Drainage grate “Stryjeński & SKA”

A drainage grate allows rain and melt water from streets and pavements to be collected at one point and then fed into the underground storm sewerage system. The presence of sewerage is inseparably connected to the operation of a water supply network. The beginnings of the modern water supply network in Kraków go back to 1901, and that network has been developed and modernised over the ensuing years to become the water supply network we have today. The comfort and quality of life of Kraków’s citizens was far worse before the network was built. Potable water could only be drawn from wells or rivers, and impurities and all liquid waste was discharged directly to open gutters that ran along the city’s streets. The object presented here was made in one of Kraków’s cast-iron foundries on a commission by the construction company run by Tadeusz Stryjeński. Manufacturer: Stryjeński & SKA, about 1910 Inv. No.: MIM1455/IV-74 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA