The Flax Spinning Mill in Mys?akowice near Jelenia Góra,Poland

Abstract

The Orze? flax spinning industry in Mys?akowice has a manufacturing tradition extending back to 1839 when the Flachsgarn Maschinen Spinnerei und Weberei was set up in Erndmansdorf in Lower Silesia. The development of the works is documented by well-preserved factory buildings in which the same manufacturing process has been taking place for 150 years. The cast iron frame of the spinning mill may also be regarded as a pioneering structure in Silesian industrial buildings.