„Księży Młyn” ( Przędzalniana and Milionowa street area)
The name „Księży Młyn” came from the property that was intended for industry development and mill situated there, which on the beginning of XIX century was possession of lodz rector, and from 1825 was included to new linen – cotton settlement. From 1870 this area became a possession of Karol Wilhelm Scheibler, which after season of “cotton crisis”, was the biggest lodz industrialist and he used the land that he bought to expansion his company, named as a central station. During the 70 – ties years of XIX century on the area of “Księży Młyn” was created a urbaniste – architectural group, which included : factories, factory settlement and owner’s residence, later on, they added a new elements such as like: fire – brigade building, school, shops and hospital. In 1878 near of factories Scheibler’s was build a settlement that counted 18 two storey houses from red brick, and designed on a plan of rectangle. The whole size of this area was 500 ha, what was of those days 1/7 territory of Lodz, also they’ve connected this huge industry creation by private railway system. In this way “Księży Młyn”, named form the german as a “Pfaffendorf”, became enclave independent form the city. Because of his unique character and preservation almost in unaffected condition most of the buildings from complex, “Księży Młyn” is now one of the precious historic monuments of postindustrial Europe.
Not far away from “Księży Młyn” we can find the oldest park in the city and one of the oldest in Poland – Park Źródliska, written to register of monuments. The origin of the name came from plenty of springs which appeared here. This park become a monumental of the nature. We can find here “Palmiarnia” ( something like Palm house ), there is a collection of 4,5 thousand types of species and races plants ( 65 botanic families ). The most precious species are the palms – some of them 120 years old, 18 m height. We can see how for a real looks bush of a tea or a coffee. To look over a cotton, eucalyptus, or just rest in a shadow of banana tree. The collection is disposed in a three glasses pavilions – a first with a plants from tropics, second with the mediterranean plants, and the last one with plants form deserts and savannah.