Przepisy przeciwpożarowe we wczesnonowożytnym Grudziądzu

• Authors: Modrzyński Paweł Mateusz

Title variants

DE

Feuerschutzvorschriften in frühneuzeitlichen Graudenz

EN

Fire regulations in early-modern Grudziadz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the Middle Ages and early modern period the Prussian towns were developing their local Kulm law. Apart from the court law, the towns tried to regulate also the issues related to fire protection. At that time, urban centres struggled with frequent fires. Among the factors conducive to the spread of fire there were the“tight” urban building and the popularity of wooden urban fabric. It is the town willkur and the articles of the Weta Office of 1642 are the only sources which allow us to reconstruct the contemporary fire regulations of the early modern Grudziądz. In these articles the attention was paid to the issues that existed in urban legislation at that time. Among many regulations, there were provisions regarding the assistance to fire victims. The issues related to storing flammable materials – particularly wood, straw and hay – in the town were also regulated. In accordance with the fire regulations, the townspeople were obliged to help in extinguishing fires and have appropriate fire-fighting equipment. Among others, there were articles about suburban pastures, which were probably modelled on regulations functioning in Toruń at that time. The fire regulations were an indispensable and permanent element of the development of the towns of the period, including Grudziądz. They are the evidence of the developing and modifying urban planning and the mentality of the townspeople.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 43-50

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Modrzyński Paweł Mateusz

• Uniwersytet Mikołaj Kopernika w Toruniu

Identifiers

ISSN

0080-3464