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Sixty years ago, the Kattwyk Coking Plant (Hamburg)

Sixty years ago, the Kattwyk Coking Plant (Hamburg) prepared a special medal in memory of William Lindley...

Sixty years ago, the Kattwyk Coking Plant (Hamburg)

In 1960, i.e. sixty years ago, the Kattwyk Coking Plant prepared a special medal in memory of William Lindley. On the obverse there is a bust of William Lindley with the inscription:
HAMBURGERGAS (Gas of Hamburg, in the upper part) and WILLIAM LINDLEY, ERBAUER DES ERSTEN HAMBURGER GASWERKS (W.Lindley, constructor of the first gasworks in Hamburg, in in the lower part). There is a large inscription on the reverse: HGW KOKEREI KATTWYK 1960 (Hamburger Gasworks, Coking Plant, Kattwyk 1960).



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The commemoration involved the opening of a new coking plant in an industrial district of Hamburg, opened in 1960. The new coking plant was short-lived. It was extinguished in 1981 and was demolished a year later.


In August 1844, the foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of the first gas coking plant at Grasbrook was held. A year later, the first public gas lanterns to illuminate Hamburg's main streets with coal gas were introduced. In the fall of 1845, there was such a large flood that the new gas facilities were unusable. A new building was needed. “It was taken over by the English engineer William Lindley, who was also responsible for building a modern water supply in Hamburg. The gas lanterns burned again at the end of 1846: 2020 in numbers. The brightness of the streets made the gas plant so popular that its image adorned the backs of playing cards, "writes Sasha Disko-Schmidt in the text Gasversorgung für die moderne Stadt (Gas supply a modern city).



Source:https://geschichtsbuch.hamburg.de/epochen/industrialisierung/gasversorgung-fuer-die-moderne-stadt/


Kattwyk, together with Altona, found itself within borders of Hamburg in 1937. Currently, this name is connected with the unusual Kattwykbrücke drawbridge over the southern Elbe for rail and road traffic. A 290-meter-long bridge connects Moorburg with the eastern Kattwyk peninsula, which belongs to the Elbe Hohe Schaar and Wilhelmsburg islands.

Easter 2012

HAPPY EASTER 2012!

Easter 2012

DEAR MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND READERS,
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF SOCIETAS LINDLEIANA IS WISHING YOU HAPPY EASTER!
ENJOY YOUR FAMILY AND THE BEAUTY OF WAKENING NATURE!






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The Hotel Lindley opens at Lindley Street in Frankfurt on Main!

The "Lindley Hotel" and the hotel-roman on William Lindley in Frankfurt on Main in 2018...
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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.




http://www.franken-architekten.de/index.php?pagetype=projectdetail&lang=en&cat=3&param=cat&param2=2289&param3=0&


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

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...
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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.


https://sharingheritage.de/projekte/mit-lindley-durch-hamburg-englisches-know-how-in-der-hansestadt-digital-erleben/

http://www.hamburg.de/bkm/kulturerbejahr-2018-hamburg/10234046/lindley-2018/http://www.hamburg.de/pressearchiv-fhh/10222840/europaeisches-kulturerbejahr-2018/


European Year of Cultural Heritage in Germany with W. Lindley in the background

During European Year of Cultural Heritage in Germany Klosterschule high school in Hamburg works on a Project William Lindley. A man to start with...
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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.




Klosterschule high school





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...

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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.

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.


During visit to Warsaw in 1881, William Heerlein Lindley, an English civil engineer, noticed an elegant in proportions the Holy Trinity Church, designed by the royal architect Szymon Bogumił Zug. However, not religious considerations played the greatest role here, although William H. Lindley was a member of the Anglican church, but the fact that with his crowning cross it was the highest building in Warsaw at the time. After resignation due to the health condition of  his seventy-three-year-old father, the work on the sewerage and waterworks in Warsaw, as well as all his duties were taken over by his eldest son - William H. Lindley.



A modern and accurate measurement of the city was needed for such a large infrastructural investment of the city, as well as a detailed plan. For measurements, an appropriate network of triangulation points was needed. The church of the Holy Trinity at the current Stanisław Małachowski square (at that time the Evangelical square) drew William H. Lindley's attention. The cross on its dome was chosen as the main point (central geodetic reference point) for triangulation of Warsaw.


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


  
    



Easter 2018

Happy Easter to members and friends of Societas Lindleiana...
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Easter 2018



Sponsored by the City of Warsaw (Fall in love in Warsaw for Easter)

And vintage card from the Board of Societas Lindleiana



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