Krengolm - City of Baron von Knopp

We will walk along the Krenholm district of Narva. No entrance to the Krenholm Manufactory! Excursion route: The railway station, the building of the former New York Hotel, the Krengolm prison and police station, the monument to V. Gerasimov, the “new village” and the market, the Krengolm maternity hospital and hospital, the houses of the directors of Carr and Shawcross, the water tower with a clock, a view of the dry bed of the Narva River and Krengolm Island, the houses of the directors of the weaving and spinning industry, the building of the Yoal factory. Krenholm manufactory, founded in 1857, became the largest weaving manufactory in the world by the beginning of the XX century, it employed 10 thousand people. In 1900, the products of the Krenholm Manufactory won the Grand Prix of the World Exhibition of Industrial Goods, which was held in Paris. The manufactory owned its own schools, hospitals, churches, cemeteries, bakeries, and so on. It was a city in a city! This is where we will walk, my dear friends.