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/
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.
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 LindleianaOn July 23, 1881,
William Heerlein Lindley, authorized by his father, signed a contract with the
Warsaw Magistrate for the execution of sewage and water supply plans and to
supervision of their construction. Agreement between the Magistrate and William
H. Lindley is deposited at the state archive in Warsaw and consists of 42
paragraphs and additional points regarding the relationship between engineers
with the city authorities. The contents of the contract was revealed to the residents of Warsaw only in October with the publication of details in
"Technical Review" monthly.
William Heerlein Lindley in Warsaw
The citizen
committee for the construction of sewage and water supply system of the city of Warsaw was gathered two days
later. As "Kurier Warszawski" wrote on 26 July: "The first
meeting [of Committee] was held yesterday under the leadership of the city
President in the presence of Mr.
Lindley, the son. The President presented the main points of the
contract". For "supervision
and executing of works on the construction of sewage and waterworks" the
municipal authorities were obliged to pay Lindley annual remuneration of
equivalent of 2000 Pound Sterlings (paid quarterly in Rubles).
Public place
William
Lindley-father did not come to Warsaw to sign the contract, officially due to
the illness. In reality, because two years earlier he retired and withdrew from
undertaken obligations making a place for his successor, his eldest son. From
all his rights and obligations resulting from the contract with the Warsaw
Magistrate he resigned on August 26, 1881.
With signing of the contract the uncertain situation in Warsaw concerning the fate of this great project finally came to an end. Tsar Aleksander II, who died on March 13, 1881, in a bomb assault directed by the Polis anarchists, was succeeded by his son, Alexander III. In his inaugural speech (manifesto of 14/2 March) he promised “to follow the footsteps of his father and finish all what he began". In the case of Warsaw, the tsar kept his promise and signed relevant documents enabling the construction of local sewage and modern water supply system. The works could have been started, but it took five long years before the inhabitants of Warsaw could enjoy filtered water.
On March 14, Jakub Lewicki, the Masovian Voivodeship Conservator of
Monuments, informed that the Water Tower of the Polfa Tarchomin Pharmaceutical
Works was registered as a historical monument.
The water tower building was
erected in the complex of pharmaceutical plants in Tarchomin, on the premises
of Ludwik Spiess' plants nationalized after World War II. In 1957, the final project of the tower's crowning by Ing.K. Bohatyrewicz, was
developed by the BIPROFARM company.
The Tarchomin Water Tower, present day
Phot. Małgorzata Łoś
For more photographs of the tower visit:
Małgorzata Łoś, https://wiezecisnien.eu/mazowieckie/warszawa_polfa/
We have received the very sad news of the death of Alexander Caspar, one of the oldest descendants of William H. Lindley.
Alexander Caspar with wife Beatrice (on the left) and Hanna Żelichowska
in Blackheath (2015)
Alexander Walter Horst Caspar (6 April 1934-26 February 2021), was the great-grandson of W.H. Lindley and the grandson of his daughters Julia Fanny Elizabeth and Robert Boveri. He spent his childhood in Germany and worked in Swiss banks. There he met his wife Beatrice Spotti, with whom he has two daughters.
He showed a deep interest in the history of the family and was an outstanding source of knowledge about their many connections with famous European families.
Alexander Caspar's grandmother, Julia Fanny, stayed with her father, W.H. Lindley in Warsaw in 1901.
Alexander Casper visited our city with his wife in 2006, took part in family reunions, incl. Baku and London (2015), where a memorial plaque on the Lindley family home was unveiled.
Alexander Caspar and the family (from left:) wife Beatrice, sister Ursula (in the background) and Heinke Peschke with Karin Deubner
Alexander Caspar's family has long musical traditions, many of its members played different instruments. This tradition is continued by the youngest daughter Julia, a talented Swiss violinist.
With his passing, a very important chapter in the history of the Lindley family has been closed. He was a living link between the distant past and the present. I owe him a lot of invaluable information about the past. It is regrettable that the epidemic took our time to continue these fascinating journeys into the times of the pioneers of civilization's progress at the time.
May He rest in peace.
Hanna and Ryszard Żelichowscy, in the name of Societas Lindleiana
February 2021
In the history of Warsaw, the capital of the liquidated Kingdom of Poland, he has been assigned the ungrateful role of the military president of Warsaw. He held this function as a major general of artillery in the Russian army in the years 1875-1892. He liked Warsaw and stayed with it for the rest of his life. He died on August 23, 1902. His character was viewed positively by Poles from the very beginning. The Monument to Starynkiewicz at the Filter Station and the square bearing his name are the only commemorations from the period of the Russian partition preserved in Warsaw, and his grave in the Orthodox cemetery in Wola is under the care of the capital MPWiK S.A.
He became famous for his responsibility and honesty. His out-of-pocket
payments to the municipal treasury for damages caused by improper investment
purchases have become legendary. During the years of his term in office, there
were great investments in infrastructure, including the construction of water
and sewage systems, the launch of the first public horse-drawn tram line, the opening
of a large Bródno cemetery and the construction of a new gas plant in Wola.
Without diminishing the merits of Starynkiewicz in building the largest investment in Warsaw - water supply and sewage systems - the Russian sources unknown to the then national journalists reveal that it could only be possible thanks to the successful appeals to Tsar Alexander II and Alexander III by two Russian governors-generals - Paweł Kotzebue and Piotr Albedyński - placed higher in the hierarchy of military power administering Warsaw than the provisional president!
Literature:
Sokrates Starynkiewicz, Dziennik 1887-1897, PWN, Warszawa 2001.
Ryszard Żelichowski, Lindleyowie. Dzieje inżynierskiego rodu, Biblioteka Societas Lindleiana, t. I-III, Warszawa 2019.