The Fly Trap is one of those mysteries where there are a lot of highly imaginative claims obscuring what could be a real puzzle. While I believe that the Fly Trap was a normal cooling tower, the location is a bit odd and this is compounded by the proximity to a new headframe building the Nazis had built. There was little real evidence except for what is still there in the ruins of buildings around it so I decided to investigate. Some old maps and postcards help to define when things were built. Other puzzles have to be solved by looking at many maps. The evidence is disappearing, but I think I might have found some. Hopefully this video will help encourage others to check for the last remaining shreds of what once happened there... before they too disappear forever. The new headframe or "pit head" building of Shaft "Walter" is the key to the puzzle, once you understand what that arrow in the German map pointed to...
The first thing to check is the exact direction those two conduits run in and if they once connected the Fly Trap and the mysteriously newer Shaft "Walter".
I wish to thank Leszek Zdrach for his kind permission to use his photos and many others, whose websites I'll include on this list for further study so you can view the photos in higher resolution. By the way, the music is "The Terror Below" from blogphilo.com/royalty free - my first experiment with adding a royalty free score. At least the title sounded appropriate. Please let me know what you think and if there are other options.
Mucholapka to jedna z tych tajemnic, gdzie znajduje się wiele bardzo pomysłowych roszczeń zaciemnia to, co może być prawdziwym puzzle. To bardzo skomplikowany z mało realne dowody ... poza tym, co wciąż jest w ruinach budynków wokół niego. Niektóre stare mapy i pocztówki pomóc określić, kiedy rzeczy zostały stworzone. Inne kostki muszą być rozwiązane, patrząc na wielu mapach. Dowody zanika. Mam nadzieję, że ten film pomoże zachęcić niektórych do sprawdzenia przez ostatnie strzępy pozostały, co kiedyś tam się stało ... przed zbyt znikną na zawsze.
Pierwszą rzeczą jest sprawdzenie dokładnego kierunku tych dwóch przewodów używany, i jeśli po połączeniu w Mucholapka i nowszych Shaft "Walter".
Pragnę podziękować Leszek Zdrach za uprzejmą zgodę na wykorzystanie jego zdjęcia i wielu innych, których strony internetowe będę to na tej liście do dalszych badań tak youcan przeglądać zdjęcia w wyższej rozdzielczości. (And heck I hope this translation is half way correct)...
Links:
www.zdrach.za.pl for many great photos of buildings and a great explanation of the technical aspects of older cooling towers (in Polish. Use Google translate! It works fine) One neat curiosity he told me was that the Mucholapka in Lodz is right next to the Fairy Tale Museum. I thought that was very appropriate for some of the tales about the Mucholapka.
www.riese.cba/pl for great photos from inside many tunnels.
www.pinger.pl for more great photos.
www.ecsploracja.org.pl for now already historic photos of many buildings.
www.warsawvoice.pl (English version) for lots of information on the history of the area.
http://fotopolska.au/Ludwikowice_Klod... for historic postcards, photos and maps.
www.sztolnie.fora.pl for more mine specific historic maps and many photos.
www.jugow.info for maps, photos information and local history.
Several YouTube videos (as per my favourites list) for a good overview of the area, impressions of what it is like to explore the tunnels and one or two stills from video of ruins and conduit tunnels for which there are no other sources of photos on the internet. Thanks to YouTube channel "trilup" in particular for the use of those screen shots.
Please let me know if you'd like your site to be included on this list. I hope I haven't missed anyone (it's been a very long edit phase...) and I really tried to include every new source on the video frames they appeared on. There were lots of sources...
