Industrial safety hall at the Gdansk shipyard
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Occupational safety and torpedo hall |
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| place | Danzig |
| opening | 2010 |
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The industrial safety hall of the Gdansk Shipyard is a building on the site of the former Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk . Its Polish name is Sala BHP ( Bezpieczeństwo i higiena pracy - occupational health and safety), and because of its original function it is also known as the torpedo hall of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Today it houses a congress center, exhibition rooms and a museum. The owner is the Polish trade union Solidarność . From the start of warship production in the shipyard until spring 1945, the building served as a warehouse for torpedoes .
History of the structure
Mid-19th century to spring 1945
First, in the second half of the 19th century, the first stone and wood building was erected on the site of today's hall. It consists of a two-storey administration section and a ground floor storage area, which is now the historic Great Hall . The parts of the building were not built at the same time, the building was given its current shape in 1902. In the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig and its successor in Danzig shipyard , mainly ships were built for the military needs of Prussia and later the Third Reich . From the beginning, the work safety hall served as a warehouse for torpedoes and as an assembly plant for arming warships. The historical inscription Torpedohalle has been preserved on the northeast facade to this day.
After 1945
After the end of the war in 1945, the shipyard and thus also the hall no longer served military purposes.
After the fire on the MS Maria Konopnicka on December 13, 1961, in which 22 shipyard workers were killed, the building was dedicated to occupational safety and health protection and has been called Sala BHP ever since .
1978-80 the administration wing was converted into the operating museum of the Danzig shipyard, which existed until the mid-1990s.
The industrial safety hall became historically significant in August 1980 as the founding and meeting place of the cross-company strike committee (MKS - 'Międzyzakładowy Komitet Strajkowy') during the strike of the Gdańsk shipyard workers. The negotiations between the MKS and the government commission took place there. On August 31, 1980, the August Agreement was signed here, from which the independent and self-governing Solidarność emerged.
On December 6, 1999, the industrial safety hall was officially listed as a historical monument .
The Solidarność trade union has been the owner of the building since 2004, which was completely renovated in 2005 . It was opened in its current form on August 24, 2010.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Sala BHP (Polish / English) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 41.2 ″ N , 18 ° 39 ′ 7.1 ″ E