Zakłady Ogrodnicze “C. Ulrich "

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Bust of Krystian Ulrich, the son of the company founder
A newly created park in memory of the company
The "Wola Park" shopping center

The Zakłady Ogrodnicze “C. Ulrich “ SA were the oldest and largest nursery in Poland. Founded in 1805, they remained family-owned until the 1950s when they were nationalized. Some of the company's buildings will be preserved in the Warsaw district of Wola .

history

The founder of the nursery was the German Johann Gottlieb Ulrich (1775–1844), who came from the then German Pförten and moved to Warsaw at the request of his uncle, Johann Christian Mencke, the head gardener of the Royal Saxon Garden . He initially worked as a gardener in the Saxon Garden . In 1805, he founded a gardening business on a plot of land of around 20,000 square meters in Warsaw's ul. Ceglana (today ul. Pereca , where the Mennica Polska building is located), initially specializing in fruits, vegetables and flowers. Cultivation was carried out in four greenhouses, each 100 meters long. His successor as owner and manager was his eldest son, Krystian Ulrich (1809–1881); he was followed by his son, Chrystian Gustaw Ulrich (1854–1913), who took over the business in 1881.

Górce

As early as 1877, the company had been enlarged by the purchase of land in what was then the village of Górce near Warsaw. Further greenhouses and tree nurseries were set up here. From 1868 the company also ran flower shops, the first opening in the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw , followed by shops in ul. Sienkiewicz and in the Mirów halls (eastern front of the east hall). From 1869, apprentices were trained in Polish, German, history, botany and geography in the company's own school. The well-tended gardens in Górce became a popular local recreation area for Warsaw residents. After Gustaw Ulrich's death, his Scottish son-in-law Artur Ludwik Machlejd (married to Krystyna Ulrich) became the managing director of the company, which now operates as a stock corporation.

post war period

After the Second World War , Machlejd rebuilt the infrastructure in ul.Górczewska (formerly the village of Górce, now the Warsaw district of Wola) and was expropriated in 1958. A nursery for garden plants of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established on the site .

After the facility had largely fallen into disrepair in the 1990s and the company premises at ul.Górczewska had been returned to the owners' heirs, they sold it in 1996 to the entrepreneur Ryszard Krauze , who sold it on to the French company Auchan . The French investor built a shopping center here on the site of the former nursery in 2002 - the Centrum Handlowe "Wola Park" . The part of the name “Park” is reminiscent of the former Ulrich facilities. Some of the historic Ulrich buildings have been preserved to this day. These include the vacant villa of the entrepreneur Gustaw Ulrich, a few unused greenhouses and the gardener's wooden house, which is now used as a restaurant. A small park was created - Ulrich Park (Park Ulryków) . There are a large number of signposted individual trees, such as a hanging beech , a red maple or a swamp oak . There is also a statue in the park with a copy of a bust of Krystian Ulrich; the original is in the Warsaw-Wola Museum .

Due to the earlier importance of the family and their company, this part of the Wola city district was named Ulrychów .

  • The family's former villa in Górce; vacant today

  • Some of the old greenhouses have been preserved

  • The former gardener's house is now used as a restaurant

  • Commemorative plaque for the company at the location of the first company headquarters at ul. Ceglana

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cmentarz ewangelicko-augsburgski w Warszawie , website on graves in the Protestant cemetery in Warsaw (in Polish, accessed on August 18, 2014)
  2. ↑ a b c Local History ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the "Wola Park" website (in English, accessed on August 17, 2014)
  3. ↑ Arkadiusz Dawidowski, Daniel Walczak: Kwaśna sprawa ... from February 19, 2004 in Super Express (in Polish, accessed via the Hotnews.pl website on July 26, 2014)

literature

  • Zofia Jurkowlaniec, Roland Borchers: Polacy z wyboru: Rodziny pochodzenia niemieckiego w Warszawie w XIX i XX wieku / Poland of free choice: Families of German origin in Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries , ISBN 978-83-62020-46-1 , Fundacja Wspołpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej / Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw 2012, p. 225 ff.

Web links

Commons : Ogrody Ulrychów  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  N , 20 ° 55 ′ 53.6 ″  E