Zabytki drewnianej architektury sakralnej w Polsce - zasoby i zagrożenia

• Autorzy: Szałygin J.

Warianty tytułu

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Monuments of wooden sacral architecture in Poland - resources and threats

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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Wooden sacral architecture comprises an important element of the European architectural legacy. It is composed of churches built from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, the majority being Roman Catholic, although many localities feature churches of other creeds and religions: Eastern rite, Protestant, Uniate, Old Catholic, Mariavite (a national church of sorts characteristic only for Polish terrains), as well as synagogues and mosques. Several extremely interesting post-Mennonite wooden churches, associated with Dutch settlements, have survived. The archives of the State Service for the Protection of Historical Monuments contain more than 2000 inventory cards on titular architecture, but they do not take into consideration all the objects and the level of their edition remains differentiated. Today, there are 2785 examples of wooden sacral architecture in Poland. The inventories do not encompass all the monuments and, worse still, a large part of the buildings is succumbing to irreversible damage from year to year. By way of example, during the last decade of the twentieth century more than fifty churches were destroyed in fires, including the Eastern rite church in Grabarka, and churches in Tarnów (sixteenth century), Witkowo (seventeenth century), Tylice (1702), Rożnowice (eighteenth century) and others. The fires are caused increasingly frequently not by faulty electric installations, as was the case in the past, but by intentional arson. The arson of historical churches is frequently committed to obliterate traces of another crime burglary combined with theft. Only a few of the churches are well-protected against fire and burglary, and none of the wooden edifices is fully safeguarded against assorted threats. The reason for this state of things is much more profound, and stems from the extremely low awareness of Polish society concerning the value of wooden sacral architecture and thus the necessity of its protection.

Słowa kluczowe

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architektura drewniana; architektura sakralna

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wooden architecture; sacral architecture

• Wydawca: Komitet Architektury i Urbanistyki PAN ; Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Architektury
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: T. 47, z. 1
• Strony: 46--51
• Opis fizyczny: fot.

Twórcy

autor

Szałygin J.