The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Żyrardów

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The residential building, rebuilt from a flax spinning mill, was built in 1913 in Żyrardów. It was one of the most modern buildings of the Linen Plant and one of the first in the world made of reinforced concrete, adapted to the loads resulting from the work of several thousand spindles. In order to evenly distribute the stresses and vibrations of the building, the roof structure was loaded with earth, and then plants were planted. There was a fire tank on the roof of the building. The water, which was drawn from the Górny Staw on Pisia Gągolin, was to flood all the floors of the building in turn in the event of a fire. On the top floor, below the fire tank, there were two other huge water tanks used to store water used for flax processing (so-called wet spinners). The water was drawn from a source located on the factory premises. It was the cleanest and healthiest water in Żyrardów.

The Filip de Girard Linen Museum is one of the most interesting places cultivating the linen traditions of Żyrardów, illustrating the history of the linen industry in Poland. It is located in one of the factory halls of the former Bielnik, which was once part of the production complex of the Żyrardów factory. The nature of the exhibition makes it the only facility of its kind in Mazovia and one of the few in the country, worthy of the attention of Polish and foreign tourists. The monumental post-industrial spaces of the Linen Museum in Żyrardów are closely linked to the over 180-year-old tradition of the linen industry. The building once housed a branch of the printing house of the Żyrardów Linen Plant, which by the end of the 19th century had become the most powerful linen factory in Europe at that time, and its products were known and appreciated all over the world. The building housing the Museum is a historic building, part of the 19th-century factory settlement in Żyrardów, recognised as a historical monument, i.e. the highest form of monument protection in Poland. The Filip de Girard Linen Museum Filip de Girard in Żyrardów evokes the memory of the times when the Żyrardów factory was working at full steam, employing from 5 to 9 thousand workers. The exhibition consists of several dozen historic machines, constituting a complete technological sequence, presenting the most important elements of the process of processing textile raw material and fabric production. Most of the machines come from the 1970s and 1980s, but the collection also includes unique exhibits from the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition of machines is complemented by a permanent exhibition ,,Żyrardów. The city woven with linen”, which consists of large-format prints of archival photographs of textile machines, information presenters, and multimedia devices. The aim of the facility is to conduct scientific-research and cultural-educational activities in the field of the history of linen, the history of the linen industry in Poland and the history of the city of Żyrardów. The current offer of the Museum is a starting point for further work archiving and documenting the history of the Żyrardów factory. Due to the nature and type of activity conducted, the Museum is a unique attraction for tourists from Poland and Europe. The lack of a similar museum facility in Mazovia, combined with a modern form of presentation, is the main reason to visit this place.

The manor-style station designed in the architectural studio of the Road Department of the Warsaw Railway Directorate headed by Bronisław Brochowicz-Rogoyski and then Romuald Miller is an example of high-class utility architecture of the interwar period. It is included in the group of buildings constructed in place of destroyed railway facilities during World War I on the line of the former Warsaw-Vienna Railway, characterized by a homely form and symmetrical plan. The historicizing shape and detail referring especially to the Baroque express the then searches and attempts to shape a national style.

was established in 1914

right at the station

in an old style, it makes an impression

the old station, after a slight renovation, still impresses