@. Ul. Kasprzaka 25
architect. ?
finished. 1888 (closed 1978)
It all started with the city of Warsaw ceding the rights to provide gas to a German concern. The first gas lines, used to illuminate apartments and city streets, were installed along Nowy Swiat, Krakowskie Przedmiescie, Ksiazeca and Ludna in 1857, demand quickly increased, a new gas works needed to be built. And so the giant compound on Kasprzaka came to be. It used coal to produce gas, and in 1978 it was closed when this method of production was replaced by hi-methane ground gas.
Much of the factory compound is well preserved. There is a museum to visit. I haven't been but check it out, as well as this neat virtual tour. For some reason these massive silo-like buildings haven't been maintained. Apparently they are called gasometers and were used to regulate gas pressure in tubes by immersing them in pools of water. They remind me of Dickens/Gaskell as well as Phillip Pullman. This is what was done with similar gasometers in Vienna.
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