In 1853, the Assana Mill, the first steam mill in Romania, was built in the Obor-Lizeanu district of Bucharest.

An unprecedented invention that initially frightened the inhabitants of Bucharest, who saw the new technology as a scary village.

It soon became a place where bakers gathered to grind grain and the first mill powered by a heat engine.

The equipment with which the mill was equipped was brought from Vienna, and their transportation alone took more than a month.

When the communists came to power, they nationalized the mill and arrested Vasyl Assan, who was the sole shareholder. Due to the fact that he opposed the decision of the state, Vasyl was thrown from the fifth floor of the capital’s police headquarters. then the communists announced that he “committed suicide.”

After 1990, the mill was vandalized and abandoned, and is now in a deep state of decay.

Read on B365.ro the new history of the Assan factory from the time of communism to the present day.