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Nikiszowiec - Nikischau, part. 4

Nikiszowiec, Nikischau, Nikisz, Katowice, Kattowitz, historical estate, familok, Poland, Polska, Śląsk, Schlesien, camera: Samsung GX10, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

Nikiszowiec or Nikischau or Nikischenwald is a historical part of Katowice (Kattowitz) - workers estate built in the village Janow for miners, named after the pit-shaft “Nickisch” (after Kurt Nickisch) one of 14 pit-shafts of coal mine “Giesche”. Designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann from Charlottenburg.

Nikiszowiec - Nikischau, part. 3 - The Yard

Nikiszowiec, Nikischau, Nikisz, Katowice, Kattowitz, historical estate, familok, Poland, Polska, Śląsk, Schlesien, camera: Samsung GX10, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

The yard of the one of the quarters of estate/settlement Nikiszowiec. Yards are wide and long enough for playgrounds and for rest among the trees and plants, and bright - important for the coal miners. Nikiszowiec or Nikischau or Nikischenwald is a historical part of Katowice (Kattowitz) - workers estate built in the village Janow for miners, named after the pit-shaft “Nickisch” (after Kurt Nickisch) one of 14 pit-shafts of coal mine “Giesche”. Designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann from Charlottenburg.

Nikiszowiec - Nikischau, part. 2

Nikiszowiec, Nikischau, Nikisz, Katowice, Kattowitz, historical estate, familok, Poland, Polska, Śląsk, Schlesien, camera: Samsung GX10, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

Gate to the yard of the one of the quarters of estate/settlement Nikiszowiec. Yards are wide and long enough for playgrounds and for rest among the trees and plants, and bright - important for the coal miners. Nikiszowiec or Nikischau or Nikischenwald is a  historical part of Katowice (Kattowitz) - workers estate built in the village Janow for miners, named after the pit-shaft “Nickisch” (after Kurt Nickisch) one of 14 pit-shafts of coal mine “Giesche”. Designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann from Charlottenburg.

Nikiszowiec - Nikischau, part. 1

Nikiszowiec, Nikischau, Nikisz, Katowice, Kattowitz, historical estate, familok, Poland, Polska, Śląsk, Schlesien, camera: Samsung GX10, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

A historical part of Katowice (Kattowitz) - workers estate built in the village Janow for miners, named after the pit-shaft “Nickisch” (after Kurt Nickisch) one of 14 pit-shafts of coal mine “Giesche”. Designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann from Charlottenburg. Place of many strikes of miners against their employer - owners of mine “Giesche” and one of the battlefields of three Silesian Uprisings of the Poles against Germans (Silesia used to be a mixture of ethnics - mostly Polish and Germans - both wanted those lands to be part of their country, in the time of nationalistic ideas that brought many troubles). More to read soon on MacKozer.com Camera: Samsung GX10