Polak Barracks Museum
The Museum Polakkasernen in Taagerup is a museum that documents the seasonal work life of Galician migrant workers on the Danish islands of Lolland and Falster .
Most seasonal workers were recruited as cheap labor from poor backgrounds in Polish Galicia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century and brought to Denmark by intermediaries and supervisors via Krakow and Rostock , where there was a shortage of labor in agriculture due to the development of the sugar industry. The seasonal workers stayed from late April to early December.
The residential buildings for these seasonal agricultural workers were called polak barracks and were typically built in open fields away from the estate in order to limit the contact of the seasonal workers with the local population. The barracks in Taagerup was built in 1911 by Gut Lungholm and was designed for 30 seasonal workers. In 1984 a foundation was set up to open a museum in the listed building to commemorate the living conditions and history of these Polish seasonal workers.
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- ↑ The Polak Barracks building . Museum website, accessed November 23, 2019.
- ↑ The creation of the museum . Museum website, accessed November 23, 2019.
Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 37.4 " N , 11 ° 27 ′ 13.7" E
