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Happy Christmas from the Board of Societas Lindleiana!

Christmas greetings from Giżycko located in the heart of the Great Mazurian Lakes...

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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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 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.