing abundantly all nalewało health. "
"Medieval castle on a steep mountain forest is among the ascendant gives us a faithful picture of contemporary manners. In the hall we found a young ruddy Ślązaczkę the winged bonnet and kusej clothing that the bunch of keys in his hand as cicerone offered to serve us. ... And again:
"Szczawno juvenile is still in bloom. As rapid progress since its place is a discovery made, testify to the beauty of the gallery walks, lounges, shops, homes fairly comfortable, considerable number and after the top of a beautiful meandering walks ... A high tower of the old restored urwiny is like a time-measurement kuracyją taking. Ubiegłość indicating the time clock is heard on all sides, constantly amending the steps prescribed by a doctor warns. The view from this tower is a very picturesque waters Szczawno I did not give due tribute. "
separate card in the history of the spa enrolled social activists and revolutionaries, using the pretext of treatment "at the waters" to be able to freely conduct calls. Police Prussian was not able to stop it. In 1843 the land Wałbrzych appears Edward Dembowski, journalist and activist revolutionary, organizer of the uprising in 1846 in Krakow and a popular leader. Here he had the opportunity to get to know the next Szczawno Walbrzych mines and surrounding Jedlina-Zdrój, and Książ, Kowary and around Jelenia Gora.
This whole neighborhood, said Dembowski, where there is a multitude of mineral waters and excellent factory, is truly rich, and next to this very charming.
the bathing season 1845 years Szczawno gathered for many Poles, confronted the leaders meeting here insurgent with three partitions: Count Adolf Bobrowski, Alexander Brudzewski, Wladyslaw Kosinski and important Valentine Stefanski, member National Committee in Poznan, the creator of the Association Plebeians, the most powerful, secret organization under Prussian rule. It is precisely here, in German Salzbrunn discussed preparations for armed resistance, whose aim was to regain independence for Poland, so the return of Silesia to the Motherland. Such a goal that the emergence wielkopolskiemu późnij three years during the Spring of Nations in 1848.
In 1858, she fell to Zdroj Narcissus Zmichowska, participant in revolutionary movements years 1846 and 1848, then imprisoned for three years in Lublin. As she recalls the Szczawno came not for the health of rescue: "I do salcbruńskie water are unnecessary najszanowniejszy my doctor, who I mainly for a passport wystarania dopomagał clearly when boarding the coach admonished again, I did not use them." The real reason for coming was political contacts with Elżanowskim Seweryn, political activist and conspirator Spring of Nations period and the January Uprising, a prisoner with Mierosławskim Moabit. How
Dr. Szyperski says: "If szczawieńską chronicle summarize some recurring names of Poles, three wymienilibyśmy still present on printed columns of a well-deserved name: Lucjan Siemiński, Hippolytus and Paulina Wilkowska Cegielski. The trio settled in the Mountains Wałbrzyskie for good, and Mrs. Pauline can be regarded as the mother of Mrs. Szczawno. "
mentioned above, the author of the Carpathian mountain people ", Jozef Korzeniowski, Zygmunt Krasinski teacher and librarian, a professor of poetry and classical philology in Kremenets and Kiev, enthused Gediminas Hill, favorite place for strolling visitors and residents Szczawno Walbrzych:
"lies really high and has beautiful views all around. Who is the first time, from place to throw a look around, uczuje be abundantly rewarded for the effort somewhat tedious walk ... You can look far to sink, until the city Strzegom. "
Gediminas Hill to this day has lost none of its uniqueness. Viewed from below inspire you wonderful forest mosaic and colored facades of houses arranged on a slope and immersed in lush nature. And just when you reach the top. Should not be allowed to speak ill of any malcontent Walbrzych, who had never bothered to that hill and looked from this perspective to a vast, varied and beautiful panorama of the city surrounded by forests and mountains. Especially now, when I do not pollute the air Wałbrzyskie former coking plants, coal mines and boiler rooms, and there looms over the town ever kotłującego trail of smoke.
"Somebody else's praise, do not know her, we do not know what you have, "it rhymed proverb suggests itself when we hear the lamentations and eternal krytykanckie opinions on Walbrzych, where nothing but filth, stench and misery. Instrumental in contributing to the media, "champions of truth and objectivity", who usually see only Wałbrzych on the map. It is known that the city is much neglected, that for many years the People's Republic was primarily a place of life achievements of German hosts, although we can not turn a blind eye to the fact from scratch to build a large residential districts - Sand Mountain and bailey. Pride should accompany us when we watch from the windows of newly-built car factories in the Free Economic Zone. It is such investments and places in Walbrzych of progress and development of much, much more.
Unfortunately, we can not take care of a competent, objective image of the city, his good name. We must start from ourselves, personally willing to be persuaded, and further ensure an effective, modern promotion
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