A place with history

In 1929, on the initiative of Count Stanisław Kostka Rostworowski and his wife Maria Ludwika, owners of the Wilga estate, a housing estate was created under the name "Wilga nad Wisłą Housing Estate Climate and Leisure". The first plan of the estate was made by the famous Italian architect Andrzej Boni, and the second plan was made by the architect Tadeusz Nowakowski. In August 1930, plots of land on the estate were purchased, among others, by Association of intellectual workers "Cooperation". They were railway workers from Warsaw. Recreational houses and a large brick building were built for the employees on the plot. About 80 people resided permanently on the premises of the center. At that time, "vacationers" had 4.5 km to the parish church, so in 1937 a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help was erected and consecrated on its own land. During the occupation, a German forest guard post operated in the building of the "Cooperation" center. Then, after the arrival of the Soviet troops in the summer of 1944, the area of ​​the estate became the front line. In the building of the center, the Russians created a field hospital, which functioned until January 1945. After the war, in 1956, a holiday center of the National Association of Transport and Automotive Co-operatives was established in the building of the former "Cooperative". In 1983, the then owner of the center, the Central Union of Work Cooperatives, donated the renovated chapel and parish plot in Wilga. The chapel has received a new call: Blessed Rafał Kalinowski. After the political transformation of the country, many centers collapsed. The center was bought by Bank Inicjatyw Gospodarczych and started operating under the name of Training and Leisure Center "Wilga - Laswoda" Sp. z o.o. In 2005, the center was purchased by the shareholders of the company that took over the name "Las Woda" Sp. z o.o. The modernization and reconstruction of buildings has started, adapting them to the Recreation and Business Park "Las Woda".