On July 12, 1925, the shelter was ceremonially dedicated and opened by the President of the Republic of Poland, Stanisław Wojciechowski, in the presence of, among others, the Speaker of the Senate, Wojciech Trąmpczyński, and General Mariusz Zaruski.
PTTK "Murowaniec" shelter, photo: Wikipedia
The "Murowaniec" shelter was built in the years 1921-1925 mainly thanks to the efforts of Stanisław Osiecki, president of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Tatra Society and deputy speaker of the Sejm (commemorative plaque from 1969). The first sketches of the building "made of large boulders not processed on the outside" were drawn in the spring of 1914 by architect Jan Witkiewicz Koszczyc. The final project was authored by Zdzisław Kalinowski and Karol Siciński.
The shelter was built by the Polish Army. The following Polish Army units were involved in the construction of the shelter:
· a detached platoon of the high-mountain company of the 3rd Podhale Rifle Regiment,
· a detached company of the 5th Engineer Regiment from Kraków, which built a road from Brzeziny to Hala Gąsienicowa, 1200 m long and 2.5 m wide,
· a detached platoon of the 1st Railway Engineer Regiment from Kraków, which built a mountain railway to Hala Gąsienicowa, which delivered stone and sand for the construction of the shelter,
· a detached platoon of the 1st Podhale Rifle Regiment from Nowy Sącz, which built the shelter.
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