Problem ochrony zabytków Gdańska w okresie drugiej wojny światowej

• Authors: Domańska Hanna

Title variants

EN

THE PROBLEM OF PROTECTING HISTORIC MONUMENTS OF GDANSK DURING THE 2ND WORLD WAR

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

While studying the problem of Gdahsk’s reconstruction the author of the present article has recently found in Manuscripts Section of the Library at the Polish Academy of Sciences a typewritten copy of the protocol on the town’s visiting made in 1942. The protocol was drawn by Keibel, head of a building team responsible for the protection of historic monuments against war damages. Apart from describing the then existing state of Gdańsk’s monuments, the text, consisting of 45 pages, included also recommendations as to securing architectural structures and their furnishings during the war. A special emphasis was put on measurement and photographic documentation of historic monuments as well as on disassembling art works and their adequate storing. A further consequence of the protocol was bringing to Gdańsk architect Jacob Deurer and his assisstants who drew that documentation in the years from 1942 to 1944. The documentation was made in 5 copies. Each copy consisted of 22 volumes containing about 2.5 thousand photos of Gdańsk’s most valuable architectural constructions and their furnishings as well as 400 measurements. At the same the monuments were secured as recommended by Keibel. Just recently, thanks to the endeavours of Polish scientists and conservators the only copy of the documentation, saved from the ravages of war, was brought from the F.R.G. offered by Wolfgang Deurer, the son of Jacob. It will still be of use to Polish conservators in their present and future conservation works.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1979
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 127-130

Dates

published

1979

Contributors

author

Domańska Hanna

• dr, Gdański Ośrodek Ochrony Dóbr Kultury

References

• Biblioteka PAN w Gdańsku, sygn. Ms 3135/III, Niederschrift uber die Besichtigung der Denkmalsbauten der Hansestadt Danzig in der Zeit vom 11. bis 18. October 1942. Verfasser: Oberreg — u. — baurat Keibel. W gornym, lewym rogu strony tytułowej znajduje się dodatkowy napis : Preussisches Finanzministerium. Baustab Keibel zur Abwendung von Kiegsschaden an Baudenkmalern.
• Wspomnienia z odbudowy Głownego Miasta zebrała Izabela T r o j a n o w s k a , Gdańsk 1978, p. wspomnienia Wiesława Gruszkowskiego, pracownika naukowego Politechniki Gdańskiej, s. 23—24, oraz byłego konserwatora miejskiego, Zdzisława Kwaśnego, s. 41—42.