Bolesławiec is a beautiful city with a rich and fascinating history. It is worth learning about its past and becoming acquainted with the architecture of bygone years. The photographs below show Adam Mickiewicz Street, which was called Poststrasse before World War II.
The first buildings on the station side belonged to Louis Dernbach’s well-known printing house in Bolesławiec. From 1883, the printing house published the Bolesławiec daily newspaper “Bunzlauer Stadtblatt”, founded in 1881, as well as numerous books and periodicals. In 1893, an innovative rotary press was purchased; it printed around 10,000 pages per hour. At the time, the machine was one of the most modern in the world and the first in Germany.
On the left side of the street, heading towards the Market Square, stands the building of the Museum of Ceramics. Until 1945, the Municipal Museum, established in 1907, operated here. Earlier, the building housed a bowling alley and a restaurant. The museum held beautiful and extensive collections concerning the culture and history of the Bolesławiec region, but unfortunately, as a result of the turmoil of war, they were probably lost forever.
The Museum’s tower housed the Great Master Joppe’s Pot from 1909. Made on 23 July 1753, it was destroyed by Soviet soldiers in the final days of the war. Today, the Museum of Ceramics conducts highly interesting and intensive cultural and historical activities, so a separate article devoted to its rich history will be prepared in the future.
Sebastian Zielonka – historian and graduate of the University of Wrocław. Specialization: archival studies and conservation documentation. He is interested in the history of the region and the social life of Europeans in the 20th century. In his free time, he travels.
(information: Sebastian Zielonka)