I’ve been seeing these from trains. And actually I’ve seen similar, but shittier ones in Latvia and Lithuania sometimes too. Are they just small affordable houses with little gardens? Some of them look like only one or two rooms . Do a lot of people still live here in these? Looks kind of idyllic from a communist perspective with all their little gardens modest accommodation and tight community lm guessing
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_(gardening)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_(gardening))
ROD
These are urban allotment gardens, and those small houses are garden sheds/arbors — you’re not even allowed to live in them. It looks like a post-communist idea because it *is* a communist idea — a leftover from the PRL (People’s Republic of Poland) era. It looks rough because a lot of them are still held by elderly people who don’t really care, or people don’t invest much because things get stolen.
These are ROD allotment gardens in Poland. ROD stands for Rodzinne Ogródki Działkowe, which means something like family allotment gardens. They are not really normal housing estates or tiny-house neighbourhoods. Some people do stay there the entire year but it is frowned upon as that’s not their intended use. Each person or family usually has a small leased garden plot with a small hut, shed, or cabin on it. They’d use it for growing vegetables, grilling, chilling etc.
Polish Rodos
These are called ogródki działkowe they are not regular homes but vacation ones
Imagine you live in a flat and you don’t have a garden and you can’t afford a regular standing house with one you buy a plot like this that is cheaper and you can basically do the same things there
These are Allotments.
“Houses” are small sheds and guest rooms and people grow vegetables and fruit on the plot and go there to spend time like for BBQ and such.
You can also within limits keep pigeons and chickens there or bees in a group project kind of way.
They are *Ogród Rodzinny*, gardens assigned by the municipality where Poles typically build small houses, but definitely not intended for residential use.
They’re called działki, they’re little plots of land that usually have little houses. People don’t live in them, they just use them as a garden or a place to chill and do a barbecue.
Ι saw a similar one from the satellite in Gliwice and I was like wtf is that
Theyre Działki, you dont live there, its usally like how to say for vacationing, visiting. Some people grow gardens there. Some people rly just use it to like grill all day there and keep stuff on it
Others explained well. What I will add is not so fun fact. When communists could not keep population adequately fed (who would have thought) and food expenses were almost 50% of all expenses, communists to “better life” of citizens promoted allotments a lot to have ppl make of crops and relay less on shops as source of food
The world is so small, i go past this place (almost) every day
Opole spoted
So like others said it is forbidden to live there long term. However some do. The neighborhoods are meant to be a small escaping place from the city life, most people who have those visit once a week or every two weeks.
They’re leprechauns settlements after they decided to leave Ireland due to high cost of living.
While walking around Wroclaw me and the gf walked through one of these allotment estates and they are pretty cool, you can understand why they exist near a big city.
It was a bit weird to see though as allotments in the uk are just used for old dots to grow vegetables.
They are also in Netherlands and Germany, I don’t know does any other countries have it but I guess they exist in many other countries also
Nobody lives there, as it is forbidden by law. They are not livable spaces, they are community gardens / allotments
**GOOGLE WHAT AN ALLOTMENT IS**
It’s a place where grandparents go when it’s hot to grow vegetables and chill or their grandkids go to have parties close to nature.
Dwarfs dwellings
Those are citytizens’ gardens. People who live in apartment flats without greenery can rent one of those plots and use it for recreation and farming. You can build a shed or small house there, but you can’t live there. There is only cold water and electricity, so no toilets (there are shared public bathrooms usually). You are not the owner of the land buy you can rent it for cheap long term.
In the old times, factories and government were building flats for people and building new cities. People from villages were moving in, and they would get those community gardens. Back then, there were no supermarkets, so usually to eat fresh veggies and fruits, you had to grow them yourself.
My grandparents have one of those, and they love it. For 50 years, they were growing all of their veggies and fruits and made a lot of preserves. They also made family gatherings, garden partes, and bon fires, and we would go there in the summer to play.
It was like a mini vacation home but without sleeping (you go back to your home for the night and come back to the garden in the morning).
It’s a really cool idea but needs a lot of free time and labor to flurish. Unfortunately, owners get old, and young people don’t usually have as much free time nowadays. Also, prices for rent skyrocketed during covid.
These are RODOS, LoL, like Rodos Island. **Rodzinne Ogródki Działkowe Ogrodzone Siatką** (family allotment gardens fenced with mesh)
where’s the photo from?
those are houses for tiny ppl
Allotments!
At least in Latvia they are remnants of the Soviet occupation – depending on your workplace you could get some land where you could build a summer house and plant different fruits and vegetables for situations when you couldn’t buy them. Actually, on the countryside you could live in an apartment block and have a garden somewhere nearby alongside other gardens!
As a fun fact I’ll tell you that some of those were built where they because of soil. Especially on the right side of Warsaw. Soil next to Vistula is too unstable to build reasonable housing blocks so they decided to designate those areas to ROD.
The confusion when Americans see allotment gardens in Europe:
Gardening Shed Ultra Deluxe™, so you can chill there, or nap, or have a short vacation in summer.
Dzialka is the name for this little piece of ground .