W artykule przedstawia się w zarysie realizację na obszarze Wieliczki i Krakowa precyzyjnej sieci punktów GPS. Głównym jej zadaniem jest monitorowanie przemieszczeń terenu. W artykule podaje się lokalizację sieci, wyniki opracowania pomiarów sygnałów GPS z lat 1994 i 1996 oraz uzyskaną dokładność wyznaczenia położenia punktów. Osiągnięte wyniki potwierdzają wysoką dokładność, niezawodność i efektywność zastosowanej technologii GPS
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The paper gives an overview of the development of the precise GPS network located in the Wieliczka and Cracow area with the main purpose of monitoring of ground deformations. The localization and obtained accuracy of the network are described. The results of the processing of the GPS measurements carried out in 1994 and 1996 are also presented. The results obtained proved the high accuracy, reliability and effectiveness of the applied GPS technology
W artykule poddano analizie użytkowanie wybranych typów małomiasteczkowej przestrzeni publicznej – rynku, otoczenia muzeów (kopalni), parków, przestrzeni sakralnej, przestrzeni rekreacyjnej. Celem badań było oszacowanie wartości m.in. estetycznej, historycznej, emocjonalnej, rynkowej wyróżnionych przestrzeni oraz identyfikacja konfliktów przestrzennych zachodzących w ich otoczeniu na terenie jednego z bardziej rozpoznawalnych małych miast kraju – Wieliczki. W badaniach potwierdzona została mała wyrazistość badanych przestrzeni publicznych (z wyjątkiem Kopalni „Wieliczka”), które mogłyby nadawać tożsamości miastu i służyć powstawaniu więzi społeczności lokalnej.
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This article analyses the use of selected types of local public space – a market, museum areas (mines), parks, sacred spaces, and recreational spaces. The aim of the study was to estimate the value of aesthetic, historical, emotional, and highlighted market space and to identify spatial conflicts taking place in this environment, in one of Poland’s more well-known small cities – Wieliczka. This research confirms the lack of renown that small public spaces beyond the well-known mine have. Such spaces could give the city identity and serve to establish local community ties.
The article presents the historical context of the shaft top of mineshaft “Górsko” in the “Wieliczka” Salt Mine, the current condition of the building, and planned adaptation of the closed shaft top facility for service purposes. Construction works comprise operations to eliminate the destructive factors, stop the process of decay, restate the full aesthetical value of the elevation, and enable full use of the building.
The Wieliczka Saltworks Castle has been developing since the 13th century in direct vicinity of a shaft hollowed out in search of salt. It is an example of medieval defence construction, closely related to the history of the state mining enterprise, i.e. the Cracow Saltworks in Poland before the partitions. The salt mine, bringing together the salt works and salt mines in Wieliczka and Bochnia under one management, was the largest Polish enterprise and one of the largest in Europe. The castle was the seat of the management until 1945 when its central section was destroyed by bombs. After renovations, it houses the Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka, conducting studies on the salt heritage on the basis of the historical book collection, the salt works archives and valuable cartographic resources of the salt works. The complex of the castle consists of three main structures: the central one, the so-called the House within the Saltworks (end of the 13th – 17th century, 20th century) housing an impressive Gothic hall with a reconstructed vault supported on a central pillar, the northern one – the Saltworks House (built between the 14th and the 15 century with the use of defence wall from the end of the 13th century, rebuilt between the 16th and the 20th century) and the southern one (1834 – 1836, 20th century). The complex also encompasses the reserve of the mining shaft from the middle of the 13th century, secured ruins of the saltworks kitchen, and fragments of defence walls with a tower. The preserved facilities of the Saltworks Castle constitute a unique complex with historical values important for world heritage, which is an interesting example of medieval development, remodelled during Renaissance, Baroque and in the modern times. The untypical character of the castle with economic and administrative functions, as well as representative, and, to a lesser degree, residential functions, provides it with a unique position. The absence of comparable complexes in Poland (with respect to scale and type) and an extended period (of several hundred years) of direct relation to an industrial enterprise distinguishes the Wieliczka facility also among few similar European complexes preserved to this day. The article analyses, in a comparative manner, the individual facilities from the area of Slovakia, Austria and France.
Geschichte der Wieliczkaer Saline is a unique source for every researcher who is learning about the history, geology and mining technique of the Wieliczka salt mine. The authors, professionally connected and obviously fascinated by the Wieliczka mine, created its full picture, taking into consideration all the aspects of everyday life of a salt business. The versatility of the 1842 publication is strongly evidenced by the last part of the monograph − Beschreibung der Werkwürdigkeiten des Wieliczkaer Steinsaltzwerkes als Leitfaden bei der gewühnlichen Gasttour− prepared by Ludwig Emanuel as an appendix presenting the tourist route of that time. The entire work of the Hrdina brothers, which consists of texts, lithographs and maps, brings us closer to the multilayered picture of the history of the Wieliczka salt mine until the first half of the 19th century. The text of this appendix, its lithographs and maps form a specific guide which contains not only a description of the then route, but, above all, guidelines for “strangers” planning to visit the Wieliczka salt mine. This collection could function, independently from the 1842 study, as an individual book dedicated to masses of tourists coming to Wieliczka. This illustrated material allowed visitors not only to consolidate and organise their memories, but it also enabled all those who had never reached the Wieliczka mine to familiarise themselves with the underground picturesque world, with its peculiarity and mysteries. It is therefore not surprising that until 1892, when Awit Szubert took the first black and white photographs of the Wieliczka mine interiors, the drawings prepared by the Hrdina brothers and their detailed description of the tourist route were the most frequently used information and illustrative materials for numerous national and foreign publications about Wieliczka. Before 1892, the management board would answer each query concerning the mine’s interior images with recommendations to use the lithographs by Ludwig Emanuel Hrdina and John of Nepomuk. The authors of the 1842 monograph not only managed to capture the exceptional picture of the Wieliczka salt mine, but they also succeeded in recording a rare phenomenon of the 19th century − an underground tourism. What is more, the uniqueness of the Wieliczka salt mine lies in the fact that it is one of the oldest tourist attractions in Poland, as well as one of the first fully organised tourist destinations. It is important to remember that in the 19th century partitioned Poland, over 100 museums were established. Most of them were founded in the second half of the 19th century, when the Wieliczka mine had already introduced a well-organised and well-functioning system of first fees for visitors. In January 1868 the salt mine authorities announced the first tariff in the history of Wieliczka tourism. They used attractions originally prepared for special, crowned guests. Purchased tickets involved lighting of the underground route and aforementioned additional attractions. It is worth adding that in the second half of the 19th century Austrian salt mine administration established, apart from the underground tourist route, Museum of the Mining School − an educational centre with scientific support and a small exposition of souvenirs in the building of the Rudolf’s shaft top, commemorating personalities visiting the mine. At the very end of the 19th century these meticulously gathered elements were located in the Salt Mine Museum in the so-called Sztygarówka building. Finally, it should be noted that the tourist route, once accepted by the Austrian authorities, to a certain extent has been operating to this day. Naturally, over these 200 years its reach and character have changed significantly. Today’s underground route includes more than 40 chambers. This is twice the number of the route from the first half of the 19th century. Another important aspect is that over the past few years decorations of individual mine workings have changed. This can be most easily seen in the Drozdowice Chamber, where a wooden pillar and cribs were built during the years 1900- 1901. It is worth noting that the then route did not include the most famous underground chapel in the world, the Chapel of St. Kinga. Its first foundations were laid around 1895. Nonetheless, the modern tourist route occupies the same area as the one from the first half of the 19th century, i.e. the mine workings concentrated around the Daniłowicz Shaft. As a result, part of those intended for visitors in the first half of the 19th century is also available for tourists coming to Wieliczka today. These include the Daniłowicz Shaft, the Antonia Shaft, chambers of Urszula, Michałowice, Drozdowice, Józef Piłsudski (formerly the Rosetti/Majer chambers), Pieskowa Skała, Sielec, Spalona and St Anthony’s Chapel. Certainly, their interiors are quite different today. What is important, however, both today and in the Austrian times tourists visited the same part of the mine, which by its hosts was considered the most elegant and representative of the history of the Wieliczka salt mine. For nearly 250 years, since the Austrians introduced the first tourist route, significant and irreversible changes in the mine’s layout and design have taken place. All the descriptions and accounts that have been preserved from the old times give us a picture of the mine workings and the scope of services provided. In this context, the 1842 publication and its illustrations should be regarded as invaluable.
This study is devoted to the broadly-understood technical infrastructure and analysis of development of its individual areas which exerted significant impact on the proper functioning and development of Wieliczka during the times of the Austrian partition. The following issues are discussed in the study: transport infrastructure, both road and train, provision of the city and the mine with water (water supply system from the Lednice ponds of 1803, water supply systems from ponds: na Grabówkach, Syberia, from the Park of Empress Elizabeth, supplying water to the mining shafts and providing potable water from Bieżanów), discharge of sewage, lighting (starting with oil lamps, through kerosene and gas laps and ending with electric lights) and communication, i.e. the beginnings of the telegraph and telephone. Some of these discoveries are still used in Wieliczka, e.g. the potable water pipeline from Bieżanów and the main collector discharging sewage from the city. The saltworks power plant did not stand the test of time. The developing town was forced to get connected to the electric main of the city of Cracow. Transport infrastructure was significantly modernized and improved. Railway was electrified and roads were rebuilt.
The object of the study is the history of the oldest shaft – out of shafts that are still operating – of the Wieliczka Salt Mine. Hollowed out in the centre of the town in the middle of the 14th century, it continued to be the main mining shaft incessantly for approx. 600 years. It was the first shaft to be deepened below level I of the mine (18th century). Here, technical novelties in vertical transport were introduced and the first steam winding machine in Wieliczka was launched in 1861 and later an electric one (1912). The authors present the following issues in detail: construction and deepening of the shaft, modernization of winding machines, the salt mill and the surface infrastructure, changes in nomenclature and revitalization. Available historical sources were used, along with iconographic accounts, mining cartography and technical documentation. The Regis shaft, after completion of renovation work in 2012, started a “new life” contributing to streamlining of tourist traffic in the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
The Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka has a collection of valuable archives; the oldest date back to the 15th century. Their content value is priceless. It is difficult to determine, out of almost 5,000 catalogue numbers, the most precious ones. An interesting set of documents encompasses royal documents, often with well-preserved seals. Undeniably, the entire resource is an invaluable basis of historical knowledge. Collected and studied for a number of years, the archives were the object of numerous publications and scientific papers regarding important issues related to the history of salt mining, primarily in Wieliczka and in Bochnia. Making use of them is facilitated by printed catalogues and inventories. The Museum is also constantly taking care of the archive’s safety and condition, by ensuring proper conditions of storage and conservation. The priority of the Museum is, as far as possible, to extend the resources onto new valuable acquisitions and to take care of the collection, which the Museum already possesses and values a lot.
In the period that is the object of this study, 17 managers succeeded one another in Wieliczka. Until 1867, they managed the Bochnia saltworks and other plants which were temporarily subject to the Saltworks Board, also known under other names, which were frequently changed: the sulphur plant in Swoszowice, the hard coal mines in the Jaworzno district and the state forest inspectorate in the Jaworzno district. After 1867, only the Wieliczka mine was subject to the Board until 1914 (changes of managers, which happened very often between 1915 and 1918, are not possible to register in detail); there were 16 deputy managers, 16 mine surveyors, 10 finance directors, 10 “materials managers”; 3 engineers responsible for buildings and machines and 8 doctors. At that time in Bochnia, 20 managers succeeded one another; until 1867, they were subordinate to the Board operating in Wieliczka. Later, the saltworks in Bochnia was managed, on equal footing with Wieliczka, by the Galician State Management of the Treasury in Lviv and, through its agency, by the Ministry of Finance in Vienna; there were 13 deputy managers, 3 mine surveyors (for the majority of the discussed period, there was a separate mine surveyor, i.e. a surveyor accepting responsibility for the reliability of measurements by his signature, as well as correctness of maps and proper placement of markings in the mine pits); 12 finance directors; 11 “materials managers”; 2 doctors; a separate “machine” engineer worked here for a short time in the years directly preceding WWI. It is impossible to trace by names or even specify the total number of directors of individual “mounts” i.e. mining fields, operating in every field with deputies and assistants in three or two-person teams; the composition of such teams would change very often. Polonization of the personnel of the above-mentioned managing positions began in the middle of the 19th century. It was a result of co-existing processes; on the one hand, in some families who came to the Cracow Saltworks right after the partition, the second and, at the latest, the third generation began to identify with Polishness, adopting Polish as the native language, and the Polish custom as the home custom and, more importantly, the Polish manner of thinking and acting; on the other hand, the gap left behind families who in the past came from various Austrian states and whose descendants decided to return to the family places of their fathers or grandfathers were filled by representatives of Polish landowning families (the first example is the Wieliczka “saltworks physician”, Feliks Gozdawa- Boczkowski), who were permitted to do so on account of the necessity of maintaining employment in the saltworks. The moment when the saltworks clerks started to think and act “in Polish”, feeling that they were the officials of the Austrian state more and more solely in a formal way, falls at the end of the 1880’s and the beginning of the 1890’s. At that time, proposals of new names for underground pits started to contain, almost exclusively, names of older colleagues with whom people submitting the proposals used to work – and if they referred to higher rank clerks, these were predominantly Poles who worked on the level of province authorities (representation, state division, treasury directorate) – therefore, objectively, in the Polish interest. At that time, a place of clearly Polish character started to be built in the Wieliczka salt mine – the Chapel of St. Kinga (from the very beginning, its decoration was devoid of “Austrian” elements, whereas the pulpit, executed in 1903, presents the symbol of the holiest Polish national symbol: the Wawel Castle). In 1906, the 1st Convention of Polish Miners was held in Cracow, partially co-organized by the Wieliczka Saltworks Board; it was combined with a visit at the Wieliczka mine and a meeting for industry specialists from the Polish lands under all three partitions. After 1910 and before 1914, the Wieliczka saltworks clerks started to issue publications in the magazines in Warsaw and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie. True engineers/ humanists were in this group. Among them, the person of Feliks Piestrak, author of historical studies devoted to the maps of the Wieliczka mine prepared by M. German, W. Hondius and J.G. Borlach and philological translation of the Latin poem of A. Schröter of 1548 (describing the author’s impressions and remarks made during a visit to the Wieliczka Salt Mine) is particularly important. The group of clerks who, by way of promotion, worked in Wieliczka, Bochnia and in the saltworks of Eastern Małopolska, i.e. the historical Russian Saltworks, includes two professors from the first group teaching at the Cracovian Mining Academy, which started to operate in the Independent Poland in 1919. The merit of these people, and quite a significant one, was leading the saltworks away from the reign of Austria to independent Poland. In Western Małopolska, it was possible to perform it peacefully; in Eastern Małopolska, it also happened without greater losses and maintaining continuity of people and institutions, in the conditions of civil war provoked by Austria almost in the last days and hours of the partition.
The conservation of two, late Baroque, semi-circularly closed images of nearly identical size, located in the Reformed Franciscan monastery of St. Anthony in Przemyśl, which were thought to present the Communion of Saint Francis and the Veneration of the Cross by Saint Francis, brought about interesting outcomes. It turned out that the images were previously interpreted mistakenly, as they actually present the Communion of Saint Bonaventure and the vision of Saint Francis in Vicalvi (Vision of an angel with an ampoule), typical of the Franciscan post- Trent iconography. The pattern for the image Communion of Saint Bonaventure in the Przemyśl monastery was an engraved reproduction of a painting by A. van Dyck, which was to be created by Pieter Bailliu, an engraver from Antwerp (Balliu; around 1613- after 1660). The creation referred to the Last Communion of Saint Francis by Rubens. According to Carl Justi, the main idea of the presentation was a feeling of humility and a particular dignity of Saint Bonaventure towards the Blessed Sacrament. As a young monk, he attended a mass, but felt too unworthy to receive Holy Communion every day. During the mass, an angel appeared who, after taking a particle of a Host from the hands of a priest celebrating the mass, put it into Bonaventura’s mouth, so that “he knew that it was better to receive the Eucharist with love than to refrain from it for fear”. That pattern was common in Reformed Franciscan churches. The Communion of Saint Bonaventure was created to decorate the sacristy of the church in Pińczów (signature A. N. W. and the date 1717) and as a modello stored in the monastery in Kraków for an uncreated altar picture or sacristy decoration. That scene is also presented in the sacristy of the former Bernardine (now Dominican) church in Św. Anna near Przyrów. The second picture, Vision of an angel with an ampoule, was a reproduction of an engravery by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called Guercino, presenting the vision of Saint Francis of Vicalvi, referred to as Vision of priestly dignity. The composition, popularized by, among others, the engraveries by Giovanni Battista Pasqualini (1630), was a pattern for painted decorations in the sacristies of Reformed churches in Pińczów, Wieliczka, Kęty and Biecz. According to Raffaell Colace in the article San Francesco e l’angelo con l’ampolla, the image of the saint by Guercino can be interpreted in two ways. On the one hand, in the context of underlining the humility of the saint who considered himself unworthy of being a priest and, on the other hand – the “spotlessness” of priesthood, the value particularly emphasized by the Catholic doctrine after the Council of Trent. The discussed pictures are a typical element of equipment of the sacristies of Reformed churches in the former Lesser Poland province. They were probably connected with the function of that place, in which the liturgical celebration was prepared. It can be presumed that, in the past, the pictures could have been the equipment of the sacristy of the Przemyśl church. It seems to be confirmed by the archival files kept at Reformed Franciscan Province Archives from the 19th century, reporting “great images over the mensa in the sacristy”. The images, created by a local guild artist or an artist from the Order do not manifest significant artistic values. However, they are interesting from the point of view of iconographic values, as a reproduction – through graphic patterns – of renowned works of Guercino and van Dyck, who are among the greatest European painters. Presenting both legendary events from the life of the patriarch of the Order and the main theorist of Franciscan thought was supposed to emphasize the new, post-Trent form of devotion – veneration of Eucharistic Christ and an exceptional dignity of celebrating the Holy Mass. Perhaps the humble attitude of the monks had a moralizing significance in a form of an example for the priesthood in the Reformed Franciscan order. Thus, the presentations are of high historical and cultural importance for the research on the history of the order.
Past years have been marked by a dynamic development of sports infrastructure in the area of the city and municipality of Wieliczka. Currently, two excellently equipped sports facilities operate in Wieliczka: “Solne Miasto” Educational and Recreational Centre, commissioned in 2011 and the Małopolska Athletics Arena, located on the so-called “Psia Górka” (a mining pit from which sand was transported to fill voids in the Wieliczka Salt Mine); in the inter-war period, the venue was used as a place for shooting competitions and in the 1970s as an off-road motorcycle course. Both facilities allow for organising competitions in various sports disciplines. The city’s sports offer is supplemented by two “Orlik” sports complexes (football pitches where it is possible to play football, handball, volleyball and basketball, with gym equipment and back-up facilities in the form of a sanitary building and cloakroom), located in Mickiewicz Park and in the Krzyszkowice Housing Estate. It is also necessary to mention sports facilities of other Wieliczka sports clubs and school football pitches and gyms, where various sports and recreational activities can be conducted. It is very interesting to compare the present-day picture with the beginnings of sports life which started to develop in Wieliczka in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Antoni Rink, the teacher of Wieliczka Departmental School, promoted the necessity of keeping proper physical condition among his pupils between 1886 and 1887 in “Przewodnik Gimastyczny Sokół.” Later, in 1892, the Polish Gymnastic Association “Sokół” established its unit in the city and for several decades to come it was the most important sports institution in Wieliczka. In the inter-war period, two effectively operating sports club joined “Sokół”, i.e. the Cyclists and Motorists Club in Wieliczka (1924), promoting cycling and motorcycling, and “Wieliczanka” Railway Sports Club (1927), which promoted broadly understood sports activity (the leading discipline in the club was football). Young people from Wieliczka’s schools and university students who were members of the Academic Youth Circle were also active in the area of sports. In the 1920s, “Ari” Jewish Sports Association was also established, which brought together Jewish youth in Wieliczka. Among several sports disciplines practiced in the Wieliczka sports clubs, football was the most popular; meetings of “Sokół” Sports Club and “Wieliczanka” football teams were the most important events of sports and social character in the city. In 1931, thanks to the efforts of Wieliczka authorities and members of all sports organisations, a municipal stadium was commissioned and its management was entrusted to “Wieliczanka.” The activity of Wieliczka’s residents in the area of sports was halted by the outbreak of WWII. Operation of all associations and social organisations, including sports clubs, was banned. It was only after the end of military activities that the sports life in the city started to flourish once again. “Wieliczanka” and “Sokół” resumed their operation almost immediately after the war. The former was less lucky, as the communist authorities declined its official registration and liquidated its soon afterwards. In 1947, another important Wieliczka sports club was established by the Salt Mine: “Górnik” Wieliczka (“Miner”) Sports Club. In 1970, the activity of “Wieliczanka” was suspended (until the end of the 1980s), which resulted in the fact that “Górnik” came to be the leading club in the city for several years. The competitors practicing in individual club sections were successful in local, domestic and international competitions. The most outstanding footballer who played for “Górnik” and earlier also for “Wieliczanka” was Adam Musiał, later a player of Cracow’s “Wisła”, as well as other foreign clubs, representative of the country and silver medal winner during the World Cup in 1974. In the 20th and the 21st century, tennis players were also successful, along with the team of women’s basketball players and boxers from the boxing section. Artur Szpilka has been the most famous boxer in the recent years. In the 1980s, there was a significant growth of sport activities among children and youth attending Wieliczka schools. A special role was played by the Inter-School Sports Centre established in Wieliczka in 1980 (MOS Wieliczka) and the Inter-School Sports Club operating next to it (MKS MOS Wieliczka). Facilities conducting sports classes for children and youth are equally important: UKS Regis Wieliczka, “Gimnazjon” Pupils’ Sports Club at Primary School with Integration Divisions No. 4 in Wieliczka or the Deacon’s Sports Club “Kinga.” Combat sports have enjoyed great popularity in Wieliczka for a number of years; it is possible to practice them in several specialist clubs and schools operating in the city. In 1993, Choy Lee Fut started to operate in the city (since 2000 under the name “Kung Fu Lung” Combat Sports School) managed by Tomasz Chabowski, multiple champion of Poland and Europe, champion of the world and coach of the Polish Wushu team (2010 – 2013). In the 1990s, Jarosław Hebda started to teach karate in Wieliczka in Oyama Karate; at the present moment, he is the manager of OYAMA Wieliczka Sports Club. Since 2009, second karate centre has been operating in the city – Kiokushinkai Wieliczka Karate Club, established and managed by Robert Kopciowski. Wieliczka is also the hotbed for chess talents. Outstanding post-war chess-players came from Wieliczka: Bogdan Śliwa (1922-2003) and Anna Jurczyńska (1926-2009). A worthy continuator of Wieliczka chess playing is MOS Wieliczka – its pupils were very successful in the country and abroad. Junior Grand Master Jan Krzysztof Duda, multiple champion of the world, Europe and Poland in chess, has greatest accomplishments in this noble discipline of sports. After 1945, cycling and motorcycling traditions were also revived. In the 1950s, a cycling section operated in “Górnik.” Participants of various competitions raced along the streets of the city, e.g. amateur cycling rallies “Rowerem po wiosnę” and “Rowerem po złoty liść,” “Kolarska majówka” or the prestigious professional Tour de Pologne race. The most accomplished road cyclist from Wieliczka is Tomasz Marczyński, winner of many domestic and international trophies and a member of elite professional European clubs. Motorcycle and car races are also popular. In 1975, upon the initiative of the Wieliczka teacher, Edward Kozioł, an off-road motorcycle race was organised under the name “Father and Son.” Best motorcycle riders and their offspring raced on “Psia Górka.” In the recent years, motorcycle riding in the area has been promoted by Tomasz Hajduk, the Champion of Poland (Seniors) between 2005 and 2013 in Motorcycle Trials and Piotr Serek, an award-winning sportsman in classic motorcycle racing. For a number of years, Wieliczka roads have been used as an arena for car races. In 1990s, an amateur rally event known as “Kręciołki Wielickie” (the drivers were competing for the Marian Bublewicz Trophy) was organised; since 2007, Automobilklub Krakowski, Wieliczka city and municipality, Wieliczka poviat and Association of Car Sports Lovers in Wieliczka have been organising the “Janusz Kulig and Marian Bublewicz Memorial Rally” which attracts throngs of fans from all over Poland. One of the best race drivers from Wieliczka is Mateusz Lisowski, a champion in domestic and foreign competitions, e.g. Škoda Octavia Cup (2009), Scirocco R-Cup (2011), Volkswagen Castrol Cup (2013). In car races, a team made of Rafał and Grzegorz Ślęczka represents the city and the municipality of Wieliczka and Solne Miasto Sp. z o.o.; the duo has won the first place in Class 9 in the Polish Rally Championship in 2012. For a number of years, running has also enjoyed significant popularity in Wieliczka. Traditional amateur cross-country running took place in Mickiewicz Park. Since the 1980s, running in the city has been provided with a more organised form. On 20 October 1984, the 1st Mieczysław Cieślik Athletic Memorial was organised, attended by over 400 participants – pupils from primary schools, middle schools and teachers. In 2000, the 1st “Solidarność” Wieliczka Race took place and, a year later, the “Race for St. Kinga’s Ring” was organised for the first time (the event is held annually during the city celebration days that take place in June each year). To celebrate the 85th anniversary of Polish independence, the 1st Wieliczka Independence Race was organised in the city (in 2015, its 13th edition was organised). In 2014, the 1st Half Marathon Wieliczka took place; its second edition a year later was prepared under a slightly different name: 4F Half Marathon Wieliczka.
Malgré d'anciennes traditions ainsi que certaines acquisitions dans ce secteur, l’état de la protection des monuments techniques en Pologne est encore insuffisant. En raison de l'enregistrement inachevé nous ne possédons pas d’informations complètes quant aux monuments techniques qui se sont conservés dans notre pays. Plusieurs monuments de grande valeur attendent un traitement de protection et de conservation. Nous manquons également d’une quantité suffisante de publications popularisant les monuments de la technique ancienne. Il est toutefois à espérer que l ’on pourvoira aux besoins susdits durant les plus proches années car l’intérêt porté aux monuments techniques va toujours croissant de même que la compréhension de leur signification pour la science, la technique et la culture contemporaines. Telles conceptions se développent! tout particulièrement dans les milieux techniques et économiques et l ’on peut s ’attendre de leur part à una( collaboration en ce qui concerne les travaux de con servation. La protection des monuments de la technique s heurtera bien entendu à plus d’une difficulté xésul tant de la spécifique de ces monuments (vu leu grande diversité et la grande exposition à l ’usure issue de ce qu’ils soient affectés à des fonctions productives ou au secteur des services) que des convictions enracinées et persistant encore dans certains milieux que la machine usée, l ’outil ou le bâtiment ancien des ateliers d’usines dans lesquels la production ne peut plus être continuée ne présentent plus aucune valeur. La surmontation de ces difficultés et l’accomplissement des tâches découlant du besoin d’une sauvegarde et d’une protection dans des mesures appropriées des monuments de la technique révolue nécessitent une intensification des traitements de conservation et de l’enregistrement. Il s ’agit là, en premier lieu d’attirer une plus grande attention des services· d ’État de conservation sur les monuments de la technique, et même d’augmenter les effectifs consacrés spécialement à ces travaux. Il importe également d’entourer les monuments techniques d’une protection sociale tout en élargissant cette dernière par la convocation de protecteurs individuels et collectifs (institutions et établissements industriels) pour les monuments particuliers. Les musées techniques qui s ’occupent des souvenirs mobiliers de la technique ancienne, tels que les instruments de travail, les machines et les installations mécaniques exigent également une extension de leur réseau. La proclamation en 1965 de l ’Année des Musées et des Monuments de la Technique est d’un bon augure pour l’action engagée car cela permettra de concentrer l ’attention sur l ’état actuel de ces musées et monuments ainsi que sur les perspectives de leur protection.
The Wieliczka Saltworks Castle had been developing since 13th century in direct vicinity of a shaft excavated in search for salt. It is an example of medieval defensive architecture directly connected with the history of the state mining enterprise constituted by Cracow Saltworks in pre-partition Poland. Salt mines, with the salt works and mines in Wieliczka and Bochnia under one management, were the biggest Polish enterprise and one of the biggest in Europe. The Castle remained the office of the management until 1945, when its central part was destroyed by bombs. After renovation, the Castle houses the Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka, which conducts studies on salt heritage on the basis of historical book collection, salt works archives, and a valuable salt works cartographic resource. The castle complex comprises three main buildings: the central one, the so-called House Among Salt Mine (13th-17th, 20th century), housing a magnificent Gothic room with reconstructed vault leaned on the middle pillar; north one, Salt Mine House (erected in 14th-15th century, using the rampart from the end of 13th century, rebuilt in 16th-20th century), and south one (1834-36, 20th century). The layout includes also a reserve of mining shaft from the mid-13th century, secured ruins of salt mine kitchen, fragments of ramparts with a tower. Remained facilities of the Saltworks Castle constitute a unique unit, whose historical values are important as global heritage, since they are an interesting example of medieval architecture, changed in the Renaissance, baroque, and more recent times. Atypical character of the castle whose functions were mainly economic and administrative, and also representative, and to a lesser extent residential, makes it an extraordinary piece of architecture. There are no such layouts in Poland, and the long, a few-hundred-year period of direct relationship with an industrial enterprise distinguishes the Wieliczka facility also when compared to the parse, similar and remained European centres. The article conducts a comparative analysis of in particular buildings in Slovakia, Austria, and France.
The history of mining methods to rescue the most valuable undergrounds goes back tens of years. These experiments implemented by a team of specialists from the AGH University of Science and Technology resulted in saving many historic mines, drifts, cellars, caves. They now serve as interesting archaeological sites, underground tourist routes, museums, spas. The adverse effects of time, natural hazards and long – term exploitation of underground workings require to take technical actions in order to re – establish the original technical and functional values of the objects. The presented scope of the revitalization activities allowed to save for future generations many underground monuments that are the testimony of cultural, industrial and civilization heritage.
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