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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.

Resursa is a term for a social club, e.g. of merchants, landowners, etc., as well as the premises of such a club. The factory resursa in Żyrardów was established around 1870. It housed the Association of Officials of the Joint-Stock Company of Żyrardów Plants. The interior was decorated with splendor. Regulars had at their disposal quiet offices, a specialist library with a reading room, a billiard room and rooms for playing cards. Guest salons were located on the first floor. The theatre (ballroom) hall was enriched with gildings and colorful wall paintings.

Philippe Henri de Girard (born February 1, 1775 in Lourmarin, Provence, died August 26, 1845 in Paris) – French engineer and inventor. He was born into a wealthy Calvinist bourgeois family. At the age of 14, he constructed a device for obtaining energy from sea waves. In 1810, he took part in a competition announced by the French government to build a flax fiber spinning machine. The spinning machine he invented was able to spin 150 km of thread from one kilogram of flax[1]. This device revolutionized the process of producing linen fabrics. In 1812, he launched a plant with 2,000 spindles in Paris. In 1818, while living in Vienna, he constructed a flax combing machine and a machine for producing flax yarn from tow. In the years 1825–1844, he lived in Poland. In 1825, he was appointed by Prince Franciszek Ksawery Drucki Lubecki, Minister of the Treasury of the Kingdom of Poland, to the position of Chief Mechanic at the Mining Department of the Government Commission of Revenue and Treasury. His duties included installing mechanical devices in mines and steelworks and improving existing ones. He modernized, among others, mechanical plants in Białogon, Samsonów, Sielpia and the zinc smelter "Ksawery" near Będzin. In 1828, he installed a water turbine of his own design in Dowspuda. He got involved in the November Uprising - he developed a technique for producing rifle stocks, and the linen factory in Marymont, of which he was the technical director, switched to the production of weapons. The linen factory in Marymont near Warsaw was moved to the village of Ruda Guzowska in 1833. The town of Żyrardów, established on the territory of Ruda Guzowska and the surrounding villages, took its name from him. In 1880, 16,000 spindles were working in this spinning mill.

The author of the outdoor sculpture made in bronze is the sculptor Wojciech Gryniewicz. The Railwayman Monument was unveiled on June 14, 2015 on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway.

It was one of the first stations of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway (Warsaw-Vienna Railway) – a railway line connecting Warsaw with the border of the Austrian partition (Galicia). The first railway line in the then Kingdom of Poland. The first section was built in 1845. The current station building was built in 1922-1924 according to the design of the architectural section of the Warsaw Railway Directorate under the supervision of Bronisław Brochwicz-Rogóyski and his deputies Romuald Miller and Józef Wołkanowski[4], on the site of the building destroyed during World War I. Since 1972, it has been entered into the register of historical monuments. In the 1990s, the building underwent a thorough renovation. A plaque was then funded, commemorating the arrival of the first Warsaw-Vienna Railway train at Grodzisk station on 14 June 1845.

Bajka Park in Błonie has an area of 2600 square meters. Entrance to it is free. The park with an entertainment complex is located at ul. Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego 10, in the town of Błonie. It is open from Monday to Thursday from 8:00 to 21:00, on weekends from 8:00 to 22:00.

The chapel standing surrounded by trees is linked by human memory to the years of the January Uprising. At that time, the graves and places where patriots were executed could not be described, a sign was placed on them - a cross, a stone, and information about who, when and why died was passed down orally from generation to generation. [Krystyna Ładyżyńska-Adamowicz, Chapels of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune]