Travel Guide
Petersilge's House
Jan Petersilge is an honorable figure of the Lodz printing and the local press. He started the first local newspaper, which first came out in 1863. The publisher's house was erected in 1896, its authors were F. Chelminski and K. Pomian-Sokolowski. The luxurious town house used to house the shops, the editorial board's office, some other offices, a printing house, and some private flats on the higher floors.
The three - storey facade was given a particularly interesting shape, a kind of tribute paid to the makers of modern printing and the manifestation of the owner's pride of his profession. In the niche of the centrally located oriel the statue of the Moguntian Johann Guttenberg was placed, while in the six ceramic medallions on both sides of the main axis there appeared the profile portraits of Stangope, Daguerr, Schasser, Fust, the Breitkopf brothers, Direr and Senefelder - all of them being people of merit in the domain of the "black art". The adequate motifs correspond to them - hammers, gravers, printing presses, as well as coats of arms and horned mascarons. [Lodz]
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