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Easter 2013

Coming up Easter is firmly embedded in the Polish tradition, both religious and secular one. On Sunday and Monday we will share with our families or friends eggs, blessed in church or not, eat traditional food, drink coffee or tea and serve traditional “mazurka pastry”  (in other parts of Poland other treats). At the Easter Sunday festive luncheon we will make various wishes, one of them will be for sure the same in all families  – hope that spring that finally comes to us! And not only to the nature, but also hope that it fills out our hearts. Let this Easter time be merry and bring us hope for a better and more beautiful days in 2013!

Executive Board of Societas Lindleiana

Season's Greetings

The world continues!

The end of the Mayan Calendar, December 21, 2012, a cataclysmic event on earth has not occurred! Our world will continue. We have breathed a sigh of relief!

Therefore, on behalf of the Societas Lindleiana, I may submit to you now, Our Dear Friends and Supporters abroad, best wishes for healthy, peaceful, prosperous and warm Holiday Season (in terms of human relations) and an optimistic view of the coming New Year 2013, after all we have the end of the world behind us!

Richard Żelichowski
The president




Societas Lindleiana

Vocational School of William Lindley in Hamburg is the fact!

The official ceremony associated with the renaming of the school was scheduled for 14 November this year. Among the honorary guests were representatives of the city authorities - Senator Ties Rabe, the Guilds Chairman Fritz Schellhorn and of the companies employing and teaching pupils practical skills. A special invitation was sent to the descendants of William Lindley and the president of the Societas Lindleiana. During the renaming ceremony the direct line of the Lindleys was represented by Herr Eugen Deubner, who came to Hamburg with his wife Karin.

The School Director, Mr.  JörnBuck,  gave a warm welcome to the honorary guests, the teachers  and the pupils. Official speeches were delivered by Senator Ties Rabe, the Chairman of the Guild of Installers and Plumbers Mr. Fritz Schellhorn, and Mr. Bottländer, head of personnel at e.on-Hanse.

 Dr. Ortwin Pelc, from the Museum of Hamburg History, delivered a comprehensive lecture on the achievements of  William Lindley in Hamburg. His lecture was illustrated with many great photographs from the collections of the Museum. 

Eugen Deubner and Rainer Schulz, Chairman of Hamburger Institut für Berufliche Bildung (which is the organizational unit managing all the vocational schools of Hamburg) were asked to unveil the sculpture and  the sign with the new name of the school. 

Eugen Deubner’s short speech ended with handing over a gift to the headmaster - a framed copy of the picture of the famous section of the sewage canal designed by William Lindley for Warsaw. The design was made ​​in the workshop of William H. Lindley in Frankfurt am Main and included a bilingual description in German and Polish. 

Ryszard Żelichowski, acting as the president of Societas Lindleiana,  congratulated the Director on the perfect organization of this event and the excellent idea of ​​giving the school the name of William Lindley. He also passed on to Mr. Buck a letter of congratulations from the chairman of the board of the Water Supply and Sewage Company in Warsaw, together with a copy of the album “125 years of Warsaw Municipal Waterworks 1886-2011”.

It was a very successful and pleasant ceremony. Since the 15 November the Free Hanseatic City of  Hamburg has a “Vocational School William Lindley” (Berufliche Schule William Lindley)! 

For more details and more photographs see our: E-library

Family-reunion 2012

After long preparations  we have persuaded a small number of family members to come to Frankfurt on Maine for the reunion in the busy month of August. On 29 August (Wednesday) in Astoria Hotel (Rheinstrasse 25) arrived Beatrice and Alexander Caspar, Ursula Caspar, Margrit Neubauer, Hanna and Ryszard Żelichowski, Karin and Eugen Deubner.

 

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)

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)

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)

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)

 

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!