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Stanislaw Barszczak — Częstochowa is a great city! —
There are two Częstochowa in the world, in the United States and city of ours. I dream of a third party. View from Częstochowa with the Jasna Gora is known around the world. Częstochowa is not only a good city, but an unforgettable city. Częstochowa – a city of business, science, culture and fun. Known around the world one thanks to the old image of Our Lady on the monastery of the Order of the Pauline at Jasna Góra. This one began to exist was probably in the eleventh century. However, it was first mentioned in 1220 on the bishop’s of Cracow Iwo Odrowąż document, imposing the obligation to pay tithes by Częstochowa population. Częstochowa received the civic rights in 1356. Prince Wladyslaw of Opole in 1382 founded a monastery of the Pauline here. The kings of the house of Vasa (who especially loved the monastery of Czestochowa), decided to attach it to modern Dutch type fortifications with bastions, which made the Jasna Gora one of the most powerful fortresses in the whole country, in the Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita). In 1655 during the Swedish ‘deluge’(the Swedish’s army invasion of Poland), that floods the entire country in less than a month’s siege, the crew of a small monastery, under the leadership of Father Augustine Kordecki, as one last she was an attack prevailing an attack of Swedish troops. While the Confederation of Bar Częstochowa became one of the major sites of resistance and shelter of the confederate army. France was helping militarily by sending them their best military instructors. Thanks to help of this country the Confederate army won Czestochowa and Wawel Castle. Here in Czestochowa, Casimir Pulaski, who was a leading military commander of the Confederacy, became famous for his daring defense of the Jasna Gora against the Russian army Gen. Ivan Drewicz and Polish king’ army (since 31 December 1770 to 14 January 1771). At first there were old Częstochowa and Częstochówka (city rights from 1717 as the New Czestochowa), which were merged into one city on August 19, 1826 year. In 1819, it was marked out by the military engineer John Bernhard the most important city road – St Mary Avenue (now Avenue of the Blessed Virgin Mary). In connection with its location at the Warsaw-Vienna railroad (from 17 November 1846), the presence of iron ore deposits (now depleted), deposits of limestone and clean and abundant water in the river in Częstochowa since 1870 began to develop the metal industry (Huta Czestochowa, whose construction initiated Bernard Hantke), textile and paper industries. In 1909 the city was the Great Exhibition of Agro-Industry. Czestochowa was experiencing rapid growth, result in around 60 large industrial plants, 3-fold increase in the number of inhabitants. Czestochowa had a monopoly in the processing of jute (90% of national production), product accessories (80% market share), toys (70%). During World War I Czestochowa was on August 3, 1914 year she was took without fighting by the German army. From the April 26, 1915 to 4 November 1918 Jasna Góra was a Catholic enclave occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1925 in Czestochowa is the seat of the bishopric (archbishop from 1992.) Due to the development of crafts, especially by a production of souvenirs she was called a “small city of Nuremberg.” Germany once again entered the city on Sept. 3, 1939 and the next day made the murders, which went down in history as “bloody Monday”. After the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising Częstochowa was the capital of the Polish Underground State. January 16, 1945, after fighting all day, Częstochowa left the German garrison and the city was occupied by Soviet troops of the Chochriakow Semyon (major-rank). In the Polish People’s Republic rapid expansion of steel mill, which has gained the name of Boleslaw Bierut (after 1989 returned to the original – Huta Częstochowa), resulted in rapid development of the city. In addition to the Jasna Gora monastery museum and exhibition activities also carry out other institutions: City Hall – a historic complex of buildings of the former town hall, now headquarters of the Museum, the archaeological reserve area of the Lusatian culture in Rakow; Iron Ore Mining Museum, the Museum of Poświatowska Halina; Museum of the production of matches, Railway History Museum at the station Stradom Częstochowa, the Museum of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa, Zdzislaw Beksinski Museum, Museum of Imagination – a gallery and studio of Thomas Sętowskiego; Gallery Konduktorownia. The most important cultural institutions should Częstochowa Częstochowa Philharmonic, Theatre. Adam Mickiewicz University and the Center for Culture Promotion “Gaude Mater”. Sport in Częstochowa, mainly volleyball, football and speedway. The most famous are the club volleyball and club AZS Częstochowa and speedway club of Częstochowa Włókniarz. Częstochowa: the city is building a sports hall at the world championships in men’s volleyball in 2014. In Częstochowa are the universities: Polish Virtual University, Technical University of Czestochowa, Polonia University, University of them. Jan Dlugosz, University FOREIGN LANGUAGES, School of Management, College of Hotel and Tourism, the Central School of State Fire Service, Seminary of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa. So, Częstochowa -is not only a great center of culture and tradition and civilization, is even more admirable. This is a piece of the country closest to the Pole. They stay here for those who were born there and the people who settled in the area recently. There are people working here, which, like locusts each day and every night, the city spit. But most of the tourists and pilgrims. Commuters are useful to the city a healthy concern, the residents of stability and continuity, but the pilgrims give it passion. And if it is a farmer arriving from a small town, or a boy arriving from Silesia and the pain in my heart, it does not matter: each includes Czestochowa intense emotions of first love, each absorbs Czestochowa fresh from the adventures, each generates heat and light of the new year. Czestochowa is full of people who are very satisfied with life in various parts of the city. People choose to live in a flat on the Avenue, but now it does not already raised the threshold of milk every morning as it was in the seventies of the last century. I a genealogy is the only mention of the cousin who went to live in Czestochowa in 1991. One hears even today that people are going to seek his fortune at Czestochowa, but many of them looking for that contrariwise, conversely upside. In the case of the cousin, however, says that it is part of the pattern of the family. Over the years his family has changed and had lost himself in an ironic gift to action. The family was honorable, eventually but turned to the inside. Great-grandfather what he said was sacred and acted appropriately and he did not care what anybody thinks about this and that. The next-generation grandfather, seemed to know what it used to, but he was not as confident as the great-grandfather. Yes he was brave. While father though he was the most brave man, and he said simply that he did not care what others think. He wanted to act with honor. But he was ironic. For him it was not a small thing to walk the Avenue normal September morning. He was eventually killed by his own irony and sadness, and by the pinch of the life on account of honor. As for the present young man, the last of the line, he seems to be saying that he did not know what to think. So he became an observer and listener and a wanderer. He could not get enough of watching only. Once, when a boy, sitting in his yard Street of ‘Seven houses’ and threatened the hostile passers-by by his stentorian voice. Today he is a passer, and a boy looking at him all day. Now he even sat down close to him and looked around, listening intently with his mouth open, as a boy was playing a tune with the Vienna Philharmonics repertuar on verbal harmonica. He seems to be asking himself about what happens to a man, who learns the great secret of life … I used to come to Czestochowa by train forty years ago, time with Mom for the first time, we went through the prospect of Soviet soldiers on the square place Dr. Wladyslaw Bieganski, Long Avenue, in the end we reach the peak of the mountain. And so began my study of the only city in the world. From the Jasna Gora up, Piotrkowska street’ the minor seminary, bookstores, church of saint Barbara, the cinemas, to traveling here the popes. And now suddenly, after many years I was in the third Avenue like the Australian man from the antipodes. I left half of the globe, to stand now on the Third Avenue once more, in the middle of rush hour, I arrived as if from my innocent roads, to enter the daily absolute madness and fantastic tumult of the crowd, in his crazy dream, catching them, taking, giving, sighing die. A tall tower of Jasna Gora in front of me grows from the ground by appealing to our deepest hidden feelings. I stood in the door of the bus, I did not take money for the ticket. You know, Olsztyn is a few kilometers from the city gallery. It was dusk. W suddenly I asked myself in the spirit: where is my friend Kazimierz? Where Mama, where Pastor? Nobody is here? I had to go to my room, lay my head and think about losses and gains of life. Rather than beg for money for the bus he intended to go on foot. I finally went to a Japanese professor who was behind the corner. I’ve got a penny. You imagine now, I came back from a long journey. Quickened my pace I was going directly to the bus. I imagined once again that in a few minutes I’ll start with my life again, which no one will know or approve of. Sometimes in my head, walking on the Avenue, with my virtual friends, as if it were at any times, I’m going to their homes in the hidden corners of the streets, turn around and smile at people, before they disappear ‘in the door’ warm darkness. In the enchanted twilight, I felt the loneliness of the city, which haunt us sometimes, my room “go away” somehow to the meeting tonight. Then the others are poor, young officers loitering in front of windows. I did not stop, however, to expect anything else-until it was time for a solitary dinner in the restaurant. Young people, teenagers also, in the dark, they used to waste the most poignant moments of night and life, I suppose. Finally, at eight o’clock, when the taxi cars taking people to the theater, I felt only joy sinking in my heart. Someone he sang out of the car, but there was laughter, but unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes, and unintelligible gestures inside. I imagined that me also, to the merriment I hurry and release that close to all the excitement, that I always wanted, they felt that some good all around… I also remember it was cold in the autumn and the dark came very early. Electric light was lit, and it was nice to walk the streets, looking in the window. Different games were hung outside the shops, and the snow cleared fur foxes and their tails. Deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds have spread their feathers. It was cold outdoors. We were all in the monastery, every afternoon, and there were different ways of spending time in prayer. Two routes were along the Avenue, but they were long. But you could always cross the Avenue Sienkiewicz to go in the direction of Jasna Gora. I remember a woman close to the stairs that sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm there, it had been fire, and there were hot chestnuts in her pocket. The monastery was very old and very beautiful, and I walked through the gate and walked through the courtyard, and outside of the gate on the other side were the new brick pavilions, and there we met and everyone was very polite and very interested to know what’s going around … I remember my Czestochowa riotous youth also. It was about eleven o’clock at night, in mid-October, the sun never shines, but the hard, wet rain shines bright at the foot of the mountain. I was wearing my jacket in a blue suit, dark blue shirt, tie and handkerchief, shoes black, black wool socks on the hands of the watch. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober. On the other side of the street he walked another well-dressed dandy, as befits a private detective. But I do not see me in the main hallway of the building with two floors. Behind the entrance door, through which it could have to pass a herd of elephants in India, there was a general silence over the door of a stained glass window depicted a knight in armor, as he intended you to save a woman who was tied to a tree and was just nightgown, had very long hair. Knight pushed the helmet and face appeared sociable. But he was weak, if he sensed that they do not get it does not get his hands to her tree. I stood there and thought that if I lived in this house, sooner or later have to climb up there and help her. Former French doors on the back of the hall, and behind them a broad bed of emerald grass, the White House faced a Porsche, a young, slim, dark chauffeur walks in shiny suit. In addition to the garage were some decorative trees trimmed. Behind them, a huge greenhouse with a domed roof. Further more trees in the dim light passing into the evening in the piedmont. On the eastern side of the hall was the staircase with a wrought iron and stained glass of another piece. High chairs with rounded red, plush armchairs, filled the open spaces around the walls. Did not look as if someone had ever sit in them. In the mid-west wall was a big fireplace with a grate, the brass hinges on four, and over the fireplace ‘danced’ on the corners with marble Cupids. Above the fireplace was a huge oil portrait, and over the and pennants on a portrait of towns and football teams destroyed or eaten by moths. Presented a portrait of an officer on horseback at the time of the Confederation of Bar. Officer groomed, with black eyes and the mustache. I thought it might be the grandfather of the hosts. I still looked hot in those black eyes when the door opened far back under the stairs. It was not the butler, who returns from a distance. There was not a waiter, lifeguard of the pool, but it was a girl, the wisteria flowers in her hands… Ever I heard conversation Mrs. Tony Morrison, Nobel Prize winner in 1993 with young boys, who came to her with a problem: the bird is our hands, but tell us whether he is alive or dead? Because we’re young, immature. We have already heard everything about our short life we have to be responsible. The poet said: “But nothing is need to explain since we have (everything) is impertinent.” Thus, our heritage is an affront. You want to have an old, blank eyes and see only cruelty and mediocrity. Do you think we’re stupid enough to swore in vain again to the patriotism? How dare you talk to us about responsibility, when we stand waist-deep in toxins your past? Trivialize us and despise the bird, which is not in our hands. Do not have a context for our lives, there is no work, literature, poems full of vitamins, no history connected with the experience that you can go to help us begin anew? You are strong and wise adult. But stop to think about saving your face. Think about our lives and share their individual world. Make-up on the story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the moment, something is created. Do not blame you if your reach exceeds your fingertips, if you love your lights and they go up in flames and are not. If the burn is in the hands of a surgeon, your words are the only places on the seams where blood can flow. We know that you can never do it properly – once and for all. Even passion is never enough, even t talent is not even the ability to last. But I try. For our safety and your forget your name on the street, tell us what was the world for you in dark places and light. Do not tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us the faith and a wide skirt, stitch, which absorbs fat fear. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language, which tells us what he can language: how to see without pictures or photos. Language alone protects us from the littleness of things without a name. Language alone is meditation. “Tell us, what it means to be a woman, so we can know what it means to be male, which moves in the margin, what it means to not have a home in this place, and drift from the one that you knew what it meant to live on the outskirts of cities that cannot bear your company.” Mrs. Morrison talking about the hot interesting friendship finally ended their problem: “In the end,” she says:”I trust you, I trust you with the bird, which is not in your hands, because you’ve gotten really (you) to him. Look how beautiful it is, this thing we’ve done-together”. … But now the city, the first time in its long history, is destructible , is sometimes destroyed by the ideology of earthly existence. A single flight of no more than geese may quickly destroy this fantastic island in the middle of Polish, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, overpasses, railways, underground passages, and turn it into a lethal chamber cremation million. Notice of the deaths is now part of Częstochowa, in the sounds of Appeal, in a black report from the latest editions of online newspapers , television news. All the inhabitants of the city have to live with such a stubborn fact of annihilation, Częstochowa, this fact is somewhat less clear because of the fragmentation of the city on a larger space. cities with skyscrapers and ‘skyscrapers’, although the life of a concentrated due to the concentration itself city, where everything is almost at a stone’s throw, is have a certain clear priority. I’m crazy about this city. You built to Our Lady the only skyscraper, in the lovely friendship Częstochowa! Let this event will not be based on free market enterprise, but only on the truth about human transience. Jasna Gora speaks of eternity, and the pyramid of friendship would finally tell all about “steamboat dying.” I strongly believe in the absent or hidden fund of Częstochowa, Częstochowa women in their tower of conscience, that was answering to me. I can see, slanting rays of light, razor-cut buildings in half. At the top of a skyscraper window, I see the face of absent-minded, who wants something from me … But then there is a shade below, where they take place bad things of this world: giggles and love, fists and sad voices of women. The city makes a dream tall and feel different things. When I look out on the strip of green grass on the Warta River in the majestic towers of our department and look for the creamy-copper halls of buildings housing, I am strong. City of me is alone, yes-but only at the highest level and indestructible! People are in the shadow of this motif happy. Finally, in the end, everything is against us. And once again repeated force when calling to you: forget about it … the story ended there, everyone and everything is before us in the end. In his mind, however perverse dreamer who loses the lightning in the eye, at the dawn of the third millennium, Częstochowa must have a continuous, irresistible charm. And that’s a good town today is no longer to be a good one, like town’s banners proclaim that yet. This city can be unique and wonderful for ever.

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