52 Sights in Łódź, Poland (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Łódź, Poland. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 52 sights are available in Łódź, Poland.
Sightseeing Tours in ŁódźActivities in Łódź1. Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych, oddz. „Stacja Radegast”
The Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź – the longest functioning historical museum in Łódź, established in 1959 under the name "Museum of the History of the Revolutionary Movement"; local governments, collecting all kinds of souvenirs from the field of independence traditions, primarily from Łódź, the Łódź region and selectively Polish. Its Radogoszcz branch specializes in the history of the German occupation of 1939–1945 in Łódź and the Łódź region. As the heir of the Museum of the History of the Revolutionary Movement (1959–1990), it has an important collection of documents, photographs and fine arts from the period of the Polish People's Republic, from Łódź and the region. The collection also contains many unique materials related to the history of Łódź and the Łódź region.
2. Park Źródła Olechówki
Source Park Olechówka – a city park in Łódź located between the Victims of Terrorism 11 Wrzyński and the streets: Kazimierz Odniówiów and Bolka Świdnicki, in the Olechów estate. It was established in 2010. It includes an area of over 15 ha. The Olechówka river starts here. The park area is very wet and therefore its melioration is expected in the future. The planting of the park is a well preserved natural river basins along with a rich wood stand. The park has recreational functions mainly for the residents of Olechowa. There is also a place for grilling here, and in 2018 a brine tetanus was built in the park.
3. Teatr Powszechny
The Powszechny Theatre in Łódź – Polish Comedy Centre, a drama stage in Łódź with a distinctive artistic comedy logo. Since its establishment in 1945, it has been located at 21 Legionów Street. The theatre has two stages: the Large Stage and the Small Stage, which has been operating since 2012. It presents over 400 performances a year, with an average of over 130,000 spectators per year. Its current character, repertoire and the shape of its projects are derived from the original programme concept of director Ewa Pilawska, based on the principle of "Theatre Close to People".
4. Park Ocalałych
Survivors' Park is a park in Łódź commemorating people who survived the Łódź Ghetto, which was created and operated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The park was officially opened on 30 August 2004, the 60th anniversary of the liquidation of the ghetto. The park is located in the former territory of Łódź Ghetto, between Wojska Polskiego Street and allotment gardens at Sporna Street in the valley of the Lodz River, in the area adjacent to the borders of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto during the war in Smugowa Street. The park was designed by Grażyna Ojrzyńska.
5. Pomnik Lampiarza
The monument to the leopard or the nameless electrician was unveiled on September 21, 2007 next to the tenement house of Dawid Szmulewicz at 37 Piotrkowska Street. The 100th anniversary of the first power plant in Łódź was the opportunity. The founders of the monument are Dalkia Łódź SA and the Łódź Energy Plant. The monument presents a natural sized stylish lantern and a leopard with a bulb in the right hand, standing on a ladder supported by a pole. Next to it is a bag that is also a monument bench on which you can sit down.
6. Museum of the City of Lodz
The Museum of the City of Łódź – a local government cultural institution of the city, located in one of the most impressive buildings of the city, in the former palace of the Łódź factory owner Izrael Poznański at Ogrodowa Street. This residence is a landmark of Łódź and a testimony to its importance in the 19th century. The décor of the palace halls is neo-stylish, characteristic of the art of the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the simultaneous use of elements of Art Nouveau decoration.
7. Muzeum Książki Artystycznej
The Book Art Museum is a museum in Łódź established in 1993 by the Correspondance des Arts Foundation, founded in 1990 by Janusz Tryzna as an extension of the publishing house of the same name, which has been operating since 1980. The museum is located in Łódź, in Henryk Grohman's villa at 24 Tymienieckiego Street. As of 1 January 2023, the Book Art Museum in Łódź is a cultural institution established by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Correspondance des Arts Foundation.
8. Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a church located on the Church Square in Łódź. It is the seat of the parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the oldest and for almost five hundred years the only Catholic community in Łódź. It belongs to the network of Lenten station churches in Łódź. The church was built in the years 1887–1897 on the site of a wooden church of the same name, which was moved to the former cemetery square at 22 Ogrodowa Street.
Wikipedia: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Łodzi (PL)
9. Park Baden-Powella
Robert Baden-Powell – Chief Scout of the World Park – a park in Łódź, with an area of 15.8 hectares, located in the area of Małachowskiego and Niciarniana streets, from the west it borders with the 3 Maja Park, from the south with the railway tracks of the Łódź Fabryczna – Koluszki line. The park was named after the British general Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. The name was given to commemorate the centenary of the scouting movement in the world.
10. Park Helenów
Helenów Park in Łódź, Poland is a park located between Północna, Źródłowa and Smugowa streets and covers an area of 12 hectare. Of all park trees, five are natural monuments: two pedunculate oaks with a circumference of 320 and 340 cm, common beech with a circumference of 245 cm, red oak with a circumference of 350 cm and ash tree with a circumference of 385 cm. The park is entered in the Registry of Objects of Cultural Heritage.
11. Teatr Nowy im. Kazimierza Dejmka
The New Theatre in Łódź also known as the Kazimierz Dejmek New Theatre is one of the repertory theatres in Łódź (Poland), established in 1949. The theatre presents a varied programme, including international classic drama, and new plays by contemporary playwrights. In addition to performances at the Nowy Theatre building, the Nowy Theatre tours productions at theatres across the Łódź region, Poland and abroad.
12. Rudzka Góra
Rudzka Góra – a partially artificially built hill in Łódź, located in the Górna district, in the administrative housing estate of Ruda Pabianicka at Starorudzka Street. A natural fragment of Rudzka Góra is a post-glacial remnant. On the area of an interesting hill, there is a recreational complex with an area of about 11 hectares, where there is a possibility of practicing various types of sports or recreation.
13. Orientarium ZOO Łódź
The Łódź Zoo is a zoological garden in the city of Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship in Poland. Established in 1938, it covers the area of 16,64 hectares in the district of Polesie and is home to 3,350 animals representing 554 species, including endangered Asiatic lions. The zoo is the only zoological garden in Poland to feature such animals as giant otters, Sumatran orangutans, false gharials, and bush dogs.
14. Kaplica Heinzlów
The Heinzel Family Chapel is a tombstone chapel and mausoleum located in the Old Cemetery at Ogrodowa Street in Łódź. It was built between 1899 and 1903 in the Neo-Renaissance style, according to the design of the Berlin architect Franz Schwechten. It was erected to commemorate one of the largest manufacturers in Łódź, commissioned by the widow Paulina née Volkman and their descendants.
15. Pomnik Martyrologii Dzieci
The Monument to the Martyrdom of Children, the so-called Broken Heart in Łódź – unveiled on 9 May 1971. It commemorates the tragic fate of Polish children during World War II, especially the child prisoners of the nearby camp for Polish children and youth at Przemysłowa Street in Łódź. The monument is located in the Grey Ranks Park at the intersection of Bracka and Staszica streets.
16. Tablice Radegast
Radogoszcz station is a historic railway station in Łódź, Poland. The station, which was originally built between 1926 and 1937, was used extensively during The Holocaust. It served as the Umschlagplatz for transporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to the extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. The "loading platform" is in Marysin, a neighbourhood in the city's Bałuty district.
17. Sobór św. Aleksandra Newskiego
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Polish Orthodox church located in the city of Łódź, in central Poland. It was built in the late 19th century as a gift from the local industrialists to the small Orthodox community present in Łódź at the time. The church consists of many ornate elevations and has a richly decorated interior featuring an iconostasis manufactured in St. Petersburg.
18. Kościół św. Doroty (w odbudowie po spaleniu)
St. Dorothy's Church – a church in the Roman Catholic parish in Łódź in the Mileszki housing estate, in the Łódź-Stoki deanery of the Archdiocese of Łódź, located at 445 Pomorska Street, was one of the oldest preserved monuments in Łódź. The church was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, renovated at the beginning of the 21st century, and in 2015 it was destroyed by fire.
19. Pomnik Aleksandra Kamińskiego
The Aleksander Kamiński Monument is an open-air sculpture in the Old Town Park in Łódź. The monument depicts Aleksander Kamiński, dressed in a scout cape and a horned cap, sitting by a fire. Its author is Kazimierz Karpiński. The monument was unveiled on 24 September 2005 as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Łódź-Polesie Troop.
20. Park im. ks. bp. Michała Klepacza
Park Father Bishop Michał Klepacz-is located in the southwestern part of Śródmieście Łódź, between Wólczańska Street, Skorupki and Al. Polytechnics, in the Polesie district. The area of the park is 3.3 ha. The park has been owned by the Lodz University of Technology since 2017. In 2019, he was fenced and included in the Campus B of the Polytechnic.
21. Muzeum Sztuki MS1
Muzeum Sztuki, or the Museum of Art in Łódź, is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Łódź, Poland, whose main goal is to research and display the history of avant-garde art, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1931, Muzeum Sztuki is one of oldest institutions in the world dedicated to collecting modern art still in existence.
22. Kaplica św. Antoniego
St. Anthony's Chapel – one of the two Baroque wooden chapels located at 75 Rejsowa Street in Łódź-Łagiewniki. Together with the chapel of St. Roch and St. Sebastian, it has survived to the present day as the only one of the entire complex of Franciscan chapels in Łagiewniki, consisting of six buildings.
23. Dom przedpogrzebowy w Łodzi
The funeral home in Łódź is a funeral home located in the eastern part of the new Jewish cemetery in Łódź. Currently, it is the largest building of this type in Poland and one of the largest in the world. The building is entered into the provincial register of monuments under the number A/276.
24. Pomnik Katyński
The Katyn Monument in Łódź - the first monument in Poland commemorating the victims of the Katyn massacre standing in the open urban space, located on the Square of the Victims of the Katyn massacre at ul. Łąkowa near the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Łódź, unveiled on September 16, 1990.
25. Ogród Botaniczny
Łódź Botanical Garden them. Jakub Mowszowicz – a garden in ŁódŹowicz, was established in 1929 in the Źródliska park. After the end of World War II, a new botanical garden was started in the area adjacent to the Park in Health. Since 1988 the patron of the garden has been Jakub Mowszowicz.
26. Marszałek Józef Piłsudski
The Monument to Marshal Józef Piłsudski is a monument to Józef Piłsudski in Łódź, unveiled in 1997, located at the intersection of Kilińskiego and Traugutta Streets. The monument is placed on the paved square of the "Strzelec" Riflemen's Association, near the Łódź Cultural Centre.
Wikipedia: Pomnik Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi (PL)
27. Museum of the City of Lodz
The Izrael Poznański Palace is a 19th-century palace in Łódź, Poland. Initially the site of a tenement building, the property was transformed into a Neo-Renaissance and Neo-baroque style residence during the years 1888 to 1903. It currently houses the Museum of the City of Łódź.
28. Park Poniatowskiego
The Prince Józef Poniatowski Park in Łódź is a park in Łódź, Poland located between Żeromskiego, Mickiewicza, Jana Pawła II and Parkowa Streets. The area of the park is 41.6 ha. It was named in honour of Polish general and statesman Prince Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813).
29. Park Piłsudskiego
Marshal Józef Piłsudski Park, usually known as Park na Zdrowiu, is a historic and largest park in Łódź, covering an area of 188.21 hectares. It is located in the area of Unii Lubelska Avenue and the following streets: Srebrzyńska, Krakowska, Krzemieniecka and Konstantynowska.
30. Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny
The Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos is an Orthodox cemetery church in Łódź, Poland. It belongs to the parish of St. Alexander Nevsky in Łódź, in the Łódź deanery of the Łódź-Poznań diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Wikipedia: Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Łodzi (PL)
31. Plac Piastowski
Plac Piastowski - a square in Łódź located in the Bałuty district between the streets: Lutomierska, Bazarowa and Rybna. Currently, it is a holiday square, it is also a green area. It has the features of the park: a lot of trees grow there and alleys run.
32. Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza
The Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź, Poland is the oldest theatre in the region. It is a repertory theatre subordinate to the Marshall Office of the Łódź Voivodeship. During the years 1888-1949 it was known as the Polish Theatre and the City Theatre.
33. Kaplica Rodziny Scheibler
The Chapel of Karol Scheibler, is a major architectural work in Łódź, Poland, built in 1888 and designed by architects Edward Lilpop and Józef Pius Dziekoński. It is located in the Evangelical-Augsburg part of the Old Cemetery at Ogrodowa Street 43.
34. Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych, oddz. Radogoszcz, EKSPOZYCJA MUZEALNA
During World War II, the Radogoszcz prison was a German Order Police and Gestapo prison in Łódź, used by the German authorities during the German occupation of Poland in 1939–1945. Today, it is a site of the museum commemorating its wartime victims.
35. Kościół pw. Świętego Antoniego Padewskiego i Świętego Jana Chrzciciela
St. Anthony of Padua Church in Łódź-Łagiewniki - Baroque Franciscan parish church, built in the first half of the 18th century, located in Łódź-Łagiewniki. Since 1946 it belongs - along with the monastery - to the historic buildings of Łódź.
36. Pomnik Początków Miasta Łodzi
The Monument to the Beginnings of the City of Łódź – a monument to Rajmund Rembieliński in Łódź at the intersection of Politechnika Avenue and Rembielińskiego Street in front of the entrance to the Sukcesja Shopping and Entertainment Centre.
37. Synagoga Reicherów
The Synagogue of Reicher in Łódź - a synagogue located in Łódź, in the outbuilding of the tenement house at 1905 Revolution Street No. 28, formerly called South. It is the only pre -war preserved and one of the two active synagogues in Łódź.
38. Kościół pw. Najświętszego Zbawiciela
The Church of the Holy Saviour is a Roman Catholic parish church belonging to the Łódź-Teofilów-Żubardź deanery of the Archdiocese of Łódź. It is located in the Koziny housing estate. It is currently one of three wooden churches in Łódź.
39. Kościół Najświętszego Imienia Jezus
St. John's Church in Łódź – neo-Romanesque built in 1880–1884 as the Lutheran Church of St. John. It was the second church of this denomination in Łódź. Currently, it is a Roman Catholic Jesuit church at 60 Sienkiewicza Street in Łódź.
40. Skwer Gdański
In the area of Łódź there is a large complex of urban greenery. In addition to several forests, squares and many allotment gardens, parks, which are a place of daily rest and recreation, are of particular importance to the residents.
41. Park 3 Maja
3 Maja Park – a historic park in Łódź located in the area of Kopcińskiego and Małachowskiego streets, bounded from the south by railway tracks belonging to the Łódź Regional Railway and from the east by the Baden-Powell Park.
42. Grób Nieznanego Żołnierza
The grave of an unknown soldier in Łódź - a symbolic soldier monument, designed by Stanisław Kazimierz Ostrowski, unveiled on March 22, 1925 as the first such monument in Poland, dedicated to the nameless fallen in battlefields.
43. Osiedle im. Józefa Montwiłła-Mireckiego
The Józef Montwiłł-Mirecki Housing Estate is a housing estate in the western part of Łódź, in the Polesie region, inhabited by 1747 people. The estate is entered in the register of monuments of the National Heritage Register.
Wikipedia: Osiedle im. Józefa Montwiłła-Mireckiego w Łodzi (PL)
44. Kościół św. Józefa
St. Joseph's Church – a Roman Catholic parish church from the second half of the 18th century at 22 Ogrodowa Street in Łódź. The oldest church in Łódź and the only surviving building from the times of agricultural Łódź.
45. Bielnik Kopischa
Kopisch's Bielnik – the oldest preserved factory building in Łódź, located at 5 Bishop Wincenty Tymienieckiego Street; a customary, though incorrect, name for an industrial and residential building owned by Tytus Kopisch.
46. Muzeum Kinematografii
Karol Scheibler's Palace – a neo-Renaissance palace built for Karol Scheibler, located in Łódź at 1 Zwycięstwa Square, next to the huge complex of his factory and the factory workers' housing estate Księży Młyn.
47. Archiwum Państwowe (dawny Ratusz Miejski)
The Town Hall in Łódź – one of the first brick buildings in Łódź, erected in 1827 according to the design of Bonifacy Witkowski. It is the most valuable and oldest monument of classicist architecture in Łódź.
48. Unicorn: A place for stars
Unicorn; And Place for Stars - a sculpture depicting a unicorn, located at the intersection of Aleja March. Józery Piłsudskiego and Piotrkowska Street in Łódź, near the Centrum Tram Railway Station and SDH Central.
49. Park Moniuszki
The Stanisław Moniuszko Park in Łódź is a park located in the following streets: Składowa, Kilińskiego, Narutowicza, Polskiej Organizacja Wojskowa. It was established in 1875 with a total area of 2.3 hectares.
50. Pomnik Matki Polki
Motherhood – a monument standing in front of the Polish Mother's Memorial Health Institute in Łódź. It is also often called the monument of the Polish Mother. It depicts a mother kissing a child in her arms.
51. Ławeczka Tuwima
Julian Tuwim Monument or the Tuwim's Bench is a monument dedicated to Julian Tuwim at the Piotrkowska Street district of Łódź, Poland. The monument was constructed in 1998-1999 by sculptor Wojciech Gryniewicz.
52. Pomnik Czynu Rewolucyjnego w Łodzi
The Monument to the Revolutionary Deed is a monument in the park in Łódź, created by Kazimierz Karpiński, a sculptor from Łódź, on the northern side of Konstantynowska Street, unveiled on 22 June 1975.
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