MILLS IN THE ROYAL DEMESNE OF MALBORK ON THE BASIS OF INVENTORIES FROM 1755 AND 1765 (Mlyny w Ekonomii Malborskiej wedlug inwentarzy z lat 1755 i 1765)

• Authors: Kizik Edmund
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A relatively precise reconstruction of the system of mills in the area of Malbork can be attempted on the basis of the inventories of the royal demesne of Malbork. The publication of the Malbork demesne records has unfortunately stopped at volume five, which contains the inventory from 1711. Historians are familiar with the unpublished inventories from 1730, 1736 (Central Archives of Historical Records) and 1745 (the State Archive in Gdansk). The available source basis has recently been extended due to the discovery of two previously unknown documents. A particularly valuable one is an inventory of the Malbork demesne mills, written in 1765 in German. It is probably an official translation of an unknown Polish original, which was drawn up in connection with the last inventory of the royal demesne of Malbork before the partitions of Poland, made in 1764/1765. The article explores the significance of the inventories for research on the condition of mills in the period before the partitions. It is also pointed out that the preserved documents of very similar content, a Polish one from 1755 and a German one from 1765, provide researchers with a rare opportunity to compare technical terms used in the two languages in a situation of their mutual influence.

Keywords

EN

INVENTORIES; MALBORK; MILLS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 397-404
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kizik Edmund

• Edmund Kizik, Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego, Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA092833