Since I know that there are many Polish forumers active, I'd like to ask you to post some pictures of this commieblock paradise near Kraków. I heard it's one of the most striking examples of communist planning and I was very impressed by seeing its map, so i'll be very pleased if you have some.

i have only few pics of newest parts of nh:
http://tordall.republika.pl/nh/Capture1.jpg
http://tordall.republika.pl/nh/Capture2.jpg
http://tordall.republika.pl/nh/Capture3.jpg
http://tordall.republika.pl/nh/Capture4.jpg
http://tordall.republika.pl/nh/Capture5.jpg
http://tordall.republika.pl/nh/hhh.jpg

This is old first part of NOWA HUTA
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/aerial%20view.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/across%20andersa.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/aleja%20roz%202.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/view%20thru%20archway.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/centrum%20b.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/corner%20al%20solidarnosci.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/osiedle%20willowe%202.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/wandy%2014.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.info/images/osiedle%20stalowe%203.jpg

That is not really beautiful

And the architecture is very darkly , thats makes me somehow depressive !!!!

i agree, even though commies are all over the eastern part of europe, it's a totall sadness to see how most of the commies bring extreme depression to the city.

I'm impressed! The architecture on the last pics doesn't look like commieblocks at all, but more like older inner city architecture. When was it build? It just need some renovation to make it look nicer. Aren't there any highrise commies by the way?

More photos:)

Building process:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/04879.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/04882.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/04886.jpg
Some old pictures:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/alroz/010_big.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/alroz/0992.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/alroz/3.jpg
teatre:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0556.jpg
Arka Pana Church:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0157.jpg
some commies:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0559.jpg
kombinat:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0561.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0569.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/komb/7.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/komb/bt.jpg
art:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0571.jpg
leisure:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0573.jpg

this pic hmm something strange by the way for me pretty something like this I can imagine 50s ...looks very futuristic and has speciall colours and feeling:)
and behind city space rocket ..you know ...just picture looks that way ..you can
expect anythink

you can maybe nominate with pol this picture if you have bigger version !

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/alroz/010_big.jpg

Perfect! When was it built? Reminds me of EUR in Rome

Whole discrit was builded between 1949 and 1951 and it was planned as a new city, near the historical city Cracow.

and here is an article from wikipedia :
"Nowa Huta (literally New Steel Mill) - is the easternmost district of Kraków. With more than 200 000 inhabitants it is one of the most populous areas of the city.

The Krakow suburb of Nowa Huta, north east of the City.Contents



Following the establishment of the People's Republic of Poland, the Communist authorities had encountered substantial resistance to their regime from middle-class Cracovians. A referendum held by the authorities was soundly defeated by the people of Kraków, a major cause of embarrassment for the Government. To "correct the class imbalance", the authorities commenced building a satellite industrial town to attract people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to the region, such as peasants and the working class.

Nowa Huta was started in 1949 as a separate town near Kraków on terrain resumed by the Communist Government from the former villages of Mogiła, Pleszów and Krzesławice. It was planned as a huge centre of heavy industry. The town was to become an ideal town for the communist authorities and was to be populated with industry workers mostly. In 1951 it was joined with Kraków as a separate district and the following year tramway communication was started.

On July 22, 1954 the Lenin Steel Works were opened and in less than 20 years the factory became the biggest steel mill in Poland. In the 1960s the city grew rapidly. The monumental architecture of the Central Square (Plac Centralny) was surrounded by huge blocks of flats. In the 1970s the steel production reached 7 millions tonnes of steel yearly. At the same time the biggest tobacco factory in Poland was opened and a huge cement factory.

The reasons for building such an industrial town near Kraków were mostly ideological and were against laws of economy (both the coal and iron ore had to be transported from Silesia, and the products were shipped to other parts of Poland since local demand was relatively small). This became visible in the 1980s, when the economical crisis halted the city's growth. However, the remaining industry is a constant threat both to historical monuments of the Kraków old town and to city's inhabitants.

Currently the monumental socrealist centre is considered a monument of architecture.

One building lacking from the plans of Nowa Huta was a church. A campaign to establish one grew after the election of the Polish cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II and the subsequent rise of Solidarity, which made the issue a significant focus of its activities. As a result of this campaign, the town was brought to world attentio
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Nowahuta.jpg

And more...
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0141.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/06577.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0147.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0145.jpg
More commies this time:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0137.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0152.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0167.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0570.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0572.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0151.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/06549.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/06610.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0238.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0575.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0160.jpg
"Wandy"neighbourhood first neighbourhood in "Nowa Huta"
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0267.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0266.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0265.jpg

Stefana Żeromskiego hospital:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0120.jpg
"Mistrzejowski" Church:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0822.jpg
Old post cards:
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/05938.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/05932.jpg
http://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/0550.jpg

Hope you like it just like me:)

I realy like this district. Pictures are great ;)
Hip- hop from Nowa Huta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwL-lpfgQ48

yeah one of only two examples commiecities built from scratch
pity it wasnt finished like planned
Does anyone have plan how it should look like(i guess town hall and few buildings are missing)

^^
Original plan:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/grzaniec/nh/nowahuta2.jpg
brown-never realized
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/04202.jpg

town hall:
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/0/3117/z3117910G.jpghttp://www.nowahuta.org.pl/zdjecia/galerie/04883.jpghttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/plcrat0001.jpg

few other buildings ;):

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/7/3133/z3133607G.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/1/3133/z3133051G.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/8/3133/z3133608G.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/6/3133/z3133606G.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/grzaniec/nh/nowahuta3.jpghttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/wame.egnat/modell004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/grzaniec/nh/nowahuta.jpg

:(

Most of the pictures here have nothing to do with commieblocks. This is the old part of Nowa Huta (socrealism and some part postmodernism).

If it was to be renewed You'd be amazed.

Socialist Realism (socrealism):

wiki

The doctrine of socialist realism in Poland, as in other countries of the People's Republics, was enforced from 1949 to 1956. It involved all domains of art, but its most spectacular achievements were made in the field of architecture. The main lines of this new trend were very precisely indicated in a 1949 resolution of the National Council of Party Architects. Architecture was an extremely important weapon to the creators of a new social order. It was intended to help to form a socialist theme - the ideas sparking citizens' consciousness and outlook on life. During this great work, a crucial role fell to an architect who wasn't perceived as merely an engineer creating streets and edifices, but an "engineer of the human soul". The general outlook of a building was more valued than its simple aesthetics. It needed to express social ideas, to arouse a feeling of persistence and power.

Since the Renaissance style was generally regarded as the style most characteristic of Polish architecture, it was to become Poland's socialist national format. However, in the course of incorporating the principles of socialist realism, there were quite a few deviations introduced. One of these was to more closely reflect Soviet architecture, which resulted in the majority of works blending into one another; and finally the general acceptance of the classicist form. From 1953, critical opinions were increasingly frequently heard, and the doctrine was finally given up in 1956.

Now, since I've rented a flat in Nowa Huta for some time I can post some pictures of commieblocks from a part called Bieńczyce.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/4477/oswysokiehuta2006001su5.jpg


http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/4888/oswysokiehuta2006002rb7.jpg


http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1372/oswysokiehuta2006003gc9.jpg


http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8534/oswysokiehuta2006004vu8.jpg


http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6615/oswysokiehuta2006015wt1.jpg


http://img313.imageshack.us/img313/1800/oswysokiehuta2006016ug7.jpg


http://img313.imageshack.us/img313/4817/oswysokiehuta2006017wz3.jpg


http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7848/oswysokiehuta2006008vi3.jpg


http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7240/oswysokiehuta2006019py1.jpg


http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7393/oswysokiehuta2006020um3.jpg


http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3672/oswysokiehuta2006025qj1.jpg


http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3972/oswysokiehuta2006028al2.jpg


http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7913/oswysokiehuta2006029fg3.jpg


http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1323/oswysokiehuta2006030od0.jpg

Do I see that correctly - they painted the cooling tower???!!!! That's what I want here for decades! :lol:

Latter photos and also former old photos are very nice! Again I hit the idea that cities looked much better when thay were just built (usually after WWII) and trees weren't that big as today. So there are wide empty areas and you can see "more". And the wide bluey tower (cooling tower?) --- extraordinary idea!

Since I know that there are many Polish forumers active, I'd like to ask you to post some pictures of this commieblock paradise near Kraków. I heard it's one of the most striking examples of communist planning and I was very impressed by seeing its map, so i'll be very pleased if you have some.

Are You sure, You want them? :P
it may be unpredictable when I'll start to post them (just like I,m)

Just do it!

the last time i was in a flat in "ul. Bitschana" and saw a LOT of commieblocks in front of the window .... was this part of nova huta ? i think no ...

i drove from park wlodny a few minutes by taxi ... but i think they´re in another direction ? !


anyone has an answer

Some pictures from Na Stoku housing estate in Nowa Huta. If somebody wants and can, may post some of them here

http://nowej.hucie.w.interia.pl/mini-na-stoku-1.html (site is in polish language)

the last time i was in a flat in "ul. Bitschana" and saw a LOT of commieblocks in front of the window .... was this part of nova huta ? i think no ...

i drove from park wlodny a few minutes by taxi ... but i think they´re in another direction ? !


anyone has an answer

I cant recognize the name of the street. Wchich way did you go from "Park wodny" ? West or East? NH is on East

i got out and drove right ... then right again ... and there i was ...

dpon´t know the direction



isn´t nova huta left from geant ?

isn´t nova huta left from geant ?

:yes:

i get chaotic in my brain with all those shopping centrs.

cause of the hilly area i didnt´realize how big the area is .... how many km² are they ?


anyone knows ?!

nowa huta hip hop video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7imG1JuXcA

Nowa Huta in pictures:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/230104?comment_page=1&photo_page=3
http://www.nowahutastudy.info/History/History1.html

thank you very much for the link of the history of Nowa Huta.
There also some other towns in east europe constructed in the same time and with a similiar approach to architecture.

Havrirov in the Czech Republic

http://www.empefoto.cz/index.php?menu=m_album&&ev_cis=28

Ostrava-Poruba also in the Czech Republic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poruba_(Ostrava)

Eisenhüttenstadt in Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhüttenstadt

and maybe Dunaújváros in Hungary, but with a more modern architecture at that time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunaújváros

Also Silesia in general would be a candidate with a plenty of other projects for mass housing in the 50s, because this area used to be rich of steel and iron mills.

Thanks
The only City known to me was Ostrava.
But, I think they're all in better situation than Nowa Huta. They're all "independent" cities. Nowa Huta is "glued" to the Krakow, and from almost begining is acting as a worker for a company. So never had a chance to get rich. To make matters worse, Krakow is very antycomunistic, and treated NH as a bastion of evil, even if NH was a bastion of solidarity in fact. Unwanted, abused, neglected and paradoxally abandoned child till today.