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Alpy w twórczości Hedwig Couhrts-Mahler

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Kolbuszewska E.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2016

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tom 10

97-108

EN

Known as the “queen of kitsch”, Hedwig Courths-Mahler [HCM] (1867–1950) wrote 208 novels for women, for whom she provided an escape from the stifling reality into the world of ideal dreams and feelings. The novels were set in the late 19th and early 20th century, with the spatial settings serving only as abackground for the events presented and usually not playing any major role in the plot. Novels that do stand out in this respect are those set in the Alps. Other types of space did not play arole as important as that of the mountains. In some respects the formula of HCM’s novels featuring mountain motifs reflected the poetics of Bergroman or mountain novel, a popular thematic variety of 20th-century novel. In line with the conventions characteristic of Bergroman, the mountains in HCM’s novels were not just abackground and scene for the action. To avarying degree they also determined the protagonists’ fate. Dramatic events like avalanches, storms, slides, falls into precipices, physical injuries, unpredictable disasters would crystallise their moral attitudes. Often the mountains would also provide abackdrop for their passionate romances.

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„Góra szczęścia” Jonasa Biliũnasa

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Syrnicka K.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2016

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tom 10

71-80

EN

The oeuvre of Jonas Biliūnas (1879–1907) marks the birth of Lithuanian lyrical psychological prose, which was influenced by the modernist ideas of relativism. His works brought into the Lithuanian canon of realist story the motifs of transitoriness of human existence, fragility of life, sadness. Biliūnas was the first Lithuanian writer who was professionally prepared for his trade. He studied literature and related disciplines at universities in Switzerland, which gradually became a centre of Lithuanian intelligentsia already in the 19th century. The short stories written at that time indicated the writer’s maturing talent. The Alps played asignificant role in Biliūnas’ life; this is where in 1904–1907 he wrote his best works, three of which are thematically associated with the mountains: the literary sketch Fine Weather on the Uetliberg (Ant Uetlibergo giedra!), the short story Snowstorm in the Mountains (Pūga kalnuose) and the allegorical tale The Beacon of Happiness (Laimės žiburys) — one of the most important works written in Zurich. A serious illness prevented the writer from fully developing his talent. On 8 December 1907 he died at the age of 28 in his wife’s arms in asanatorium in Zakopane. He was buried in Pęksowy Brzysk. Thanks to the efforts of the Lithuanian writer Antanas Vienuolis Biliūnas’ remains were brought back to Lithuania, where he was laid to rest on ahill in Liudiškiai, near Anykščiai. In 1958 a monument called “Beacon of happiness” was erected on Biliūnas’ grave. The hill with the monument became asymbol the meaning of which is expressed in the tale The Beacon of Happiness. Today some people climb the hill to honour the writer’s memory, while others — believing in its sacred nature — hope that it will bring them happiness.

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Lichenometry and Schmidt hammer tests in the Kaunertal glacier foreland (Ötztal Alps) during the AMADEE-15 Mars Mission Simulation

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Czempiński J. , Dąbski M.

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development

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2017

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tom 21

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nr 4

190-196

EN

The aim of this article is to show the results of the lichenometrical and Schmidt hammer measurements performed in 2015 during theAMADEE-15 Mars Mission Simulation in the Ötztal Alps in order to test the capabilities of analogue astronauts and collect information on the geomorphic history of the study area since the Little Ice Age (LIA). The results obtained differ significantly from our expectations, which we attribute to differences in the ifeld experience of participants and the astronauts' technical limitations in terms of mobility. However, the experiments proved that these methods are within the range of the astronauts' capabilities. Environmental factors, such as i) varied petrography, ii) varied number of thalli in test polygons, and iii) differences in topoclimatic conditions between the LIA moraine and the glacier front, further inhibited simple interpretation. The LIA maximum of the Kaunertal glacier occurred in AD 1850, and relative stabilization of the frontal part of the rock glacier occurred in AD 1711.

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Testing the suitability of dim sedimentary quartz from northern Switzerland for OSL burial dose estimation

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Trauerstein M. , Lowick S. E. , Preusser F. , Veit H.

Geochronometria

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2017

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tom Vol. 44, no. 1

66--76

EN

We investigate the suitability of sedimentary quartz associated with former glacial advances in northern Switzerland to provide reliable burial dose estimates using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). Previous studies on northern alpine quartz show that its signal characteristics can be poor and potentially problematic. We analyse quartz signals of small aliquots, which reveal the presence of a prominent medium or slow component in the initial part of some signals. Nonetheless, rejection of aliquots with unfavourable signal composition does not alter the burial dose estimates, but significantly reduces the data set for De determination. Signal lifetimes from isothermal decay measurements cover a wide range of values, yet the lowest lifetimes are high enough to guarantee a reliable burial dose estimate for samples of < 400 ka. Comparison of small aliquot and single grain burial dose distributions reveals that signal averaging masks partial bleaching in some of the samples. We therefore strongly recommend single grain measurements for samples from this setting and area, in order to exclude age overestimation due to partial bleaching.

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Reddish multiphase infillings in the megalodontid bivalves and solution voids in Julian Alps – NW Slovenia

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Slapnik L. , Rožič B. , Gale L. , Rožič P. Ž. , Waśkowska A.

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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tom nr 1-2 (72-73)

64--64

EN

At a nature-preserve protected site in the Julian Alps (NW Slovenia), in the Pod Peski valley, red fillings of megalodontid bivalves occur within the Upper Triassic Dachstein limestone. Based on optical and cathodoluminescent microscopy and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis, four generations of shell fillings were recognized, some of which contain both cement and sediment subgenerations. Logging and sampling of the limestone sequence a few meters below and above the “main” layer containing the megalodontids mentioned above revealed that the limestone is characterized by solution voids similar to the megalodontids. Namely, these voids are also filled with reddish multigeneration sediment with alternating calcite cement. Adjacent neptunian dykes were studied to clarify their influence on the last generation fillings. Two of them, located directly on the “main” layer with red-filled megalodontids, contain planktonic foraminifera, indicating Middle Jurassic or younger age. The next two neptunian dykes are located directly above the “main” layer, and one contains clasts with calpionellids characteristic of the Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous. The last dyke explored is located a few tens of meters from the “main” layer and is several hundred meters long. In a few sample from this dyke Early Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera were identified. Microscopic analysis revealed that the reddish sedimentary fillings are part of a complex palaeokarst system that produced the first three generations of fillings, and in the last (fourth) generation we noted similarities between the megalodontid fillings and neptunian dykes on the “main” bedding plane. In addition, a Santonian–Maastrichtian sedimentary fill with globotruncanid foraminifers were discovered in the upper part of the succession in one of the solution voids.

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Volcanism and sedimentation in the Paleogene Alpine peripheral basins: how did Alps look like?

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Di Capua A.

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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tom nr 1-2 (72-73)

18--18

EN

All the Paleogene represents a key period in the growth of the Alpine belt and the development of surrounding sedimentary basins. Nevertheless, one of the most intriguing timelapse is represented by 10 Ma, between ca. 40 and ca. 30 Ma, when the growing belt hosted volcanic complexes that lead to the accumulation of volcanogenic sequences within the Northern Alpine and the Southern Alpine foreland basins. Such sequences present peculiar characteristics that varies depending on the period and depocenter where they where accumulated. In addition, they represent the fundamental clue to reconstruct how the volcanic arc developed, which kind of volcanic activity characterized it, where the volcanoes were located and to speculate about how magmatism was produced before coming to the surface. Volcanic sequences are, in fact, extremely rare and confined to the west of the chain, disarticulated from the source-to-sink systems that supplied detritus to the depocenters, together with dikes crosscutting the southern part of the belt, so less is the geodynamic information gain from them. The present talk will review a decade of investigation carried out on stratigraphic, petrographic and geochemical data on the different volcanogenic sequences, trying to reconstruct the relationship between putative volcanic centers and the basins, as well as to understand the nature of the Paleocene volcanic arc/arcs. All the considered sequences are characterized by large amounts of volcanogenic detritus, and sometimes they rarely preserve pyroclastic deposits. Occasionally, such sequences are also mixed with non-volcanic detritus, a component useful in tracing provenance of sediments and giving clues about palaeoenvironments constituting the growing belt. Although beyond of being exhaustive, the present communication represents a first attempt in marking fundamental temporal and palaeogeographic steps in the evolution of a volcanic arc through several millions of years on one of the most fascinating orogenic belt.

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The margins of the Early Jurassic Trento Platform (Southern Alps)

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Riva A. , Gianolla P. , Caggiati M.

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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tom nr 1-2 (72-73)

59--59

EN

Examples of Lower Jurassic carbonate platform margins are rare, probably due to the scarcity of good outcrops. One of the major palaeogeographic units of the Mesozoic Tethys, the Trento Platform, however, shows two different margin types facing the Belluno and the Lombardian basins. While the western margin, facing the Lombardian Basin, is showing an ooidal unit with frequent mud mounds (Massone Oolite), the eastern margin was poorly characterized, mainly due to difficult stratigraphic definition and problematic accessibility of outcrops. The eastern platform margin characteristics are strictly controlled by tectonic activity and the type of carbonate factory; the differences between the eastern and the western margin could be linked to windward-leeward position of the platform margin, more protected to the west than to the east. Subsidence increased since Late Triassic, due to the opening of the Alpine Tethys, defining shallow water areas, dominated by subtidal and peritidal muddy carbonates, and deeper basins, such as the Belluno and Lombardian Basin. More than 500 m of mud-dominated carbonates developed until Early Sinemurian, when major switch in the carbonate factory occurred. The Hettangian-Early Sinemurian margin is usually not well exposed and is strongly dolomitized and appears to be a tectonically controlled escarpments. Since Late Early Sinemurian, the carbonate factory changed and led to a huge production of peloids and ooids, promptly shed in the surrounding basin: in the Eastern Trento Platform we recognize a 400/500 m thick wedge of Sinemurian to Pliensbachian ooidal calcarenites pinching-out towards the basin, with scattered bioconstructions made of calcareous sponges across the margin. This wedge pinches out also towards the platform interior, showing that the ooids were poorly preserved on the platform top. The preserved slope shows an angle of about 20-25°. In the western margin, the resedimented ooids are more limited, probably due to the limited size of the marginal carbonate factory. In the Late Pliensbachian, probably in the Margaritatus zone, a drowning phase affected part of the eastern carbonate platform, switching to encrinitic calcarenites, while in the western one carbonate production continued until Bajocian. These encrinites are extremely thin on the platform top, but a resedimented wedge in the proximal basin highlights the position of the topographic margin. The margins of the Trento Platform is a rare example of Early Jurassic carbonate platform margin that can be used as a reference for coeval carbonate platform depositional systems.

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Aptian greenhouse climate and icehouse interludes – alpine Tethyan archives revisited

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Weissert H.

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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tom nr 1-2 (72-73)

78--78

EN

In this study we revisit two Cretaceous archives in the Alps, and we test hypotheses of major sea level falls related to ice age interludes in the Aptian. The first of the two successions in focus was formed along the northern margin of the alpine Tethys and is today preserved as Garschella Formation in the Helvetic nappes of Switzerland. Aptian phosphorites of the Luitere Beds containing Deshayites deshayesi and Dufreonia are overlain by up to tens of meters of siliciclastic shales, the Gams Beds. Gams Beds with low carbonate content are poorly dated, according to available biostratigraphies they are of Late Aptian age (nolani ammonite zone). Gams Beds are covered by up to 15 m glauconitic bioclastic sandstones and limestones (Brisi sandstone and limestone). The second locality we have revisited is Zürs in the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA, Vorarlberg, Austria). There, a condensed succession of Jurassic-Cretaceous age records Southern Tethyan ocean history of a “submarine bank”. Jurassic radiolarian cherts are overlain by pelagic limestones of earliest Cretaceous age followed by an Aptian phosphorite hardground. These phosphorites are covered by an up to several meter thick succession of reworked crinoidal limestones and then by several tens of meters of “Kreideschiefer” (Lech Formation), which are of Albian to Cenomanian in age. Phosphorites at both localities record a time of hardground formation related to changes in Tethyan oceanography, triggered by a major perturbation of the global carbon cycle and by corresponding changes in climate and oceanography. Condensed sedimentation records intense current activity on submarine highs and along the northern Tethyan shelf. Remarkable is the poorly understood change in sedimentation following hardground formation at both locations during Late Aptian time. The Helvetic Gams Beds (Garschella Fm.) record increased shedding of siliciclastics along the northern Tethys, either related to increased weathering or to a drop in sea level. We propose, that an eustatic drop of seal level explains observed northern Tethyan shifts in Late Aptian sedimentation. A corresponding drop in sea level is recorded at other localities as the Oman Mountains, along the Algarve coast in Portugal or in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin. There, most prominent “cold snaps” or “ice age interludes during Aptian greenhouse climate” are dated as martinoides to nolani ammonite zone, they coincide with the deposition of the Gams Beds. Bioclastic limestones in the Helvetic succession and in the NCA record carbonate shedding at a time of renewed sea level rise following a major Aptian sea level drop. The Late Aptian prograding carbonate system of the NCA, considered as the source of crinoidal sands, was positioned along the northern margin of the evolving Eastern Alps while Brisi carbonate sands where shedded from a Northern Tethyan carbonate ramp. The Aptian condensed sediments of Helvetics and of NCA are indicators of extreme shifts in Aptian climate triggered by perturbations of the global carbon cycle. The Aptian-Albian Zürs succession provides additional information on the rapid transition of a passive continental margin with pelagic sediments into an Austroalpine foreland basin represented by “Kreideschiefer”.

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Zwischen den Welten. Zur Präsenz des alpinen Mythos von den Saligen bei Paula Grogger

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Mańczyk-Krygiel M. , Mańczyk-Krygiel M.

Orbis Linguarum

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2018

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nr 50

401-414

EN

Among worlds. Alpine mountain nymphs called Salige in the works of Paula Grogger The subject of this article concerns the images of alpine nymphs popular in Alpine mythology and called Salige in selected works by the Austrian writer Paula Grogger (1892–1984): in the legend Das salige Kind (1929) and in the novel Das Grimmingtor (1926). In alpine stories these nymphs are the guardians of mountain nature and the embodiment of the pre-Christian Great Goddess. In the works discussed here, the real world permeates with the metaphysical world: the first presents the attempt of the peaceful coexistence of the nymph and the people, and the second emphasizes its role as a guide into the underworld. The analysis was inspired by the theory of landscape mythology, which combines historical and archaeological facts, with a description of the folklore of the area, stories and solemnities, local names and lay of the land in order to obtain the most comprehensive analysis of cultural texts.

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Najdłuższy na świecie tunel pod Alpami wydrążony

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Sumara A.

Geoinżynieria : drogi, mosty, tunele

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2010

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tom nr 5

22-25

EN

In the 2017 there will be opened the longest railway tunnel beneath the Alps. There are planned two tubes - each 57 km long. The breakthrough at the Gotthard Base Tunnel in the Eastern tunnel took place on October 15, 2010. This link will connect northern and southern Europe by rail through the Alps in the territory of Switzerland. After finishing the construction the first high-speed trains will travel along at speeds of 200 to 250 km per hour.

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Czarodziejska góra Tomasza Manna jako przestrzeń transgresji

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Nowicka D.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2017

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tom 11

143-164

EN

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is analysed with regard to elements pointing to the transgressive nature of the mountain and its impact on the protagonists of the novel. The author of the article focuses on the impact of time spent in the sanatorium on the mountain on the patients’ perception of the world below, on the plains, taking into account both external and mental changes. The selected fragments refer primarily to the transformations of the main protagonist, i.e. Hans Castorp, but also those of other protagonists, for example Dr Behrens or patients in whom changes of moral character can be observed. Life “up there” prompts people to see the world “down there” differently and thus figures as a place of internal transformation and crossing of boundaries, which should not be seen only topographically in this case.

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Alpy w twórczości Zygmunta Krasińskiego

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Toruń W.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2018

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tom 12

177-190

EN

When it comes to the scope of its topics and level of detail, the sketch “The Alps in the oeuvre of Zygmunt Krasiński” is a preliminary reconnaissance. Krasiński’s image of the Alps was influenced by his “educational” trip to Switzerland on which he went with his guardians in the autumn of 1829. The primeval and monumental nature of the Alpine landscape left an indelible mark on the psyche of the young Romantic poet. This can be seen in Krasiński’s letters to his father as well as discursive writings of the future author of Non-Divine Comedy. Of crucial importance in the exploration of the Alps by young Krasiński were his Alpine trips: first in the company of his tutor and English friend Henry Reeve and then in the company of Adam Mickiewicz and Edward Odyniec.

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Miejsce i rola krzyża we współczesnej przestrzeni sakralnej małych kaplic alpejskich w kontekście twórczości Tadao Ando

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Cichosz J. , Cieślak-Arkuszewska A.

Builder

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2023

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tom R.27, nr 12

22--26

PL

We współczesnych, ascetycznych kaplicach alpejskich symbolika krzyża ulega pogłębieniu i powiązaniu z mistycyzmem natury. Taka postawa jest również charakterystyczna dla twórczości Tadao Ando. Celem pracy jest analiza porównawcza rozwiązań przestrzennych stosowanych przez Ando i twórców alpejskich w zakresie formy i lokalizacji krzyża w obiektach sakralnych oraz poszukiwanie analogii wykraczających poza kontekst kulturowy. Badania pozwoliły wyodrębnić trzy podstawowe obszary operowania znakiem krzyża i semantyczne przesunięcie znaczeń w kierunku metafizyki i duchowości indywidualnej.

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In modern, ascetic Alpine chapels, the symbolism of the cross has been deepened and is linked to the mysticism of nature. This attitude also characterizes Tadao Ando's work. The aim of the work is a comparative analysis of the spatial solutions used by Ando and Alpine artists regarding the form and location of the cross in sacred buildings and the search for analogies that go beyond the cultural context. The research allowed us to identify three basic areas of using the sign of the cross and a semantic shift of meanings towards metaphysics and individual spirituality.

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„Was soll der Mensch da oben?“. Vom politischen Nutzen des Bergerlebnisses

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Wedekind M.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2018

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tom 12

55-68

EN

Since the 1870s the socio-economic and national conflicts with ethnic backgrounds reached the highest Alpine peaks. This was visible in a broad European context, but especially in the Habsburg Monarchy. This was where demands for political participation and social emancipation of (allegedly) disadvantaged ethnic groups in the Reich were juxtaposed with aggressive German-Austrian strategies seeking to preserve the status quo. In this context, “capturing” and “seizing” highland areas in disputed language border regions of the multi-ethnic empire became terms of huge symbolic and identity-shaping significance. In comparison with the British Alpine Club, whose members were well travelled climbers, Central European Alpine associations were anchored in regional political contexts and had clear nationalistic views. They reflected the specific socio-psychological determinants, moral values and social norms of the bourgeois elites, from among whom the leaders and members of these associations came almost exclusively as late as in the early 20th century. In its early hybrid form — vacillating between sport and science — mountaineering turned out in many respects to be a useful tool of cultural takeover and emotional awareness-raising with regard to one’s own homeland presumed to be threatened by a foreign element; it was useful as a driving force in internalising national identity, social values, political concepts as well as heroic military maxims referring to desirable behaviour. The first ascents of mountain peaks and “capturing” of hitherto untouched highland areas, construction of prestigious hotels and mountain hostels as well as nationally-inspired monuments on mountain peaks became semiotic expressions of territorial aspirations of a nation, a symbolic seizure of the mountains, preventing “ethnically foreign” profanations. Thus emerged a new, collectively binding mental map with sanctified mountain peaks and ranges that were incorporated into the nation’s iconography. The politicisation of mountains and mountain climbing became part of the “nationalisation of the masses.” The author of the article examines these aspects, using the multi-ethnic region of Tyrol as an example. He analyses, first of all, the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini, an organisation operating in the southern, Italian-speaking part of the country, and its equivalent, the much larger German and Austrian Alpine Club. The analysis features, among others, various ideas of “nature”, “mountains” and climbing, varied goals mountaineers set for themselves, and, finally, the link between socio-economic conflicts with ethnic backgrounds and peaks in the Dolomites and the Ortler. These were conflicts which, in some sense, paved the way for the subsequent fighting during the First World War or, in any case, directly led to it.

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The geodynamics of the area between Alps, Bohemian Massif and a western part of Polish platform

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Vyskočil P. , Śledziński J.

Reports on Geodesy

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2004

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tom nr 2/69

179--188

EN

The area of western border of the CEI member countries is created by different geological structures as a part of Easter Alps, Carpathians, Pannonian Basin, Bohemian Massif and eastern area of Polish platform. This area includes northern slopes of the Alps, their foredeep and contact with the Bohemian Massif, West Carpathians foredeep towards Bohemian Massif and a part of Polish platform, crossing area of Sudeten fault zone and T-T zone. The entire territory is covered by map of annual velocities of vertical movements as well as by network of GPS stations. In present paper the geodynamical properties of mentioned above territory are analysed and shortly discussed both in vertical and horizontal component. It should be added that the vertical movements are derived from repeated levelling performed before and after the World War II and 1995. The horizontal component is derived from satellite (GPS) measurements after 1994 (see Fig. 1).

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Von Grenzen und Abgründen: Berg- und Abgrenzungsdiskurse in ethnischen Konflikträumen

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Wedekind M.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2017

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tom 11

221-247

EN

The author examines the reasons behind the political instrumentalisation and ethnicisation of tourism as a private social practice, allegedly far removed from politics. Using the example of the Austrian Alpine Region (specifically, the Duchy of Tyrol) during the late Habsburg Monarchy, he demonstrates that this political sphere of action was a promising starting point for the nationalisation of the masses of the masses, especially wherever national circles of various communities had no access to the state apparatus and to classic socialisation organs and, therefore, had to resort to auxiliary measures to socialise nationality. In addition to issuing calls to visit areas close to linguistic and national borders and projecting ethnic (partly racial) models of segmentation and exclusion, tourism was used as ground for the building of national identity, for strategies of social integration and mobilisation, for establishing new mental maps and links of loyalty.

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„Góry te kryją w sobie niejakiś postrach, z ozdobą złączenie...” Obraz Alp w świetle relacji podróżniczej Teofi li Konstancji z Radziwiłłów Morawskiej

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Król K.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2015

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tom 9

117 - 135

EN

In 1773–1774 Teofila Konstancja Morawska née Radziwiłł (1738–1807) travelled across Europe, also visiting the Alps. The princess recorded her impressions in her diary, which enables us to examine her attitude to newly discovered spaces. The diary fragments dealing with her stay in the Alps describe her impressions and emotions that accompanied her during the journey. It turns out that mountain landscapes aroused not only fear in her but also awe and admiration. Konstancja Morawska was very interested in every element of Alpine landscape; she contemplated wild nature, was excited by mountain cascades and streams, noted the state of the roads, ways of travelling and changing atmospheric conditions, recorded information about history and sightseeing, was in raptures over the noble, mysterious and dangerous beauty of the mountains, and noted down her observations concerning plants or even types of rocks. The Alps provided the princess with both profound experiences and interesting specimens for her natural history cabinet. The accounts of mountain treks show Morawska not only as an intelligent, sensitive and observant lady, but also as a courageous and active traveller seeking new experiences. Significantly, Teofila Konstancja was able to appreciate the beauty of nature and look at it from an emotional and aesthetic perspective as it is evidenced, for example, by the literary images from her diary, very interesting in many respects.

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Baltazar (Belsazar) Hacquet (1739–1815), francuski podróżnik, przyrodnik, geolog, profesor uniwersytetów we Lwowie i w Krakowie : nowe dane biograficzne w świetle niepublikowanych dokumentów z archiwów francuskich i niemieckich

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Daszkiewicz P. , Tarkowski R.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2014

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tom Vol. 62, nr 7

340--343

EN

Balthasar Hacquet, French physician and naturalist, Austrian army officer and inspector of mines in this country, has marked the history of natural science. Also as Professor of the Universities in Lviv and Cracow, he distinguished himself in many disciplines (botany, geology, anthropology and medicine), and particularly in the descriptions of the nature of the Carpathians and the Alps. This important person in the République des savants does not have the place in the contemporary historiography of science. His correspondence with French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse, as well as his autobiography and numerous documents, preserved in various archives, help to better understand his role in the development of natural sciences.

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Alpejskie konstrukcje - kładki na najwyższym pułapie świata

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Hawryszków P. , Halicki M.

Mosty

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2016

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tom nr 6

82--84

PL

W artykule przedstawiono dwie niedawno wybudowane konstrukcje kładek dla pieszych w Alpach Szwajcarskich - Titlis Cliff Walk oraz Peak Walk. Obie kładki zostały zaprojektowane jako wiszące, a wybudowano je przy użyciu niekonwencjonalnych rozwiązań (transport materiałów budowlanych kolejkami linowymi, jak również helikopterem). Konstrukcje stanowią nowe atrakcje turystyczne Alp, a ich budowa była wyzwaniem inżynierskim.

EN

Two pedestrian bridges recently built in the Swiss Alps have been presented in the paper - Titlis Cliff Walk and Peak Walk. They were designed as suspension footbridges and built using atypical solutions - transport of building materials by cable cars or a helicopter. Both structures are new touristic attractions in the Alps and their construction was an engineering challenge.

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O granicach i przepaściach: dyskurs o górach i separacji na terenach objętych konfliktem etnicznym

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Wedekind M.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2017

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tom 11

248-265

EN

The author examines the reasons behind the political instrumentalisation and ethnicisation of tourism as a private social practice, allegedly far removed from politics. Using the example of the Austrian Alpine Region (specifically, the Duchy of Tyrol) during the late Habsburg Monarchy, he demonstrates that this political sphere of action was a promising starting point for the nationalisation of the masses of the masses, especially wherever national circles of various communities had no access to the state apparatus and to classic socialisation organs and, therefore, had to resort to auxiliary measures to socialise nationality. In addition to issuing calls to visit areas close to linguistic and national borders and projecting ethnic (partly racial) models of segmentation and exclusion, tourism was used as ground for the building of national identity, for strategies of social integration and mobilisation, for establishing new mental maps and links of loyalty.