Trudne dziedzictwo - cmentarze poniemieckie w krajobrazie kulturowym Dolnego Śląska

• Autorzy: Chylińska D.

Warianty tytułu

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Dissonant Heritage - Former German Cemeteries in the Lower Silesia Cultural Landscape

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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Former German cemeteries (civil and military) are one of the components of the Lower Silesia cultural landscape. As a result of territorial changes of Poland after the Second World War, not only a certain geographical area has been attached to Poland, but also many products of the German material culture, including cemeteries. They belong to the so-called 'dissonant heritage'. Despite the fact that many decades have passed since the end of the WW II, various matters connected with them, like uncertain future, their place and functions in contemporary cultural landscape, protection of the premises and ways of conduction, require quick solutions. Spontaneous destruction of German cemeteries in post-war times was directly connected with the WW II trauma which has decided on the negative and hostile perception of any product of German material culture. German cemetery liquidation and so-called 'censorship of graves' were manifestations of a political process called 'Repolonization' of Lower Silesia. The uncertain political situation of Lower Silesia after the end of the WW II, devaluation of death and lack of lasting connections between the space and new local communities were conducive to destructive activities. Confrontation with different cultural traditions and patterns preserved in the landscape brought about a sense of strangeness, lack of concern with the leftover German heritage and the need of "getting used to" this cultural landscape. Nowadays the biggest problems facing German cemeteries in Lower Silesia are vandalism and lack of social and administrative supervision. Destructive activities, which have taken place in German cemeteries, are diverse with regards to the extent of intensity and kinds of results - there is total liquidation, partial liquidation, devastation, partial adaptation and total adaptation. Concern for preservation of the Lower Silesian German civil cemeteries is dictated by a need to protect their values, especially landscape ones, thus it shouldn't arouse any resentment. Cemeteries of foreign nations testify to the former multicultural nature of the region, which had been influencing its physiognomy for centuries and decided on a great diversity and abundance of its material and spiritual heritage. The contemporary functions of former cemeteries, which lost their original burial use, should be in creating new public and individual spaces of penetration intended for recreational and tourist activities. Thus, the protection of German cemeteries in the Lower Silesia cultural landscape may consist of incorporating them into a 'living' cultural environment (through fulfilling a useful social function, not necessarily utilitarian), avoiding their spatial and functional exclusion, featuring mainly their universal aesthetic, symbolic and landscape values.

Słowa kluczowe

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cmentarz poniemiecki; krajobraz kulturowy; Dolny Śląsk

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German cemeteries; cultural landscape; Lower Silesia

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu
• Czasopismo: Architektura Krajobrazu
• Rocznik: 2007
• Tom: nr 1
• Strony: 31--39
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 11 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Chylińska D.

• Zakład Geografi Regionalnej i Turystyki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski

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