Stary Cmentarz

One of the most atmospheric places in the city

Currently, the cemetery is under revitalization - closed. Some of the work is already done - the alleys. Object worth visiting. I am waiting for the end of the renovation to visit it again. I recommend🙂.

Lots of chestnuts :)

Everyone who wants to know the history should visit this place obligatorily ... 🙂👍

The Old Cemetery where Francesco Nullo, an Italian Colonel, is located Friend and confidant of Giuseppe Garibaldi, commander of Italian volunteers, so-called Garibaldians who took part in the January Uprising 1863. Francesco Nullo (born March 1, 1826 in Bergamo, died May 5, 1863 in Krzyawka) - Italian colonel. Grave of Peter Westen, owner of the EMALIA Factory Establishment and fate of the Westen factory in Olkusz A quarter of a century ago, almost every inhabitant of Poland had one, unchanging association associated with Olkusz; you said you were from Olkusz and people shouted enthusiastically: "Oh, pots." The logo of the Olkusz Enamel Dish Factory, a characteristic teapot, was considered one of the most recognizable symbols among Polish consumers. Until recently, no one had to be convinced of the importance of the factory in the history of Olkusz. However, a lot has changed since then. In August of this year, during the XIII International Silver Painters' Olkusz 2017 Painting Festival, we hosted painters from several countries; Edward Gałustow, a painter from Belarus, boasted to me of metal teapots, pots and cups bought in a shop in Olkusz. I told him that it was a product of Olkusz enamel. He was immeasurably surprised, then showed me that all on the bottoms have the logo ... Ikea. Unfortunately, in Olkusz, although pots are still being produced, it is no longer the same scale of production as it used to be or the same brand. Olkusz at the turn of the 19th and 20th century was a thoroughly provincial city. Admittedly, supra-local institutions functioned there, after all, it was the seat of a vast poviat and even the Olkusz region, nevertheless the city was small and poor, and there were many similar in the Kielce Governorate. An important event which somehow saved Olkusz from the fate that befell several neighboring towns (eg. The near Pilica), was the establishment of the railway line from Iwangorodu (Deblin) to Sosnowiec in 1885. In that Pilica turn not established and today the town it has about. 1700 inhabitants, which is half as much as at the end of the 19th century. Olkusz was at the beginning of the Of the twentieth century, a town with just over 2,000 inhabitants citizens (Pilica 3883 and Wolbrom 3085), in which there were only two workplaces: a vodka distillery and a vinegar factory, employing a total of ... four workers. But then, exactly on July 6, 1907, that is, the 110th anniversary recently passed, a crucial event took place in Olkusz; the Russian authorities have registered the company under the name "Westen" Jointed Stamping and Enamelled Products Association. The society was formed by Peter Westen (Austrian), Fryderyk Meisenholl (Germany) and Fryderyk Jakubiec (Czech), but it was Peter Westen who played the first violin in this interest (the Westen family had 86% shares in the company).  However, even before it was created, in 1906, "he bought Westen land from a man named Schaub, who ran a roofing felt plant and was also the head of drilling works carried out by the company" Vereinigte Deutsche Nickel - Werke ". On the grounds of these, covering a quarter of the current area factory (written in 1974. - perm.) Westen built in 1907, the first barracks factory, which arranged enamel, equipped initially with four furnaces dwumuflowe, mills and topielnię and wytłaczarnię (the so-called. " sztancownię "). Initially, the extrusion plant had three wheel presses and two crank presses with a maximum pressure of 60 tons, eight smoothing machines, two spinners, six eccentric presses, one friction press, one large turning and three small lathes. " Peter Westen (1875-1934) was an industrialist and came from Vienna. The Westens not only had money, but also experience in the enamel industry. Already in 1858, Father Peter Westen founded in Neschwitz (Lusatia, the Kingdom of Saxony) a factory of very modern steel vessels at that time. The first factories of this type were barely established