Family history and traditions
GO STOLLE is a company owned by a family with an entrepreneurial history dating back to the 18th century - its name comes from the Czech Stolle family.
The first family business was established over 100 years ago, when Juliusz Stolle and his associate Wilhelm Krajewski bought an old steelworks in today's Belarus.
The plant developed perfectly thanks to the favorable environmental conditions, local traditions, but most of all thanks to the abilities and diligence of the owners themselves.
More buildings were built quickly, and thus the world-famous company Huty Szklane J. Stolle Niemen SA was established
The glassworks offered its customers beautiful glass and crystal products, including wine glasses, vases, decanters, lamps, and even pharmacy glass and many other various products. Stolle stores were known, among others in the USA, France, England, Canada and Africa.
In 1935, the company was entrusted with a very special, honorable order, i.e. the production of an urn in which Józef Piłsudski's heart rests in Vilnius today.
As a result of the Soviets, the steelworks was nationalized in 1939, some of the family were arrested and sent to prisons and labor camps. The owner's grandfather, Lech Stolle, fought in the Home Army, for which he was sent to a camp in Siberia.
During the heyday of Huta Niemen, the entire local community developed, the Stolle family built, among others, library, school, hospital, cafe, and also bought vitamins and distributed them to children, and the inhabitants of Brzozówka remember it to this day.
The owner of the GO STOLLE company, Olga Raczyńska is the great-great-granddaughter of the founder of the steelworks, Juliusz Stolle.
After the Stolle family, she inherited the ability to do business and in 2015 she founded the Go Stolle transport company, which refers to family business traditions not only by name, but also by professed values, which, despite the passage of time, have not changed, and these are: diligence, honesty, courage, enthusiasm and empathy.
Like her ancestors, Olga remembers the need to share with others, financially supports many people, various types of events or initiatives, e.g. sports and school.
She is a very energetic person with many interests, e.g. her passion for old cars gave rise to the idea of setting up a transport company, she also drives a truck all over Europe.
She loves nature, her great passion is hunting and cooking simple dishes according to old recipes.
Juliusz Stolle's great-great-granddaughter makes sure that this beautiful story, the memory of the Stolle family, survives and is still alive.
Olga is planning, inter alia, making a documentary and historical film that would show the everyday life of Stolle, steel workers and local residents.