Attractions and Places To See around Żyrardów - Top 20

The old water mill in Korytowo is a historic, 19th-century building on the Pisia Gągolina river. Built in the 1870s, it supplied flour for the workers of the developing Żyrardów. Today, it is a picturesque ruin, accessible on local cycling and hiking routes.

I don't know if it's more beautiful inside or out. I've been there several times, and it always makes me stop and go inside.

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.

Mill on the Pisi River in Korytów. The history of the 3-storey mill is partly connected with Dittrich and Hielle; the then owners of the Żyrardów Plants. They decided to start their own brick production. This was connected with the dynamic development of Żyrardów and the expansion of the factory, as well as the need to provide housing for an increased number of workers and administrative and technical staff. For this purpose, they leased 20 morgas of land from the Krasińskis, where there were rich deposits of high-quality clay, and in 1870 a brickyard was built. The brick from Radziejowice, apart from its good properties, was characterized by a dark red color. It was exported to Russia. The entire Żyrardów factory was built from it, as well as many public utility buildings. Hielle and Dittrich established social relations with Count Krasiński, who willingly hosted wealthy entrepreneurs from Żyrardów. Both parties liked gambling. After winning at cards with Count Krasiński, Dittrich and Hielle became owners of the mill settlements of Koryty and Hamernia, and consequently of the mills. For the exploitation of the forest and the transport of bricks, Żyrardów entrepreneurs built a narrow-gauge railway line Żyrardów - Radziejowice.

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.