Ochrona nazw historycznych w obrębie prawnej ochrony zabytków

• Authors: Dobosz Piotr

Title variants

EN

THE PROTECTION OF HISTORIC NAMES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF LEGAL MONUMENTS PROTECTION

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The present article discusses the need to expand a scope of a legal institution of „monument” and to include into it names of some goods and immovable objects (physiographic objects) which are important to the Polish or world culture or which should remain unchanged for essential historic or social reasons. According to the present law only the object that has legally defined attributes may be recognized as a monument. Meanwhile, there exist legal and factual premises that speak for the introduction of proposed amendments. And just as the most frequently changed names are names of streets and squares, the first example to illustrate this is associated with this problem. The name of St Thomas’ street in Cracow’s historic architectonic centre, which has been included by UNESCO’s Committee for World Heritage into the list of most valuable monuments of world culture, has been altered into L. Solski street. All streets in its proximity have preserved their names. The presented method of exposing the name of an outstanding actor has resulted in unjustified improverishment of our cultural heritage, though it was possible to give his name to some new street, school or any structure. An inevitable urban development has brought about changes in the appearance of Polish localities and their naming. A disappearance of historic names should not only be covered by law protection but they should also be exposed in the changing environment of the man. An example of an inappropriate change has been the giving a representative hotel being now built in Cracow the name of „Kongresowy” , and just recently „Forum", although the criteria of broadly conceived historic character speak in fa vour of the name „Ludwinow” . This is the name of town's district where this modern hotel is being erected. At the expense of transformations made, former Ludwinow lost its specific appearance and character. Another reason for the need to introduce proposed changes has been based on opinions of historians, of Polish and Slavic philologists, who, on many occasions, have demonstrated a rich variety of our names, including the so- called patronimic, possessive and personal name. Further part of the article deals with laws on the protection of names. The analysis made for comparative purposes begins with a description of ways and premises of the protection of surnames and names. This protection has been specified in the civil code and in the law on the change of surnames and names. The latter legal instrument does not allow, i.a., to change names for historic ones that won fame in field of culture and science as well as in political, social of military venues. The reason for a legal need to protect names within the protection of monuments may also be derived from the law on the protection of the Anthem of the Polish People's Republic. The protection covers also the title-name of „Dqbrowski’s Mazurka". In the last part of his article, the author discusses aspects of the protection of historic names in the light of provisions of the law on the system of people’s councils and territorial self-governments. In this document, the Polish law-maker has specified rules of procedure and capacities with regard to changes in names of voivodships, localities, physiographic objects, names of housing estates, streets and squares in towns. At the end of the article, we find author’s proposals which give a detailed description of the legal protection of historic names (e.g. recognition of the name as a monument on the basis of administrative decision taken up by a voivodship monuments conservator, adding a section comprising historic names of immovables to the register of monuments. Finally, the author says that his intention was to point out the need for this kind of protection to the heritage of the past.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1986
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-29

Dates

published

1986

Contributors

author

Dobosz Piotr

• mgr, Instytut Prawa Admin is tracyjnego i Nauki Administracji Uniwersytet Jagielloński

References

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• P. D o b o s z , Charakter prawny decyzji i zezwoleń w sprawach ochrony zabytków, „Ochrona Zabytkow”, nr 3—4, 1985.

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247