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Architektura wież wodnych województwa katowickiego

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Gryglewska A.

Ochrona Zabytków

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1992

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issue 1-2

48-58

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The tower occupies an important place in the history of architecture. The impact of its form in space thanks to its vertical nature and height was always significant and its attraction influenced human emotions. In the second half of the nineteenth century there appeared water towers on the plains of Northern Europe as a central object of each waterworks net. The watertowers in the Katowice voivodship constitute a varied and extensive complex of technological monuments. They date from the 1894-1935 period and provide a review of the trends in art from that time. The dominating forms tend to historicise, while the accompanying exellent examples of modernism and Sezession contain all the features of Silesian architecture. The innovative construction of the buildings and containers, the careful approach to architectonic detail and the high standard of the construction deserve closer attention. The towers in Gliwice were built in the style of brick Gothic, extremely popular in German monumental architecture during the second half of the nineteenth century. The tower on Poniatowski Street in Gliwice, together with a reservoir of a similar, Gothic architectonic detail constitutes a unique complex of objects connected with the municipal waterworks. A series of towers embellished with detail taken from medieval fortifications was planned by Georg and Emil Zillman from Berlin-Charlottenburg for the Georg von Gisches Erben company. They were erected in the years 1907-1913 in the Giszowiec, Borki (Korczak Street) and Szopienice (I Complex of the Non-ferrous Metal Works Szopienice) districts.. The towers are among the oldest in Silesia, with a reinforced concrete construction. The towers in Świętochłowice and Chorzow can be included among the off-shoot of the Sezession style, with a monumental, „Teutonic" form. The reduced historical forms of the watertowers - classical or medievaloccur almost up to the second world war. A characteristic, uniform group is composed of small towers with a historicised architectonic form known as the „Baltic lowlands style" and in the shape of a chalice. They include the towers in Katowice- Brynow, and the railway towers in Kochłowice, Chebzie, Szopienice and Gliwice. The tower in Zabrze, one of the largest in Upper Silesia, refers to the Gothic structure. An example of a modernistic approach to the historical legacy is the watertower in Ruda Śląska-Nowy Bytom, whose reduced classicistic forms bring to mind the realizations of M. Berg and H. Polzig. The expressionist current, which combines dynamic form with the features of traditional German architecture, includes towers in Toszek and Ostrop. An example of functionalism in architecture are the towers in Bytom and Stolarzowice. The construction solution applied in the tower in Bytom - a joint connection of the framework of the tower with the foundation - is exceptionally interesting. In contrast to historical sacral and lay objects, technological monuments have not attracted much attention in the past. Silesian towers in Chebzie, Łagiewniki and Chropaczow have not survived - they were eliminated from exploitation in the inter-war period and the 1960s, following changes in the water supply to the region. The only method of preserving extant examples is their active protection by making them a part of contemporary life, and discovering a new function which will guarantee means and motives for their maintenance.

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Dawna Fabryka Norblina w Warszawie - szopa na rowery czy katedra w Lincoln?

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Kubiak J.

Ochrona Zabytków

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1983

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issue 1-2

110-112

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The author tries to answer the question whether old Norblin’s factory in Warsaw has to be preserved and treated as a monument. In the beginning, however, he describes the history of the building, which despite adversities of the fortune and two world wars has survived until our days in an almost unimpaired form. The old factory complex has still buildings from all phases of the history from 1780 to 1939. For some time it housed the Warsaawa Metail Rolling Mill. According to various opinions, the complex, situated in the centre of the town, is to be either pulled down or preserved as a monument of the past. A* conservation experts report worked out in the Monuments Conservation Workshop and based on the future programme for the use of the complex has revealed its usefulness as a branch of the Museum of Technics. The report postulates to use all historic objects to a maximum extent. Just as the discussion on the future of former Norblin’s factory has been going on for a few years, the author thinks it worthwhile to point out some theoretical and functional aspects of the problem of the protection of industrial architecture both on a townplanning, architectionic and functional scale. Quoting the opinion of Professor Jan Białostocki, one of the best known Polish art historians, the author states that to regard Norblin’s complex as ”a clumsy and unesthetical architectural product (as it is thought by some experts) is an erroneous assumption inadequate to contemporary criterions of the evaluation and appreciation of all man-made objects. In this context, this statement loses its justification. Former Norblin’s factory is a testimony of the past, and arguments frequently repeated in discussions that these buildings are technically worn-out and have no u tility value must be rejected in this light, because they constitute one of rare documents on the development of the industrial society. Despite appearances, the outwardly ugly and technically worn-out walls of Norblin’s factory conceal much information on the past epoch, to which the author provides the proofs.

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The power station of Elektrizitätswerk Schlesien AG in Siechnice. An industrial plant in the 20th century – a work of an engineer and an architect-artist

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Gryglewska A., Rabiega M.

Architectus

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2022

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issue 1 (69)

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Tematem artykułu jest architektura elektrowni Tschechnitz (obecnie Elektrociepłownia Czechnica) w Siechnicach pod Wrocławiem. Obiekt budowany w okresie intensywnego rozwoju przemysłu elektroenergetycznego na Dolnym Śląsku na początku XX w. był efektem postulowanej przez twórców związanych z Deutscher Werkbund współpracy inżyniera i architekta-artysty. Celem pracy jest prezentacja historii i przekształceń elektrowni, artystycznego kształtowania jej układu urbanistycznego, elewacji, reprezentacyjnych wnętrz maszynowni, warsztatów mechanicznych i obiektów o funkcji reklamy. Analiza historii i stanu obecnego kompleksu była możliwa dzięki przeprowadzonym przez autorów badaniom terenowym, kwerendzie materiałów źródłowych, tekstów w prasie fachowej oraz ikonografii z lat 1910–2019. Przeprowadzone badania stanowią podstawę dla określenia zakresu ochrony konserwatorskiej oraz rewitalizacji tego zakładu po jego planowanym zamknięciu w 2024 r. wskutek polityki likwidacji elektrowni węglowych w Polsce.

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The subject of the article is the architecture of the Tschechnitz Power Plant (currently Czechnica CHP Plant) in Siechnice near Wrocław. The plant, built during the period of intensive development of the power industry in Lower Silesia at the beginning of the 20th century, was the result of cooperation between an engineer and an architect-artist, postulated by architects associated with Deutscher Werkbund. The aim of this article is to present the history of the construction and development of the power plant as well as artistic shaping of the urban layout, façades, representative interiors of the machine rooms, mechanical workshops as well as facilities with an advertising function. The analysis of the history and the present condition of the complex was possible thanks to field research carried out by the authors, a query of source materials and texts in the professional press as well as iconography from the years 1910–2019. The conducted research is the basis for defining the scope of monument protection and for revitalizing the power plant, which will be closed in 2024 with regard to the policy of decommissioning coal-fired power plants in Poland.

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Architektura wież wodnych województwa katowickiego

Dawna Fabryka Norblina w Warszawie - szopa na rowery czy katedra w Lincoln?

The power station of Elektrizitätswerk Schlesien AG in Siechnice. An industrial plant in the 20th century – a work of an engineer and an architect-artist