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The article includes reports of the first half of 1946 submitted by Dea-con Edward Szendle, one of the first representatives of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church who came to the Masuria Region after the end of World War II.The author of the reports presents both situation of the Church building up its parish structures within the new area of its activity and also approach, mainly negative, towards both the Church itself and evangelical Masurian people from the part of the Polish state authorities and Catholic settlers coming from Poland to the former East Prussia.
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The article is focused on presenting the potential of local action groups in the extent of widely understood social development. The undertaken considerations refer to cultural conditions, which seem to be essential for the prosperity of local government structures. They also present the tourism resources as a great advantage and valor of the Warmia and Masury Voivodship.
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The article presents the image of Warmia and Masurian which was created in Saint Petersburg’s weekly “Kraj”. The chronological frames are related to the events from the foundation of “Kraj” to its closure(1882–1909).
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This article presents the history of Masuria created by the propaganda of socialist realism. Itsaim is to show how writers presented the nationality-based verification campaign and opinion pollsin the area of former East Prussia. The author attempts to prove that social realist writers describedthe above-mentioned action as “discovering” Polish identity by the inhabitants of Masuria. In orderto do that, four stories included in the anthology Ziemia serdecznie znajoma, published in 1954, areanalysed to show that strong pressure was exerted on the Masurians to confirm their Polish nationality.
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The article deals with the contemporary museum landscape on the territory of historical Masuria. Assuming – first of all – that the historical pillars of Masurian identity before the Second World War comprised the Polish language and evangelical denomination, and – secondly – that museums are institutions whose purpose is to archive, select and present artifacts as well as construct narration about the cultural memory of a group, the author of the article poses the question of the current presence of evangelical themes at the exhibitions of selected Masurian museums. An exhibition is understood here as a message addressed to receivers, and therefore the author uses the method of semiotic analysis of the visual stratum of selected exhibitions. The choice of the exhibitions discussed in the article is limited to museums located at operating evangelical churches (Museum of the Reformation in Mikołajki) or in former sacral buildings abandoned by evangelicals after 1945 (exhibitions on the premises of the open-air ethnographical museum in Olsztynek).
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The aim of this article is to describe Masurian Autonomy Movement. Members of the organisation would like to change status of a Warmia and Masuria voivodeship by separating Masuria as an autonomous region. It is said that Masuria is poor and underdeveloped because of its dependence on the government in Warsaw. They underline that being autonomous means having separate budget and tax system. What is more, Masuria should have autonomous regional parliament and their own independent policy which would not be contrary to the central Polish state policy. According to RAM, because of Masurian cultural difference region should have autonomous status which would enable to protect the regional culture. RAM represents type of regionalism called economic with political and cultural elements.
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In the 1860s it seemed that the evangelical Inner Mission would be recorded as an extremely interesting chapter in Masurian history, owing to Friedrich Salomon Oldenberg’s journey and Johann Hinrich Wichern, who was involved with it. However, a combination of events caused the Masurian issue to vanish rapidly out of the sight of the Mission’s head office in Berlin. Left on its own, the East Prussian department of the Inner Mission was not capable on its own – in spite of the tenuous efforts of individuals – to take steps going beyond its standard work, and neither did it intend to do so. This work, together with the development the Inner Mission in Masuria in general, was also paralysed by a lack of staff. It was not enough to lean on the overworked parish clergy, and lay people did not show much interest in it. The attempts to get through to Masuria’s population with the Mission’s ideas through the use of the press and literature were impeded by controversies concerning the Church’s policy on the German-speaking population and the pushing through of a radical Germanisation programme by some of the clergy connected with the Mission. The activity of the Mission reached other dimensions, aided by other institutions outside East Prussia, for the development of social services, children’s homes and orphanages. Their rapid development in the second half of nineteenth century was on the one hand a reaction to the terrible situation in the years 1867-1868 and on the other hand channeled into the general Prussian and German trend towards the modernization of the country, and was the consequence of economic and social improvement. Socially and industrially neglected Masuria benefited from the situation because on its territory, either in the centre or on the outskirts, many significant social care institutions were placed. It did not solve all the problems but provided protection for people in need. The Inner Mission, with relatively small but notable participation from the clergy, took part in the creation of many social care institutions, providing human resources.
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The Polish Lutheran Church between the years 1945-1956 was unable to gain the full confidence of its new German worshippers. This resulted in the treatment of this Church as a foreign and imposed one. When, in the course of time, the worshippers came to terms with the status quo, acceptance of the Church increased, but as a factor distinguishing them from Polish Catholics. The distance dividing them from migrant Poles, caused by national factors and historical experiences, was increased by religious differences. A significant role in this situation was played by the Small Group Movement. It did not have an organized nature, but its mental revivalist structuressurvived the period of the Second World War. An awareness of war atrocities strengthened the spirit of eschatology among some of the Small Group Movement members, which is why some of them accepted the existing political situation, regarding it as a penalty for disregarding God’s rules. Some of the Small Group Movement members, especially those who were previously in opposition to German Christians, began to co-operate with the Polish Lutheran Church, which was new to them. On the other hand, for some of the worshippers who existed in unofficial structures, there was an opportunity to fulfill their basic religious needs, which the Polish Lutheran Church was unable to offer them due to its organizational weakness. From the very beginning the key problem of organization was that caused by language, which was a throw-back to the situation in the nine-teenth century and the first years of Weimar Republic, when German was still considered to be “the Church language”. This was the reason why a significant part of the Small Group Movement met with mistrust from the Polish Lutheran Church, which for various reasons was implementing a Polonisation policy, and the open hostility of the police-administrative machinery. On the other hand, inside the Small Group Movement, there was little unity but numerous scattered initiatives, and an escalation of German national spirit became in many instances equally important, or even more important than religious matters.
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The Small Group Movement in East Prussia, in spite of some external inspiration, was an original product of the local Masurian (and Lithuanian) community, deeply embedded in it and reflecting its religious needs. Its initial radicalizing effect, however, created local distrust, but this was not characteristic of the Movement as such, but only some of its outer forms. Nevertheless, the Small Group Members, unless they denied it of their own will, remained the rightful members of their communities, and were not excluded from them. Modernization processes in the second half of the nineteenth century, marked by significant association trends, reached the community Movement as well, the expression of which was the establishment of the East Prussian Prayer Association in 1885 and other organizations originating from it. The source of these divisions were matters stemming from social tensions, general cultural changes and the desire to take up the challenge. However this Movement, remained in a large measure a bulwark of conservatism and multilinguistic conceptions of the Prussian state, the latter dating back to the period prior to 1871, although the desire to preserve old traditions (principally to maintain the Polish and Lithuanian languages as lingua sacra) did not mean resistance to the state. On the contrary, according to the criteria of the Movement, they acknowledged strictly every authority, unless it contravened common moral rules.
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This article presents interpretations of Erwin Kruk’s late poems included into his last two volumesof poetry: Znikanie [Vanishing] and Nieobecność [Absense]. In the course of analysis, the main themesof the senile poetry are considered: memory, evanescence and death. The puer senex theme in relationto the lyrical ego also receives the author’s attention as well as the regional context of Kruk’s poetry,i.e. its connections with the history of Masuria. However, the author notices the universality of thesepoems, as they convey a message which goes far beyond the limitations of regionalism.
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This article is an analysis of the linguistic view of the identity of Mazurian people in East Prussia presented in the literary reportage On the Trail of the Sad Devil by Melchior Wańkowicz. The main focus is put on symptoms and mechanisms of an identity formation and a cultural interpenetration at the ethnic borderland viewable in language. The text considers narrator and narrative construction. It also presents the Mazurian attitude towards native language in the early 20th century and its historical grounds.
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This article is an analysis of maple motives, which occurred in collection of Warmian and Masurian folk songs elaborated in XIX and XX century. The purpose of this study was to define meaning and function botanic vocabulary mentioned in folkloristic texts and to compare poetic representation of maple motif with its role in every-day-life and culture of Warmia and Masuria’s inhabitants. As it was deducted from maintained analysis, the folk output and botanic themes are a valuable source of information about identity of rural population from Warmia and Masuria territories. Utilization of maple motif in folksongs is characteristic for its strong resemblance to empiric reality, in which the plant plays a great role in every-day-life and in immaterial culture.
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The article discusses the process of naturalization of Masuria in Polish contemporary culture through the paradoxical naturalization of vegetation, and more broadly the nature of the region, understood as the construction of its naturalniess, timelessness and non-intrusion into historical and geopolitical processes. This process is referred to earlier Polonization efforts of the Masurian landscape. The author pays attention to the main changes in the attitude towards the Masurian greenery and the natural landscape on the example of the walking path around Lake Ołów in Ryn. Nature is presented as an element determining the identity of the place in the face of effective erosion of the Masurian identity in the course of geopolitical processes, supporting, from the second half of the twentieth century, the erasure of the memory of Prussian or German identity of these areas and sometimes deliberately used for it, and at the same time sometimes constituting the only trace of this identity.
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A characteristic feature of the morphology of Masurian cities, except the historic architecture and spatial layouts, is the significant scale of destruction of World War II and the legacy of socialist reconstruction. After 1989, in the new social and economic realities, renewal actions were taken. The main aim of the article, apart from the characteristics of the revitalisation and revalorisation of the studied towns, is to learn the opinions of their inhabitants about these processes. Six Masurian towns with different scale of war damage, forms of reconstruction and renewal were selected for analysis. The main analytical material are in-depth interviews with the inhabitants. The respondents positively assess the gradual improvement of the aesthetics and functionality of urban space, at the same time drawing attention to spatial disorder, the effects of the socialist period spatial plannig and contemporary barriers to development.
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Charakterystyczną cechą morfologii miast mazurskich, oprócz zabytkowej architektury i układów przestrzennych, jest znaczna skala zniszczeń z II wojny światowej oraz spuścizna odbudowy socjalistycznej. Po roku 1989 w nowych realiach społeczno-gospodarczych podjęte zostały działania naprawcze. Głównym celem artykułu, oprócz charakterystyki rewitalizacji i rewaloryzacji miast regionu, jest poznanie opinii ich mieszkańców na temat tych procesów. Do analizy wytypowano sześć miast mazurskich, o różnej skali zniszczeń wojennych, form przebudowy oraz rewitalizacji. Podstawowym materiałem analitycznym są wywiady pogłębione z mieszkańcami. Respondenci pozytywnie oceniają stopniową poprawę estetyki i funkcjonalności przestrzeni miejskiej, jednocześnie zwracając uwagę na nieład przestrzenny, skutki okresu socjalizmu oraz współczesne bariery rozwoju.
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The two hundredth anniversary of the coronation of the Duke of Prussia Frederick I in 1701 in Kӧnigsberg was a great opportunity for building a lasting monument of this event. For this occasion, fourteen jubilee churches were built in East Prussia. The financial resources for building the lasting jubilee monument came from the consistory of unity and uniting churches, from voluntary donations and benefactors. The effort was finished in 1912.The locations of new churches varied. After seventy years from the end of the World War II, in 2015, the fates of the churches were very different, 7 churches remained in Poland, only 4 have survived, in Russia 4 churches remained, not even one has survived, and 3 churches remained in Lithuania, only one has survived, and there is no trace left after two of them. The churches are of the sacred nature, yet many of them have been desecrated.
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Dwusetna rocznica koronacji króla pruskiego Fryderyka I w 1701 r. w Królewcu była doskonałą okazją wzniesienia trwałego pomnika tego wydarzenia. Na tę okazje podjęto wzniesienie czternastu świątyń jubileuszowych w Prusach Wschodnich. Środki finansowe na wzniesienie trwałego jubileuszowego pomnika pochodziły z Konsystorza Kościoła ewangelicko-unijnego z dobrowolnych ofiar i od dobroczyńców. Akcję ukończono w 1912 r. Miejsca lokowania nowych świątyń były bardzo różne. Po siedemdziesięciu latach od zakończenia II wojny światowej, w 2015 r., na terenie Polski pozostało 7 świątyń, ocalały tylko 4, na terenie Rosji pozostały 4 kościoły, nie ocalał ani jeden, zaś na Litwie pozostały 3, ocalał tylko jeden, po dwóch nie ma śladu. Świątynie z natury mają charakter sakralny, zaś na wielu z nich dokonano swoistej profanacji.
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This article is an analysis of names of species of trees and shrubs used in folk songs of Warmia and Masuria, which are dated from XIX and XX century. The names collected in ten Warmian and Masurian anthologies show varied material to study. In examined collection there are twenty–six names of trees and shrubs kinds used, i.e. birch-tree, beech, cedar, yew, cypress, oak, hawthorn, pear, apple-tree, juniper, rowan, sycamore, mistletoe, ash, fir, viburnum, maple, hazel, linden, alder, aspen, pine, spruce, poplar, willow, cherry-tree. The researched lexis, except for basic nouns, is created by formative derivatives, which are diminutive and collective names and deriving from substantives – adjectival lexemes describing species’ connection to part of plant and material, which specific object is made of. Almost every name, except for prevailing nationwide form, assumes bypass forms, representing dialectal phonetic phenomenon, which is the main purpose of this analysis. Moreover folk songs mention numerous dialectic terms for names of trees and shrubs species, which confirms variety in naming plants by inhabitants of Warmia and Masuria.
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Artykuł stanowi analizę nazw gatunków drzew i krzewów występujących w pieśniach ludowych z Warmii i Mazur, pochodzących z przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Słownictwo wybrane z dziesięciu antologii warmińsko-mazurskich przedstawia bogaty materiał gwarowy: w badanych zbiorach pojawia się dwadzieścia sześć nazw gatunków drzew i krzewów. Są to: brzoza, buk, cedr, cis, cyprys, dąb, głóg, grusza, jabłoń, jałowiec, jarzębina, jawor, jemioła, jesion, jodła, kalina, klon, leszczyna, lipa, olcha, osika, sosna, świerk, topola, wierzba i wiśnia. Badaną leksykę roślinną, oprócz rzeczowników podstawowych, tworzą derywaty słowotwórcze, którymi są nazwy deminutywne i kolektywne oraz derywowane od rzeczowników leksemy przymiotnikowe określające przynależność gatunkową części rośliny oraz tworzywo, z jakiego dany przedmiot został wykonany. Niemal każda nazwa, oprócz wykazującej zazwyczaj przewagę formy ogólnopolskiej, przyjmuje również formy oboczne, reprezentujące gwarowe zjawiska fonetyczne, które stanowią główny przedmiot niniejszej analizy. Ponadto pieśni ludowe notują liczne określenia gwarowe gatunków drzew i krzewów, takie jak choina, jegla, kadyk i osowa, co potwierdza bogactwo i różnorodność w nazewnictwie roślin wśród mieszkańców Warmii i Mazur.
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Współczesna turystyka nie może istnieć bez promocji. Władze miasta Ełk i okolic upatrują szansę rozwoju gospodarczego w turystyce przy wykorzystaniu ogromnego potencjału jakim jest środowisko naturalne. W tej sytuacji oczywiste jest, że nie dbając o środowisko naturalne sami pozbawiamy się naszego głównego atutu w konkurencyjnej walce o turystę. Działalność promocyjno-informacyjna służy nie tylko indywidualnym turystom, ale również organizatorom wypoczynku grupowego, restauratorom, branży hotelarskiej jak również pojedynczym gospodarstwom agroturystycznym. Im większa jest świadomość społeczeństwa o stanie obecnym środowiska naturalnego w ich najbliższej okolicy, tym łatwiej jest zaplanować działania mające na celu jego ochronę, jak też organizację kampanii reklamowych regionu.Bardzo szeroki wachlarz dostępnych narzędzi w dziedzinie gromadzenia, przetwarzania i udostępniania informacji może być w pełni wykorzystywany w turystyce z pełnym uwzględnieniem grup odbiorców, rynków czy poszczególnych produktów. Takimi odbiorcami są m.in.: samorząd lokalny i gospodarczy, przewoźnicy, piloci, przewodnicy, twórcy produktów turystycznych, animatorzy wydarzeń kulturalnych, firmy poszukujące usług turystycznych, turyści indywidualni oraz grupy zorganizowane, lokalne społeczności, media, szkoły turystyczne.Region Polski Północno-Wschodniej jest wolny od ciężkiego przemysłu. Bogactwo fauny i flory oraz wyjątkowe walory krajobrazowe przez wiele organizacji międzynarodowych zastały uznane za przyrodnicze dziedzictwo Europy. Celem  mieszkańców tych regionów powinno byc zachowanie i umacnianie tego wizerunku. Wiele jest przykładów państwa i regionów, które pogodziły rozwój gospodarczy z dbałością o środowisko naturalne. Warto dołączyć do tego elitarnego grona.
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Pogranicze mazursko-kurpiowskie swym zasięgiem obejmuje terytoria leżące na styku dwu krain geograficzno-historycznych, tj. obszar od Chorzel przez Myszyniec do Kolna na Kurpiach oraz po Nidzicę, Szczytno i Pisz na Mazurach. Długotrwałe procesy demograficzne i narodowościowe sprawiły, iż na tym obszarze sąsiadowały ze sobą zróżnicowane kulturowo i religijnie ludność kurpiowska i mazurska. Ruchy migracyjne na pograniczu mazursko-kurpiowskim na przełomie XIX i XX wieku, oprócz zmian w tradycyjnych stosunkach rodzinnych Mazurów i Kurpiów, wpłynęły również na zmianę stosunków demograficznych. Mimo wysokiego przyrostu naturalnego liczba mieszkańców utrzymywała się prawie na niezmienionym poziomie, ponieważ występowały ubytki migracyjne (ujemne saldo migracji). Emigracja zarobkowa z Kurpi do Prus Wschodnich ustała z chwilą wybuch I wojny światowej. Wtedy też stosunki geopolityczne na pograniczu mazursko- kurpiowskim uległy diametralnej zmianie. Emigracja zarobkowa wystąpiła ponownie w okresie międzywojennym, ale nie osiągnęła już takich rozmiarów jak na przełomie XIX i XX wieku.
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The Masurian-Kurpian border area covers the territories lying at the junction of two geographical and historical regions, i.e. the area from Chorzele through Myszyniec to Kolno in Kurpie and to Nidzica, Szczytno and Pisz in Masuria. Due to long-term demographic and national processes, two culturally and religiously diverse populations of Kurpie and Masurians neighboured each other. Migration flows on the border between Masuria and Kurpie at the turn of the 20th century changed not only traditional family relations of Masurians and Kurpie, but also demographic relations. Despite the high birth rate, the number of inhabitants remained almost unchanged, as there were migration losses (negative migration balance). Labour migration from Kurpie to East Prussia ceased when World War I broke out. At that time, geopolitical relations in the Masurian-Kurpian border region changed dramatically. Labour migration reappeared in the interwar period, but it did not reach the level of that at the turn of the 20th century.
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expectations that gave the treaty widespread approval in Germany in the 1920s have for the most part no longer been capable of consensus since the end of the Second World War, “Rapallo” has since become a liability for German foreign policy. The aim of the article is twofold: to describe the history of the Regional Chamber in Wejsuny, dividing its activity into two periods, and to present the person of its creator - Eugeniusz Bielawski,. On September 14, 1974, three years after its opening, the ownership of the Chamber was transferred to the commune by a notarial deed. Currently it houses many exhibits, including old household tools, cantional books, trunks, and furniture. In 2020, the chamber was reopened after a break of more than thirty years. The article describes the activities of the "new" Chamber, which largely coincided with the pandemic. Taking these circumstances into account, the author examines how the epidemic affected the functioning of this village museum. In this connection, she analyzed the portrayal of the activities of the institution in, among others, the publications about the chamber in the regional press (press content analysis) and scrutinized the main communication channel used by the museum curator (Virtual Regional Chamber, Wirtualna Izba Regionalna, Facebook profile - content analysis). The main purpose of the undertaken analyses is categorization of the content posted on the virtual profile of this cultural institution, evaluation of the multimedia nature of this content, an attempt to select the most popular materials, as well as checking whether and how web users respond to the posted messages. The author, using a variety of instruments, analyzes the main communication channel used by the curator of the museum (Wirtualna Izba Regionalna profile on Facebook) and describes the media activity of the institution with a view to popularizing the knowledge about the Chamber in the regional media. For this purpose, she uses unpublished fragments of diaries kept by the founder of the village museum in Wejsuny.
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