Małyń - village in Poland, located in voivodeship of Lodz, in Poddębicki district, in in the commune of Wygim, above Nerem.
Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 47′12 ″ N 19 ° 01′37 ″ E
The first written information about the village comes from 1392. However, the history of settlement in this area is much earlier, as a cemetery from the period of Roman influences (1st-2nd century AD) was discovered here. In 1549, he was granted a location privilege and became a town, but for a little over 100 years - the last information about Małyń's urban career comes from 1654. At the end of the 18th century, the village belonged to Michał Boxa Radoszewski of Siemkowice, who "resided in the manor by the pond from a cut tree. Later, the owners of Małyń were Stefan Wituski, Gozdawa coat of arms, and the last owners of the village were the Świętochowski family. From 1398 there was a parish here, and from 1752 there was a wooden parish church built thanks to the efforts of Stanisław Gajewski of the Ostoja coat of arms. In its place was erected in the years 1905-1912, the present, brick, neo-Gothic church. st. Andrew. There are two baptismal fonts in this church: a gothic one, a stone one from the end of the 15th century, and a renaissance wooden one from 1555.
In the church cemetery there is the Wituski chapel with an epitaph commemorating Krystyna Wituska who fought in time World War II in Warsaw with the Nazi occupiers in the ranks Home Army. She was arrested, sentenced to death by the Germans and beheaded with an ax in the Halle / Saale prison. Just before the beheading, in a farewell letter to her parents, she wrote: "My last duty towards Poland and you - it is to die bravely"Her father, the owner of the nearby Jeżewo, founded a school in Małyń, named after her daughter.
According to the registers NID the following objects are entered on the list of monuments:
- parish church st. Andrzeja, 1905, reg.No .: 323 / A from September 24, 1986
- manor house, 2nd half of the Nineteenth century, reg.No .: 378 of December 29, 1989
Another very attractive place is another facility - a mill, the history of which dates back to 1868. In Małyń, on the Pisi River, there is the oldest (though not the only) water mill in the Poddębicki district. For over 100 years, it has been continuously grinding grain for farmers from several nearby villages. The mill still operates traditionally, thanks to the work of human hands. All devices, except the mixer, are pre-war in it. They need to be renovated from time to time, but they work flawlessly, including the French turbine with hornbeam "teeth". The mill is run by Honorata Jaruga, who has lived in Małyń for 12 years, and after the death of her husband - Witold, the miller, herself in 2009 runs a mill and a hydroelectric power plant on the Nera river.
In a three-storey brick building, erected in 1909-1911, finished with larch wood, the ground floor is occupied by an 80-year-old mill and office, which used to receive payments. In front of the entrance, there is a black information board with the current price: PLN 6 per cubic meter of ground grain. In the basement there are antique transmission belts and an electric generator, you can also watch the operation of the turbine there. A memento of the first mill is a wooden beam with the date 1868 engraved on it, attached to the ceiling - it is the oldest element of the first wooden watermill built here. The first miller, Stanisław, rests in the local cemetery, and the tombstone is in the shape of a mill wheel. His son, Nikanor, the second miller in Małyń, was a local social worker, one of the organizers of the Volunteer Fire Brigade in Małyń and its first treasurer, but he also looked after the family mill. It was he who, over a hundred years ago, came up with the idea to connect the river Ner and its tributary Pisia with a canal, which increased the water level and enabled the mill to operate more efficiently. Nikanor also brought a French turbine to Małyń, which is still operating today, so that the mill would also generate electricity. Thanks to this, in 1926 the entire village was electrified. A separate line led to the church. How much was then paid for electricity? - It was worked out on the Jarugów farm, which also included arable fields, meadows and a forest. The village used the electricity generated by the mill for almost a quarter of a century.
During the war, the Nazis seized the mill and the farm, and in 1940 they deported Stanisław, son of Nikanor, to the Mauthausen-Gusen camp in Austria, from where he did not return. His son Witold, born a few months later, did not know his father and could not learn milling from him.
In 1950, the mill was nationalized, and Witold with his mother and grandfather Nikanor, together with other tenants, could only live in the house opposite the mill. The mill was used by the Gmina Spółdzielnia, but it was closed in the early 1980s. in 1987, bought from the state treasury for the equivalent of the national average annual salary at that time.
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