Kawęczyńskie Zakłady Cegielniane Kazimierza Granzowa

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The ruins of the company's former administrative building at 165 Chełmżyńska Street, a listed building

The Zakłady Cegielniane Kazimierza Granzowa (also: Zakłady Cegielniane Kazimierza Granzowa SA w Kawęczynie ) was a brickworks founded in 1866 outside the then city limits of Warsaw . Before the First World War, it developed into one of the largest and most modern brick factories in the Weichselland . The administrative building adjoining the factory premises in the former village of Kawęczyn still exists today as a ruin in the Warsaw district of Rembertów and is to be renovated and converted into a museum. The factory itself no longer exists.

Kazimierz Granzow

Kazimierz Lucjan Granzow (1832–1912) was the son of a German family in Poland; his parents were Fryderyk and Amelia, nee Meszke (originally Moeschke). He grew up in Warsaw and was trained as a mason foreman in Hamburg . After staying in several European countries, he returned home, where he was chairman of the guild of master masons from 1874 to 1884. As a builder Granzow directed construction work on Warsaw buildings, such as the Szpital im. Dzieciątka Jezus , the Teatr Mały , the church "Wszystkich Świętych", the Villa Rau as well as at the station buildings of the Terespol ( Linia kolejowa nr 2 ) and the Vistula railway lines ( Kolej Nadwiślańska ). He was married twice after the death of his first wife Karolina, née. Jaeger (1838-1858), he married her sister Klementyna (1843-1890). Granzow had three children: Stanisław, Władysław and Flora (married Briggs). The family belonged to the Evangelical Augsburg Church , Granzow was buried in the Evangelical Augsburg cemetery in Warsaw.

A nephew of Kazimierz Granzow was the Warsaw author and publisher Ferdynand Hoesick .

Brick factory

In 1863, Granzow acquired 63 hectares of land outside Warsaw from the Olędzki family. The soils of the areas were heavily clayey . In addition, since the Petersburg-Warsaw railway line had just been completed and the construction of a Vistula bridge ( Most Kierbedzia ) and a railway line to Terespol were about to be completed, the location seemed perfect for the construction of a brick factory. From 1866 a factory complex of more than 10 buildings in the typical style of industrial buildings from the 19th century was built here at ul. Chełmżyńska . The products made in the mechanized factory had an excellent reputation. Bricks from Kawęczyn were used in many important buildings of the time (such as the Lindley Canals , the Teatr Wielki and the Great Synagogue ) and they repeatedly won awards at international exhibitions. The entrepreneur had a housing estate built for his workers and their families near the factory. The settlement included a grocery store and a dry cleaner. There was also a school and a reading room here.

At the beginning of 1912 the company was converted into a stock corporation. The administration has now moved to an office in Al. Jerozolimskie 68 around. During the attack on Warsaw at the beginning of the Second World War , the factories were destroyed in 1939. Today the Kawęczyn thermal power station ( Ciepłownia Kawęczyn ) is located on the former factory premises .

Around 1895 Kazimierz Granzow had an administration building built in the form of a spacious villa, popularly known as "Grancówka", at ul. Chełmżyńska 165 . The building was in an eclectic style with lots of neo-Gothic elements. Both the façade and the roof were elaborately designed, and many of the brickwork's products were used and presented to potential customers. The building was not damaged during the war and was used as a school, kindergarten and social therapeutic facility in the post-war period. In 1991 the property came back into the possession of Zakłady Cegielniane Kazimierza Granzowa SA , which was liquidated shortly afterwards. The building was sold to private customers, but remained uninhabited and unrenovated. Around the turn of the millennium, heavy snowfalls caused roof damage, and later parts of the walls also collapsed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register number 1248-A from April 24, 1989
  2. ↑ Eugeniusz Szulc, Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie: zmarli i ich rodziny , Biblioteka Syrenki, ISBN 978-8306016062 , Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1989
  3. ^ Tadeusz Stefan Jaroszewski, Dzieje palacu Kronenberga , 1972
  4. ↑ Juliusz A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Atlas of architecture of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p 56
  5. ↑ 7 motors, each with an output of 190 HP, drove mixers and conveyor belts and generated electricity for lighting the halls and other uses

literature

  • Lech Królikowski, To Granzowie za Polską? Murem! , in: Kurier Warszawski. Magazyn Mieszkańców Stolicy , ISSN  1896-6683 , issue 2 + 3/2013 (39), publisher: MaPa Sp.z oo, p. 10f.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '32.9 "  N , 21 ° 7' 35.1"  E