This summer, Warsaw’s artistic landscape has been enriched by the new effigy of William Heerlein Lindley. It is the the bust of W.H. Lindley sculptured by professor Jan Pastwa from Warsaw Fine Art University. He is also the author of the full sculpture of W.H. Lindley standing next to the bench dedicated to him at Warsaw Podzamcze Park. The bench has been designed by Dr Norbert Sarnecki with assistance of Anna Sarnecka.
The bust of W.H. Lindley stands in the latest addition to Warsaw Supply Company - water ozonation and water filtration on the activated carbon.
The relief depicting William Lindley-father on the pediment of the building is visible from Filtrowa Street but the bust of William Heerlein is not publicly accessible. It can be admired only by the guests of the Company.
We are very glad of the fact that W.H. Lindley is also commemorated in the new Water Supply Company building, but we regret that Professor Pastwa has not benefited from our iconography and gave his sculpture the profile (intuitively rightly) of the author of this note, who tirelessly do research into career and life of the Lindleys, the family of the great English Civil engineers...
About the artists see: http://sculpture.com.pl/files_NS/index.htm
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The Family on the Lindleystreet in Frankfurt on Main. From l. to r.: Hanna Żelichowska, Karin Deubner, Ma Neubauer, Ursula Caspar, Beatrice Caspar, Alexander Caspara and Eugen Deubner
Day one – 30 August (Thursday)
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From that day on we followed a master plan prepared by Eugen Deubner. We visited HESSENWASSER, MAINOVA and the municipal SEF (Stadtentwässerung, FFM), which supply the water, power and sewage respectively to the population of Frankfurt. Dr. Rödel, historian and retired monument preserver, gave us some information about civil engineering in Frankfurt between 1806 and 1914, as well as interesting information about the biographies of the Lindley’s in Frankfurt. Presentation took place in Goldstein Waterworks, where William and William H. Lindleys worked on the first modern water supply system for Frankfurt.
The same day was to the combined heating and power plant, Heizkraftwerk WEST. Extensive tour was conducted by a passionate man Mr. Joachim Siebenhaar. And there was a lot of history as well. William H. Lindley built his first electric power plant in Frankfurt (1892-1896), with Oskar von Miller.
Day two – 31 August (Friday)
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On all locations we were treated with great esteem and were able once more to realize how important the Lindleys were also for this city.
After the tour we went to the city and met Mr. Volker Harms-Ziegler, an historian from the City Archive, who gave us brief historical tour of Römer and Zeil.
Day three – 1 September (Saturday)
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This day was organized by Ryszard Żelichowski. We went to Evangelical Reformed Church - West (Deutsch Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche) on Freiherr vom Stein Strasse No. 8, (former Church of England) founded by William Heerlein Lindley. It was very disappointing since the church is gone and replaced by a big modern religious center of Evangelical Reformed Church. However, the commemorating stone has been preserved and exposed in front of a new religious center.
Next we went to former Blittersdorffplatz 29. It was another disappointment. The historical place is gone and the square is now called François-Mitterrand-Platz (he became a honorary citizen of Frankfurt a.M. in 1986).
We gave up walking through the Neue Mainzer Strasse (to No. 51, where the Getz family used to live). There was nothing to see either. The number 51 is incorporated into huge new Frankfurter Sparkasse and the street has become mainly a brick-canyon for the mass city traffic.
Later we took tram No. 11 to Lindleystrasse, and it was rewarding. It has been built-up with many decent houses and the East Harbour (Osthafen) has been renovated and decorated with a monument dedicated to the city-mayor Franz Adickes (1890-1912), under whose authority W.H. Lindley worked until 1896.
Departures, 2 September (Sunday)
Afteer the breakfast we went to our own destinations. We have planned next family-reunion for 2014 in England. Full report on the family-reunion you can see : E-library on this page |
Samara (Russian Самара, in the years 1935–1991 Kuybyshev, Куйбышев) - a city in Russia, a river port on the Volga. The capital of the Samara region.
In October 2016, on the occasion of the 130th
anniversary of the Samara waterworks, in front of the main entrance to the
SKS-Samara Ltd. (Municipal Systems in Samara), the Walk of Fame was opened, on
which the names of prominent representatives of the municipal water and sewage
industry were placed.
Every year, the Avenue of Stars is replenished
with new names of "stars". Their role is played by slabs of gray
elegant local stone.
In 2016, on the Walk of Fame, the names of the
founders of the city's water supply and sewage network were immortalized: William
H. Lindley, Alfred von Vacano, Peter Alabin and Nikolai Zimin.
William Heerlein Lindley is the author of the first Samara sewer design.
In 1906, the Samara City Hall (Duma) decided to build a sewage system in the
city according to his design. The main parts of the sewage system have survived
to this day. In 2019, 110 years have passed since this event. The letter
"H", an abbreviation of Heerlein, part of his surname (according to
the British tradition of his mother's name) is missing from the record. We
asked to supplement it. Perhaps our Russian friends will make this necessary
adjustment.
Alfred Josef Marie Ritter von Wellho Vacano (Альфред фон-Вакано)
(1846-1929), Austrian subject, entrepreneur, philanthropist, owner of a brewery
in Samara. Initiator and sponsor of the construction of the first sewage system
in Samara. In 1909, a 4.2 km long trial sewage system financed by him was put
into operation.
Opening ceremony in 2016
Peter Alabin (1824-1896) served as mayor from 1884
to 1891, and in this position he largely contributed to the opening of the
first waterworks in Samara in 1886.
Nikolay Zimin is the author of the design of the first waterworks in
Samara.
In 2017-2019, the Avenue of Fame was enriched with
another four boards.
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The photographs were kindly offered to our Society by courtesy of Director General SKS Samara Vladimir Biryukovowi (Главного управляющего директора ООО "Самарские коммунальные системы" Бирюкова Владимира) and Maria A. Almazov, head of the PR department of SKS (Мария Александровна Алмазова, начальник отдела по связям с общественностью ООО).
World Water Day is an annual UN observance day (22 March) that highlights the importance of freshwater. The day is used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The theme of each day focuses on topics relevant to clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), which is in line with the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 6.
Source: https://www.igwp.org.pl/index.php/informacje/wydarzenia
Today, instead of joint public festivities we propose „Wirtualne
zwiedzanie Stacji Filtrów” (Virtual visit to the Museum of Warsaw Water Works)
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