She slept on - Spała

She was asleep - holiday settlement in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in you will say TomaszówThe Gać river flows through the village, creating a small reservoir and flowing into the nearby river Pilica.

Characteristic

Geographical location: 51 ° 32′28 ″ N 20 ° 08′17 ″ E

In the years 1975–1998, the town administratively belonged to the then Piotrków Voivodeship.

The origins of Spała date back to the 17th century. In the 18th century, the exploitation of the Spała forests was started. The wood was processed into charcoal and tar, and used as fuel in nearby industrial plants, e.g. for smelting iron in smelting furnaces in the settlement of Kuźnice (today Tomaszów Mazowiecki) and lime burning. Part of the wood was floated down the Pilica to Vistula. In the 18th century, there was a mill settlement in Spała, which became the beginning of a resort. The inspection of royal estates in the Łęczyca voivodship in 1789 shows that there were three milling settlements in the vicinity of Spała. After the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Inowłódzkie estates along with the Spała forests were incorporated into Prussia and were nationalized. In 1819, the mill and fulling mill were inherited by Kacper Spała. The new owner soon launched a sawmill, at the same time erecting buildings with rooms for several employed workers, but it is known that in 1864 the settlement fell into economic decline.

On September 10-18, 1876, the heir to the throne hunted in the Spała forests Russia, Tsarevich Alexander, later Tsar Alexander III. The hunting was continued in the following years, and in 1884 a wooden hunting lodge was built for the tsars according to the design of Leon Mikucki - a Krakow architect. One of the rooms in the palace in Spała was all decorated with deer antlers, and the furnishings were made of deer horns. Nearby, barracks for the Cossack sotnia and a company of jegrs, an officers' casino and houses for guests were built. The water tower was built in 1890. Around 1900, two more hotels were built for the tsarist guests (now there are holiday houses "Rogacz" and "Dzik"). The entire residence occupied a large area, initially managed by the margrave of Wielopolski. Access to the forest and the residence area was prohibited. The tsarist family was protected by the Cossack sotnia. To ensure peace for the tsarist guests, several villages around Spała were liquidated. The areas after them were afforested.

After the tsarist times, the following remained in Spała: a commemorative stone in the place where Alexander III hunted his first deer (St. Hubert's rampart), "Rogacz" and "Dzik" holiday houses and a beautiful wooden ranger house (today a museum).

During World War I, Spała found itself in the German occupation zone. A large military hospital was established here. Then, in 1916, the railway line Spała - Tomaszów was built.

After Poland regained independence, it was planned to use Spała as a residence Józef Piłsudskiwho stayed here during the holidays in 1921. In 1922, Spała was allocated to the summer residence of the presidents of the Republic of Poland. President Stanisław Wojciechowski contributed to its restoration. He ordered to build a wooden chapel in the Zakopane style in 1923 on the site of the former barracks, called for a long time the Chapel of the Presidents of the Republic of Poland. Queen of the Polish Crown.

President Ignacy Mościcki, a great hunting enthusiast, often visited Spała. He introduced the custom of celebrating in Spała annual nationwide harvest festival. The first Polish central harvest festival was held here on August 28, 1927, with approximately 10,000 visitors. For the purposes of this celebration, a stadium was built in 1928, and later a sports hall for 38,000 people. It was President Ignacy Mościcki who brought the present symbol of Spała from Warsaw in 1928 - a bison monument cast in 1860. The fate of this monument is connected with Białowieżawhere it was originally set (now there is an exact copy of it).

At times PRL Spała was changed into a holiday center for employees FWP, sports competition area, training and meeting center for various specialties. The Central Sports Center is one of the most famous landmarks in the country.

Drive

By plane

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By car

The national road No. 48 runs through the settlement Tomaszów Mazowiecki–Kozienice–Dęblin–Kock.

By bus

By ship

Communication

Worth seeing

• Chapel of Mary the Queen, wooden (larch), 1922-3 in the "Zakopane" style, registry number 418 from April 16, 1991, currently the parish church,
• A palace park, next to the palace of the President of the Republic of Poland, 19th century, registration number 1 / P-I-1/50 of January 29, 1950
• Reinforced concrete bridge over the Pilica river, on the road to Cieśliowice,
• A brick water tower from the beginning of the Twentieth century
• In the center of Spała, there is an English-style park with many exotic trees
• Museum House of Remembrance of the Struggle and Martyrdom of Polish Foresters and Woodworkers.

Nearest neighborhood

• Inowłódz
• Tomaszów Mazowiecki
• The open-air museum of the Pilica River in Tomaszów Mazowiecki

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Science

Shopping

Gastronomy

Festivals, parties

• Presidential Harvest Festival in Spała
• Folk Handicraft and Antiques Fair in Spała

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