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Happy Christmas from the Board of Societas Lindleiana!
Happy Christmas from the Board of Societas Lindleiana!
This beautiful water tower was built in 1900 in Gizycko, in the heart of Great Mazurian Lakes. Since 1997 it has been the private property with a cafe and the local museum on the top.
It was designed by engineer Otto Intze (1843-1904). The Intze Prionciple was named after him.
A water tower built in accordance with the Intze Principle has a brick shaft on which the water tank sits. The base of the tank is fixed with a ring anchor (Ringanker) made of iron or steel, so that only vertical, not horizontal, forces are transmitted to the tower. Due to the lack of horizontal forces the tower shaft does not need to be quite as solidly built. This type of design was used in Germany between 1885 and 1905.(Wikipedia)
https://www.gizycko.pl/wieza-cisnien.html
https://www.gizycko.pl/wieza-cisnien-w-zimowej-szacie.html
Giżycko is truly part of “the land of a thousand lakes”, whose greatest attraction is nature. There are over 100 lakes around Giżycko. They surround it on all sides: Lake Niegocin (seventh largest in Poland with 26 km2) in the south, Lake Mamry (second largest in Poland with 104.5 km2 and up to 43.8 m deep) in the north, Lake Tajty in the west, and Lakes Wojnowskie and Grajewko. Niegocin and Kisajno (comprising Lake Mamry) are connected with two canals.
https://www.gizycko.pl/en/main_en.html
The Hotel Lindley opens at Lindley Street in Frankfurt on Main!
The Hotel Lindley opens at Lindley Street in Frankfurt on Main!
The "Lindley Hotel" in Frankfurt on Main, designed for the network
Lindenberg GmbH by a group of architects gathered around prof. Bernhard Franken,
is still under construction. The opening of this new four-star hotel is
scheduled for 2018.
The 4,340 sq. m hotel has 100 guest rooms. According to the designers, this is not a classic hotel concept but a "guest community", which will not only be focused on renting rooms, but also on sharing the common space.
The location of the hotel at the Lindley Street in Frankfurt Ostend has given the owners of the hotel network an idea for the excellent marketing operation. They invited Arthur Becker, a well-known author of the Polish origin who has been living in Germany for four decades, to write a hotel-roman called "The Immortal Mr. Lindley". The official premiere of the book took place in September 2018.
Artur Becker: Der unsterbliche Mr. Lindley: Ein Hotelroman, Verlag weissbooks 2018, Preis: 24,-- Euro
Artur Becker
tells the story about the meeting of a
certain family at the Hotel Lindley. One of their members, impressed by the historical
achievements of William Lindley, a designer and builder of waterworks in
Frankfurt in the 1860s, embarks on the drug journey in time and meets the English engineer…
"The Immortal Mr. Lindley" is a melancholic, historically based story
that says a lot about Frankfurt without being a guide-book. While reading the
book one realizes that we all inevitably become “a commodity" …
Address of the hotel:
Hotel Lindley Lindenberg, Lindleystraße 17 -19, 60314 Frankfurt am Main - Ostend
William Lindley (1808-1900) returns to Hamburg in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018
William Lindley (1808-1900) returns to Hamburg in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018
William Lindley will speak
On
the 7th of September 2018, University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in
cooperation with the Institute of Heritage, will publish the digital app
revitalizing William Lindley. In
such a unique way City of Hamburg wants to celebrate the 210th birthday of
William Lindley!
The digital app, using the voice of the German actor, will inform the application user about W. Lindley’s impressions from Hamburg, about the fruits of his work for this city. He will also explain "how important is the common action, exchange of experiences with other Europeans and willingness to create a positive basis for the implementation of new joint projects”.
A
small sample of this application was presented to the participants of the
opening of the European Year of Cultural Heritage on January the 8th
this year in the Grand Hall of the City Hall in Hamburg.
On the
photograph you can see a digital figure of William Lindley, who asks prof. Monika
Grütters, Minister of State for Culture and Media, dr. Martina Müncha, President of the DNK,
dr. Carsten
Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media in Hamburg, Petra Kammerevert, MEP, to
officially inaugurate the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.
English engineer William Lindley (1808-1900) returns to Hamburg in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The Office of Monuments and the University of Applied Sciences have prepared an application in which Lindley, as a digital hero, comments on the city's development.
European Year of Cultural Heritage in Germany with W. Lindley in the background
European Year of Cultural Heritage in Germany with W. Lindley in the background
In
March 2017, the President of the German National Committee for the Protection
of Monuments, the Minister of Culture of Brandenburg and the Minister of State
for Culture invited the volunteers to participate in the European Year of
Cultural Heritage in 2018. This
year's project takes place in Germany under the slogan "Heritage
sharing" and is an initiative of the German National Committee for the
Protection of Monuments, the Federal Government, federal states and municipal
associations in Berlin. The
Coordination Office expects about 500 projects and about 1,000 events in Germany
throughout the year.
The
ceremonial inauguration of the European Year took place on January 8, 2018 in
the Grand Hall of the Town Hall in Hamburg.
Six
schools connected in a regional network were given the task of becoming
acquainted with and interpreting the role of monuments and historic buildings
in the urban space. Teams
will learn about the cultural heritage of their city as part of the history of
North Germany and commitment to the protection of monuments.
William Lindley project. A man to start with
Klosterschule high school in Hamburg, as part of the project William Lindley project. A man to start with, focused on William Lindley, a British engineer who in Hamburg designed the first modern waterworks and underground sewers on the European continent, the first railway connection and engaged in the redesign of the port. Its results will be presented publicly as part of an exhibition organized by the Office for the Protection of Monuments in Hamburg.
https://denkmal-aktiv.de/schulprojekte/archiv/schulen-2017/gymnasium-klosterschule-hamburg/
Societas Lindleiana's honorary patronage
We are pleased to announce that at the invitation of the organizers of the International Piano Festival Chopin in the heart of Warsaw, the Lindley Society “Societas Lindleiana” became the Honorary Patron of this most important cultural event of the capital this summer...
Societas Lindleiana's honorary patronage
We are glad of this honor twice. First of all, for the year 2018 falls the 210th anniversary of birth of William Lindley, the founder of three-generation-family of civil engineers. The main celebrations of this event will take place in Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, where he started his European career.
Secondly, the festival will take place in an extremely beautifully restored church of the Holy Trinity, in which: "in 1825, Fryderyk Chopin performed before the tsar Alexander I and received a ring with a diamond from him. The young composer sang in the parish choir and listened to sermons here" (writes Przemysław Lechowski, director of the festival).
For our Society the most important thing is that the organizers noticed and appreciated, apart from the obvious religious role of the church (God's Temple) and cultural role (superb acoustics), its modest secular role in the history of our city.
Preparations for triangulation works in Warsaw are illustrated in the page of the memorial album reproduced below by the collaborators of William H. Lindley on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the beginning of sewage and water supply works in our city. The central point of this page is the dome and cross of the Holy Trinity Church.
First concert by an Italian artist Leonora Armellini will take place on the 7th of July. |
More details: http://chopinwsercuwarszawy.pl/festiwal-2018/ http://chopinwsercuwarszawy.pl/home-2/ |
Organizatorzy/Organizers
Parafia Ewangelicko-Augsburska Świętej Trójcy W Warszawie
Towarzystwo im. Fryderyka Chopina
Partnerzy Artystyczni/Atristic Partners
Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny Towarzystwa Chopinowskiego W Hanowerze / Niemcy
Syberyjski Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny Im. Fryderyka Chopina W Tomsku / Rosja
Warszawskie Warsztaty Pianistyczne
Partnerzy Organizacyjni/Organizational Partners
Zespół Państwowych Szkół Muzycznych im. Fryderyka Chopina W Warszawie
Patronaty/Patronate
Towarzystwo Lindleyowskie Societas Lindleiana