Karol Scheibler's Chapel stands in the Old Cemetery as one of Lodz's clearest monuments to its textile-boom wealth. Built for the Scheibler family, it translates factory-era money into pointed arches, carved stone, and a level of funerary ambition more often associated with cathedrals than cemetery plots.
The chapel is worth seeking out if you are tracing industrial Lodz beyond Piotrkowska Street. Its setting among Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox cemetery sections also says something about the mixed communities that built the city, and about how quickly private fortunes became public landmarks.