Attractions and Places To See around Żyrardów - Top 20

There's a large tree growing by the café behind the palace. I remember it being a rare species, and I think it's a Ginkgo biloba. Such a specimen is unique in Poland. It might be a tulip tree, though. I can't remember exactly, but I think someone might be interested in this tree, especially if they're as interested in plants and trees as she is.

The residential building, rebuilt from a flax spinning mill, was built in 1913 in Żyrardów. It was one of the most modern buildings of the Linen Plant and one of the first in the world made of reinforced concrete, adapted to the loads resulting from the work of several thousand spindles. In order to evenly distribute the stresses and vibrations of the building, the roof structure was loaded with earth, and then plants were planted. There was a fire tank on the roof of the building. The water, which was drawn from the Górny Staw on Pisia Gągolin, was to flood all the floors of the building in turn in the event of a fire. On the top floor, below the fire tank, there were two other huge water tanks used to store water used for flax processing (so-called wet spinners). The water was drawn from a source located on the factory premises. It was the cleanest and healthiest water in Żyrardów.

The Filip de Girard Linen Museum is one of the most interesting places cultivating the linen traditions of Żyrardów, illustrating the history of the linen industry in Poland. It is located in one of the factory halls of the former Bielnik, which was once part of the production complex of the Żyrardów factory. The nature of the exhibition makes it the only facility of its kind in Mazovia and one of the few in the country, worthy of the attention of Polish and foreign tourists. The monumental post-industrial spaces of the Linen Museum in Żyrardów are closely linked to the over 180-year-old tradition of the linen industry. The building once housed a branch of the printing house of the Żyrardów Linen Plant, which by the end of the 19th century had become the most powerful linen factory in Europe at that time, and its products were known and appreciated all over the world. The building housing the Museum is a historic building, part of the 19th-century factory settlement in Żyrardów, recognised as a historical monument, i.e. the highest form of monument protection in Poland. The Filip de Girard Linen Museum Filip de Girard in Żyrardów evokes the memory of the times when the Żyrardów factory was working at full steam, employing from 5 to 9 thousand workers. The exhibition consists of several dozen historic machines, constituting a complete technological sequence, presenting the most important elements of the process of processing textile raw material and fabric production. Most of the machines come from the 1970s and 1980s, but the collection also includes unique exhibits from the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition of machines is complemented by a permanent exhibition ,,Żyrardów. The city woven with linen”, which consists of large-format prints of archival photographs of textile machines, information presenters, and multimedia devices. The aim of the facility is to conduct scientific-research and cultural-educational activities in the field of the history of linen, the history of the linen industry in Poland and the history of the city of Żyrardów. The current offer of the Museum is a starting point for further work archiving and documenting the history of the Żyrardów factory. Due to the nature and type of activity conducted, the Museum is a unique attraction for tourists from Poland and Europe. The lack of a similar museum facility in Mazovia, combined with a modern form of presentation, is the main reason to visit this place.

The current palace was built between the tower and the early Baroque palace (currently non-existent) and received its current form at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries after a classicist reconstruction carried out by Kazimierz Krasiński, the Crown Campiander, according to the design of Jakub Kubicki. At that time, a columned porch with a terrace in front of the main entrance was also built. The expansion of the palace complex was later continued by Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński, who created a landscape park around the palace that exists to this day and rebuilt the small castle in the neo-Gothic style, which is the remains of the former Radziejowski tower. Over the following decades, Radziejowice was visited by people of culture, including Juliusz Kossak, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Lucjan Rydel, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Chełmoński, Stanisław Masłowski.

Cemetery of soldiers from the "Kampinos" Group of the Home Army who died in the Battle of Jaktorów fought on September 29, 1944. After the battle, the bodies of the fallen soldiers from the "Kampinos" Group were buried in the war cemetery in Budy Zosine. In the 1950s, however, the communist authorities decided to liquidate the cemetery and transfer the remains to the Warsaw Insurgents' Cemetery in the capital. These actions were met with strong opposition from the veterans' community. Nearly 1,000 people signed a letter of protest. Veterans and their families also attempted to intervene with various state and party bodies, even at the ministerial level. Ultimately, the authorities agreed to relocate the bodies and rebuild the cemetery[220]. Currently, the remains of 132 soldiers of the "Kampinos" Group who died on September 29, 1944, are buried in the war cemetery in Budy Zosine, located about 3 km from the railway stop in Jaktorów - including the remains of Major Alfons Kotowski, pseudonym "Okoń". Only in 75 cases were the surnames or pseudonyms of those buried

On September 29, 1944, the last battle of the AK Group "Kampinos" soldiers took place in the village. At the end of the Warsaw Uprising, on September 27, the Kampinos Group marched out of the Kampinos Forest, attempting to reach the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. On September 29, while trying to cross the Warsaw-Żyrardów railway line, it was surrounded by German forces in the village of Budy Zosine and defeated after a heavy battle.

Great cafe at the back of the palace

was established in 1914