HOUSING CONSTRUCTION FOR WORKERS AT THE KEDZIERZYN CHEMICAL COMBINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Housing Construction for Workers
at the Kedzierzyn Chemical Combine
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1. At pre^ont some: 500 families (approx. 2,000 inhabitants) are living in the workers'
housing; sottJ.cmont in Kedzierzyn. Most of the men are specialists from East Ger-
many, Czechoslovakia, USSR and Austria, who are employed in the construction and
assembly of now machinery in the Kedzierzyn Chemical Combine.
2. The workers' settlement' which is still under construction, is located in the wood
north of the chemical combine. Living quarters for 50,000 inhabitants are to be
ready by 1956. The following are observations made on the completed buildings:
a. The buildings are somewhat primitive; the outer walls are constructed of two
bric]zs and the inner walls of only one brick (approximately six centimeters
wide) placed upwards.
b. The wood work is of poor quality being mostly of fresh wood which expands and
cracks.
c. The 4)athroonri are at present only shower rooms; bathtubs will be built in at
a later, stage.
3. Four typos of structures are being erected:
a. Four-family house with two floors. On the ground floor there are two 3-room
flats with kitchen and bathroom. In the attic (Dachstuhl) there are two 2-room
flats, with kitchen and bath. Some 60 such houses have been completed and are
inhabited.
be Eight-family house with three floors. The ground and first floor each have three
3-room flats, with kitchens and baths. The attic has two 3-room flats with
kitohonr and baths. Approximately 30 of these buildings have been completed
and are inhabited.
o. Fourteen-family house with four floors, with three and two room flats; kitchens
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and baths. Four of these structures are under construction and nearing com-
pletion.
d. Six-family house with two floors (number of rooms not known
Eight of these houses have already been completed and are i a' s .
In addition, the following buildings have been erected in the settlement%
2 workers' hotels (two floor building)
2 schools (single-floor)
1 kindergarten (single-floor)
1 Post Office
A hotel (four floors), which is also to serve as cinema and "House of Culture",
is still under construction.
a. Approximately 8,000 workers are employed in two shifts at the chemical 6mbine
in Kedzierzyn. (This figure does not include building workers and S.P. (Service
for Poland) members mentioned below--1,000 men).
b. The contractors are the Opole Industrial Builders' Association (Opolskie Prze-
myslowe Zjednoczenie Budowlanee
c. The S.P. brigades are quartered in barracks outside the combine.
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