The last chapter of paper mill history
I
don’t invite you to that place anymore. My mystery place. At the end of June when
I visited Kalety last time, the excavators had run into the paper mill area. The
last chapter of wonderful history starts now. The engine building was
demolished first. It was most interesting room of the factory with three to
four meters deep holes, floor made of green and white small tiles and huge
switchgear in the control station overhead. Door of the hall was walled like no
other building of the mill complex and destroyed glass-tile window was only entry.
It had been hiding a stolen and ravaged machinery secrets, when the paper mill liquidation started in 1994.
A
few months ago dismantling team dissembled a construction of huge furnace installed
inside the boiler hall. That was a first stage of industry scrap segregation.
Now, when the destruction is running, the fireclay bricks are sorted and maybe
sold to other plants. One
of the walls doesn’t exist, but the building divested of intestines stands though
an intact.
The
former main production hall with transformer cages and large label on the wall:
“The first paper mill in Poland” is knocked down at the half-length. The
highest front windows have no glass and the wiggly flora dies. Recently it was
a one of most recognized symbols, now day green leaves transmute into dried
brown patterns like the sheet of ancient paper. This is the end.
Nobody want to encompass law secure the old buildings as national (maybe local) legacy. Cellulose factory was established in 1884, next the paper mill remains two wars and real socialism epoch but not holds out the transformation. Kalety was built of mill’s property, factory gave the workplaces, the employee housings and other social goods. Life was running surround the mill. Today that life is dying... Tomorrow it will not exist.
Nobody want to encompass law secure the old buildings as national (maybe local) legacy. Cellulose factory was established in 1884, next the paper mill remains two wars and real socialism epoch but not holds out the transformation. Kalety was built of mill’s property, factory gave the workplaces, the employee housings and other social goods. Life was running surround the mill. Today that life is dying... Tomorrow it will not exist.
