is that in Walbrzych Castle Street is not to say that there was or is a castle. Instead, he is worthy to see the palace of the powerful family Czettritzów. Also, do not look at the street market near the Town Hall, although common sense suggests that, as is the market should be a town hall leading to the street. Baroque wooden hall was erected in the market in 1731, but did not survive for too long, because only the year 1857. Then it was demolished, because he was not able to accommodate all the city councilors. Their headquarters became the present edifice of the Magistrates' Square.
Street Town Hall in Walbrzych find somewhere else - namely, the White Stone. How come, in this suburban district is the street? I think that as a City Hall, it is probably Hall, and as the town hall, it may be a separate town here.
can not deny the logic of this reasoning. And how turns out to be guided by this logic governing the Walbrzych region after the war in 1945, a provisional Polish authorities. White Stone received the city rights, cited the local authority with a mayor, and its headquarters became the imposing building called the Town Hall, nomen omen Street Town Hall.
I am aware that many listeners had caused consternation. We all know as a long-white stone road passable, built on both sides of the houses (now Gen. Anders street) that connects quite remote from the spa Sobięcin Szczawno-Zdroj. Administrative boundary between White Stone and Szczawne is not clear to this day, let alone in the postwar turmoil. And besides that predispositions authorized the then authorities to make the legacy of centuries of rural areas (because the white stone, in German Weisstein is almost the same age as the adjacent Waldenberg with him), an independent urban unit?
It turns out that these reasons were many. Former village looked nothing like the villages. Consisted of quite a lot, because about 17 thousand inhabitants. White Stone experienced an investment boom in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the Wałbrzych and its environs have become a major center of mining basin. In 1823 the mine was opened here, "Louise Charlotte", operated by the end of the nineteenth century. In 1870 merged with mine, "Fuchs" and gave 30 thousand per year. tons of ore. To strengthen followed by a subsequent merge with mine, "Emilie" to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to create a great company with the other mines of Walbrzych.
white stone was transformed into a mining district. Gone are the farm Agricultural and pens weavers, shot up like mushrooms multifamily buildings, large facilities and associated mining industry. Population grew rapidly. The population density exceeded all standards. Housing vibrant big city life, especially when we have launched, the railway and tram.
After the war he settled in White Stone resilient group of miners, returnees from France. They ran a ton of life of the mine and the town. Perhaps for this reason, mine is named after Julia 1945 "White Stone" and since 1950, "Thorez. It was one of four large coal mines in Wałbrzych. In the 70's, the annual production reached almost 700 thousand. tons, and employs more than 1,500 people. The last carriage of coal, he left it 30 September 1996, ending centuries of coal mining in the basin Walbrzych. In the old glass, Jan (training), opened the Museum of Industry and Technology Earth Wałbrzych, collect artifacts and objects associated with mining and its history. Similar exhibitions are designed in glass, "Bonfire" and "Julia" included in the museum ..
City White Stone did not survive too long. In 1951, they have been included to the area of \u200b\u200bWałbrzych. In this way the city of white stone found in the city of Wałbrzych. But in the 50s, such "operations" took place in the privacy of the party offices, city residents had nothing to say.
White Stone has a configuration adapted to the course of the valley Szczawnik. Most magnificent building is the parish church. George and Our Lady of the Rosary in the White Stone is one of the most valuable building in Walbrzych mine. It is created by the team said shafts "Julia" and "Bonfire", so called. glass "Sister" - now the headquarters of the Museum of Industry and Technology, ul. Wysocki.
At ul. Town Hall is a complex of sports facilities KS "Basin" from the sports stadium, an indoor swimming pool, other sports fields. Both the Museum of Industry and Technology, as well as the sports complex are covered by the urban investment programs, the effect of which is to be a modern multi-cultural park in a former coal mine, "Julia" and ultra modern sports complex with a water park on ul. Town Hall. It goes without saying that achieving these goals White Stone will give the district a new momentum and meaning.
This is what I said above, it is just a slice of interesting and surprising story of one of the mining district of Wałbrzych. Similar singularity is in Walbrzych more. Might be interested in the past each of the districts individually to understand the specificity of the whole city. the pages of history we learn how extraordinary fortunes accompanied its development. Wałbrzych is a typical agglomeration of several separate units of urbanization, each of which represents a cluster of a spontaneous city. Such a cluster is an old town with market and public facilities, trade and service, but also the New Town, Old-Zdroj, Sobięcin, Podgorze, grove, Szczawienko, Ruthenians, Poniatów and the newly constructed area: Sand Mountain and Podzamcze. At the side of the great Walbrzych life goes directly adjacent and associated threads of mutual interdependence of such cities as Szczawno-Zdroj, Boguszów-Gorce, Świebodzice, Jedlina-Zdrój, and even Mieroszów and Głuszyca. Wałbrzych agglomeration has a chance to become a as homogeneous a strong team marketing, if you put on the development of tourism, recreation and relaxation with elements of health. This assemblage is the direction the city, because each component part of the agglomeration of treating it as a priority.
We have so little time for historical reflection on your city. And what is worse, we see no such need. We do not care what happened in the German Walbrzych, or what happened immediately after the war. What is important is today and what will happen tomorrow. And it is hardly surprising.
We live in a virtual world, the machine replaces the function of electronics and its derivatives, and denies book-Dual video. We live in the world of media, we get sucked into the quest for modernity. But still, after all, sometimes walking through the streets of the city wakes up timid reflection, how it all came from, where are we and what are we doing here? It would be nice to devote more time to such reflection. It's much healthier and more profitable than the pursuit of sensations in local politics or for promotional offers discount stores or supermarkets.
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