The central part of New Vilnius is near the railway of the station and the former cinema, according to the Vilnius general plan, is an important local center of Vilnius. The name of the town, like Vilnius, was given by the rapid Vilnia, 100 years ago it was cunningly called Vileika, in Polish - Vilenka. Mietel was born in 1824. After Balcers Reinart dammed it and built the Kuchkuriski water mill and paper factory (his buildings remain), and especially after the construction of the Warsaw-Petersburg railway began. in 1858 After cutting down the forests, workshops, sawmills, factories appeared, the town was baptized in Russian as Novovilejvsk. in 1878 in the growing industrial town, the industrialists Wyszwanski and Szereszewski, who came from Berlin, founded the "Russian-German Company of Patent Nails". 90 workers worked in it, 34 furnaces were burning, and 47 machines were working. in 1882 the company was bought by a German merchant, the richest man in Lübeck at the time, Emil Possehl, and greatly expanded. The factory had its own 0,10 varst railway branch (which is still in use today), 60 specialists from Styria (Austria) were invited and the production of scythes of modern technology was started. in 1886 1 million of them have already been produced. The raw material was also supplied by his own steel foundries in Sweden. 1900 these scythes were exhibited at the Paris World Fair.
in 1905 the factory already employed 450 workers, and before the First World War it produced up to 3 million units. of the famous Litovka (Litovka - the scythe was called in Russia), extremely high-quality scythes of modern technology made of Swedish steel per year. It was the largest factory of horseshoe nails and scythes not only in Vilnius county, but also in the world. Until 1885 The managers of the huge company were forced to go to Vilnius to pick up the mail correspondence, so the scythe factory in 1885-1890. decided to maintain a small postal service at their own expense. The post office in the settlement appeared in 1890. Possehl later acquired two similar metal processing plants in Petersburg. Eventually, a railway workshop, a metal foundry, two paper factories, a large sawmill, a sewing factory, yeast and leather factories appeared in the town. The factory operated until the Second World War. in 1948 it was reorganized into the Vilnius dyeing apparatus factory, which in 1966 renamed the Vilnius Construction Finishing Machine Factory, many new extensions appeared, even the Vilnius riverbed shifted to the south. Locals called the factory simply "pokraske" because its main production was painting machines. UAB "Statybos vidas mašinos" is still operating, but most of the territory is used by other companies. An impressive surviving red brick water tower, built in the time of E. Possehl - in 1892.
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