The past of the historic plant dates back to 1907, when the first commercial heat and power plant was put into operation in Łódź to provide electricity for the city and factories. Karol Scheibler junior, whose father had developed in Łódź the biggest industrial empire in Europe, decided to make his own factories independent from external energy supplies. Thus, in 1910, according to the design of Alfred Frisch, the power plant of K.W. Scheibler Cotton Products Association was built. The designer left the neo-Renaissance and neo-Baroque style of the factory buildings in Łódź, focusing on modernity and the then-current styles: Art Nouveau and Modernism.

The building consists of two parts (on the image engine room to the right and boiler room to the left) as well as a small tower adjacent to them from the north. The building’s structure is reinforced concrete – it is one of the first buildings in Łódź built in this way.

Outside it has been already renovated, but inside it's still abandoned, in its original state. The power plant operated from 1910 to 2003.

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