Factory of Białystok Association of Manufacture

Factory of Białystok Association of Manufacture
Fabryka Towarzystwa Białostockiej Manufaktury
General information
StatusShopping center
LocationBiałystok
Addressul. Świętojańska 15A
Coordinates53°07′32″N 23°10′7″E / 53.12556°N 23.16861°E / 53.12556; 23.16861
Year(s) built1895
DesignationsRegister of monuments

The factory building of the Białystok Association of Manufacture is a structure in Białystok, Poland. It was owned by Eugen Becker & Co., a German company. The factory contributed to the historical textile industry in Białystok, and it is on the register of monuments in Poland.[1][2]

History

The factory was founded by Germans in 1895 in what was then the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire. At that time, Germans made up many of the industrialists operating in neighboring Congress Poland.[3] The Becker factory produced plush.[2]

Board house from 1905

The factory was one of the largest in Białystok by the start of World War I, and it employed up to 300 people.[4][5] The site featured storage, mills, a dyeworks, and stables.[5]

Historian Feliks Tych edited the testimony of a man who, during World War II, was "arrested" and "sent off to Białystok [and] placed in the factory of the Becker company, where there were already thousands of Poles, Ukrainians, and Belorussians."[6] After World War II, the factory was nationalized and produced textiles until 2007.[5] In 2008, the structure became a shopping gallery.[4]

Description

The site features a board house in the Neo-Renaissance style.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "fabryka". Zabytek. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  2. ^ a b Herschberg, A. S. (1949). Bialystok. Vol. 2. New York: Gezelshafṭ far geshikhṭe fun Byalisṭoḳ. pp. 28, 56 – via Dorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library.
  3. ^ J. C. Hesse. (1937). National Minorities in Europe: VII. The Germans in Poland. The Slavonic and East European Review, 16(46), 93–101.
  4. ^ a b Klopotowski, Maciej; Zagroba, Marek (2017). "Post-industrial Objects and Buildings in the Structure of the Contemporary City". IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science. 95 (5). ISSN 1755-1307.
  5. ^ a b c d Tokajuk, Andrzej; Tokajuk, Ewa (2020). "New Life of Postindustrial Factories in Bialystok – Chosen Aspects". Teka Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobrazowych. 15 (1): 16–27. ISSN 1895-3980.
  6. ^ Tych, Feliks; Siekierski, Maciej, eds. (2022). I Saw the Angel of Death: Experiences of Polish Jews Deported to the USSR During World War II. Hoover Institution Press. ISBN 9780817925062.
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