18. The Residential Villas

The residential housing district was created in the 1880s for the directors and managers of the textile factory. The complex of three-storey villas in the French Renaissance style had proper gardens attached from the eastern façade. Most of them are well preserved to this very day and still serve the housing purpose.

19. Haupt’s Villa

The Villa of Wilhelm Haupt, the managing director of the Textile Factory, was built in the Swiss style in 1890. Nowadays it houses the Council Flat Corporation ‘Żyrardów’ Ltd.

 

 

 

 

20. Factory Fire Brigade and Cart House

The Factory Voluntary Fire Brigade was established in 1884. There was a building of stables and cart house designed in an L shape and built in 1896. It was partially rebuilt after 1945 and now it houses Car Repair Garage. It is one of the first revitalized units in Żyrardów.

21. The Landscape Dittrich’s Park

It is the park situated by the Pisia Gągolina River. It was designed by an architect, Karl Sparman (also a designer of Warsaw Botanic Garden). The park was created as an attachment to the Dittrich’s Villa and contains small forms of garden architecture as well as the old tree stand.

22. Karl Dittrich’s Representative Villa

The residence was built by Karl Dittrich Jr., from 1885 to 1890. He was the Chairman of Żyrardów Factory Joint-Stock Company Association ‘Hielle & Dittrich’. The residence is an example of neo-Renaissance urban architecture. Now the villa became the seat of the Western Mazovia Museum, (the former Museum of Workers’ Movement History).

23. The Police School

In the 1920s there was the Police School in this building. Now it is a dwelling house.

24. The Dovecote

The building was raised in 1913 as an old people’s home. Nowadays it is a dwelling house.

25. The Protestant Church

The single nave church designed by Lessner in neo-Gothic style was built in 1898. In 1970s the church was purchased by the local Congregation for the Roman Catholic Church of Ascension.

 

26. The Protestant Chapel

The chapel was built in Neo-Gothic style and it houses the Protestant Parish. It is situated on the same parcel of land as the Catholic Parish which is a unique arrangement.

 

 

 

27. The Factory Canteen

It was built around 1900. Since 1910 the first cinema projections were established there. In the 1920s – 1930s it housed the ‘Bioskop’ Cinema. Nowadays it is a sports hall.

 

 

 

28. The Bath-House & Laundry Rooms

The edifice was built in the 1880 to serve the factory workers. There were laundry rooms and bath facilities and also steam sauna. The Bath-House and Laundry was in use till the end of 1980s. Now, after the revitalization it houses doctor surgeries and a pharmacy shop.

 

 

29. The Stocking Factory Building “Stella”

It was built in a horseshoe-shape in 1870 and extended from 1890 to 1910. At the beginning of the 20th century it was one of the largest factories of this kind in the Russian Empire and one of the Factory units.

 

 

30. The Counting House

The Counting House was built in an H-shape. It was the seat of administration—the managing director’s office and the headquarters of Żyrardów Factory Joint-Stock Company Association. In 1896 the building was extended. The interior is decorated with the ornamented banister and little iron-cast columns of the staircase.

31. The Tyrolese Palace

It is the oldest representative building in Żyrardów. It was constructed from the 1860s to 1870s in the Tyrolese style by Karl August Dittrich for his son-in-law, Ludwig Marcellin, an Austrian merchant. Behind the palace there is a wooden summer-house from the 19th century.