Dys
We chose to walk from the western end right through to the main Lublin-Lubartow highway at the eastern end. The start is marked by a small shop, but on a hill on the other side is the well known Dwor Anna, which is a hotel and restaurant these days. It is quite expensive to stay there, but it is a beautiful location and very popular for wedding parties - but only if you can afford it.
There are
a series of farms and an increasing number of homes for people who can
afford to build their own houses outside of the city.
This is part
of a small farm, one of many to be found in Dys.
This is a
flour mill, what they like to call an 'electric mill' here. It is still
in use and probably sells its product only within the region. There are
still many of these small mills still functioning, although quite a few
have gone bank rupt since 1989.
Unlike most
of the village, the church is located out of the valley, so it is a long
climb for most parisioners.
This is one
of the side altars, and as you can see it is in the Baroque style that
is so popular in this part of Poland. We were lucky as the morning we chose
to visit was cleaning day, so the local ladies let us in.
The pews are
quite remarkable as they are so large, roomy and having individual seats.
This is a
20th ceiling painting in the church.
This 'dworek'
is located just opposite the church, and is probably the priests house.
This wooden
cottage is also close to the church, and it looks like it hastwo families
living in it.
Also near
the church is this building. From this side it looks like it is one storey
with a basement, but from the other it is quite obviously a two storey
house. part of it is the office of the local lawyer.
Further along
the valley there are more houses and a lake, probably once used to breed
fish. This brick built house probably dates from the end of the 19th or
the early 20th century, and was once quite a nice house judging by the
entrance pillars but nowadays it appears to have been divided into flats.
A very traditional
wooden cottage in a good state of repair.
There are
a couple of these water wheels towards the eastern end of the village,
this one works while the other has long broken down. On the far side of
the paddle wheel, between the paddles, are a series of metal boxes that
fill with water and then empty into that piece of guttering. The water
then flows into someone's garden pool and a little further downstream the
excess drains back into the river.
Below is a satelite image of the village and its surroundings. The dark
line which wanders across from left to right is the Ciemięga (Ciemiega)
river - or at least the trees that overhang it. Generally the black areas
are trees, the grey lines are roads, and those masses of strips are the
fields. You can see how long and thin most of the fields are, they were
created this way to reduce the number of times you had to turn your horse
and plough around. Over the years the fields have become narrower and narrower
as property is generally divided among all the children.
(C) CNES/SPOT Image 1992-1994
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