Jakub Wojdysławski Building

The Jakub Wojdysławski Building stands at Piotrkowska 123, between the Ramiszów Family Building and the Edward Heiman Building. It is another of the rental buildings on the pedestrianised street, behind which lay a small textile factory in the nineteenth century.

From Czech weaver to manufacturer Wojdysławski

The plot at the current number 123 was taken over in 1834 by August Diesner, a weaver who had come from Bohemia. Over the subsequent decades of the nineteenth century, the property changed hands several times, belonging among others to the families Kutsche, Bischoff, Müller, Hoffman and Kałuszyner. In the early 1880s, Jakub Wojdysławski purchased it.

Building and wool mill

A two-storey front building was erected according to the design of architect Ignacy Markiewicz from 1883, and by the late 1890s the building was already three storeys. In 1888, Jakub Wojdysławski built a three-storey manual wool goods mill in the courtyard to service his enterprise.

Relocation of production

Around the mid-1890s, production was moved to factory buildings at the junction of what are now Gdańska and Zamenhofa streets, bought from the partnership of Henryk Vive and the successors of Józef John, the same Józef John whose machine factory and iron foundry operated at Piotrkowska 217-221. At Piotrkowska 123 there remained a goods storage facility and the headquarters of Wojdysławski's company. In the early twentieth century, the enterprise also expanded production at Piotrkowska 212–216, and the house register from 1920 lists as owners the successors, that is the heirs of Jakub Wojdysławski.

In the vicinity

Slightly further along the pedestrianised street stands the Paulina and Engelbert Tischner Building, and opposite it the Schicht Family Building. Together they form a row of buildings from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, typical of this part of Piotrkowska.

Practical information

• Address: Piotrkowska 123, Łódź
• Access: by tram or bus to stops on Piotrkowska, then on foot along the pedestrianised street
• What to expect: a heritage front building viewed from outside, surrounded by other nineteenth-century rental buildings