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Ochrona Zabytków

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2002

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issue 3-4

239-240

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The last few years have witnessed profound transformations affecting not merely the p o litical and economic aspects o f Polish reality but also culture and its national institutions. The cultural role performed by historical monuments, their valorisation as well as legcd and fin a n cia l situation are also succumbing to essential changes. Despite the fa c t that historical monuments are common property, the awareness o f their material and spiritual - historical and cultural - value is by no means universal. One o f the ways o f expanding this knowledge, a process whose outcome assumes the fo rm o f actual protection, is p o p u larisation, including the publication o f periodicals, both popular and specialist, such as the quarterly “Ochrona Zabytków ” “Ochrona Zabytków” is based on a forty-years long tradition, concealing the conscientious work o f numerous editors, and predominantly the knowledge and skills o f multiple authors, graphic artists and photographers. The periodical featured the studies o f outstanding researchers; a prominent contribution was made by renowned publishers and printers. “Ochrona Zab y tków” appeared under the aegis o f the Centre fo r the Documentation o f Historical Monuments, an institution established on 1 January 1962 and supervised by the Ministry o f Culture and Art. In October 2002 the Minister o f Culture created a new institution: the National Centre fo r Studies and the Documentation o f Historical Monuments, which is the effect o f a merge o f the above mentioned Centre and the Centre fo r the Protection of the Historical Landscape. The new institution took over all the tasks and the majority o f the duties o f its two predecessors, and in its capacity as the heir o f their traditions attempts to continue their most valuable publication series and pediodicals. In accordance with the statute o f the National Centre fo r Studies and the Documentation o f Historical Monument, as well as the decisions o f the Scientific Council o f the Centre and its new directors, we intend to issue “ Ochrona Zabytków ” as a p e riodical with the richest tradition and immense accomplishments. Its profile will be enhanced thanks to the introduction o f a new section on “Landscapes”, conceived as a continuation o f the periodical “Krajobrazy Dziedzictwa N a ro d ow eg o”, up to now published by the Centre fo r the Protection o f the Historical Landscape. We shall present the new publication approach in the fir s t quarterly o f the new series. Nonetheless, already at this stage we are capable o f declaring that we shall try to realise all the targets pursued by our predecessors - research-documentary, educational and popularisation. With due respect to the p a st we shall also attempt to remain worthy continuators o f past achievements. The presented fasc ic le - a jo in t third a n d fo u rth issue fo r 2002 appears with a delay caused by organisational changes, and has been conceived upon the basis o f m aterial gathered by previous editors and partially prepared by such publishers as Wojciech Fijałkowski, editor-in-chief, and M aria Barbasiewicz, secretary o f the editorial board. We would like to express our gratitude both to those publishers and members o f the editorial board. It is great pleasure to p resent the new series o f “Ochrona Zabytków ”, whose fir s t fa s cicle will deal more widely with our publication intentions, and introduce the new editorial board. More on our publisher - the National Centre for Studies and the Documentation of Historical Monuments on p. 316 and www.kobidz.org.pl

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Szanowni Państwo!

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Florjanowicz P.

Ochrona Zabytków

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2012

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issue 1-2

3-6

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The National Board of Poland, the publisher of the Ochrona Zabytków magazine, was established in 2011, but is already celebrating the 50th anniversary of its activity. How is that possible? The National Board of Poland, formerly the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments, is the legal successor of the Centre for Documentation of Monuments (CDM) – an institution to which the Polish conservation owes very much. CDM has been established by the then Minister of Culture and Art in 1962 and accomplished its tasks successfully for four successive decades. In 2002 the former CDM and the Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscape were merged to establish the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments (NCRDM), into which the Centre for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage was incorporated in 2007. In 2011, by the decision of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, NCRDM changed its name to the National Heritage Board of Poland. We decided to celebrate this magnificent anniversary with a special issue of our magazine. It will contain information about achievements of the Centre for Documentation of Monuments during 40 years of its existence and about the activities of the Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscape and the Centre for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage, i.e., the institutions on the basis of which NCRDM and later the National Heritage Board of Poland was established. The last jubilee issue of Ochrona Zabytków was published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of CDM exactly 10 years ago, at the beginning of 2002 (Ochrona Zabytków no. 1, 2002). A few months later, CDM ceased to exist in its then-current structure. Its ideas were continued by the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments and later the National Heritage Board of Poland. However, the current jubilee issue is different from the one published 10 years ago. Successive articles were arranged in a manner showing the continuity of the mission of our institution; articles on historical topics are accompanied by texts of current employees of the National Heritage Board of Poland (NHB), who continue the presented projects, at the same time adapting them to contemporary expectations of recipients and making use of the latest methodology. Anyway, innovation was the trademark feature of CDM – after all, it was one of the first conservation institutions in the world that collected documentation about historic object resources of the entire country in a standardised manner. It is something worth remembering. In the changing reality, we have to adapt the methodology of our activities to challenges of contemporary times, but the mission of CDM that was defined in its statutes 50 years ago remains valid: „to improve the stock-taking of monuments for the rational planning of their reconstruction and conservation”. Obviously, monuments are no longer reconstructed today, but the mission of NHB is still to create the basis for the sustainable preservation of heritage by gathering and disseminating knowledge about historical monuments, by setting standards for their protection and conservation, and by raising the social awareness of Polish cultural heritage in order to preserve it for posterity. The National Heritage Board of Poland acts at the intersection of many different fields of activity of the state and society and, therefore, runs a multitude of projects addressed to diverse target groups. Consequently, it is extremely difficult to pass information about the full scope of our activity to all interested persons. This volume does not contain all articles concerning the entire activity of NHB, either. For instance, the entire area of international co-operation was not covered, including important issues such as the implementation of part of the provisions of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, or expert co-operation with the Council of Europe and the European Commission that has been carried out successfully for a few years. There is also no mention of our activity concerning the support of conservation initiatives in the Ukraine and Belarus or the long-term program of revitalisation of the Muskau Park, which is managed directly by NHB. The role of NHB in the recognition of the most valuable objects as Monuments of History and our intense efforts to create their strong brand are not mentioned, either. Many other areas of NHB’s activity were not covered as well – not because they are less important, but because there was not enough space to write about everything. However, the primary idea of this special issue of Ochrona Zabytków was to present the original tasks of CDM and the manner in which their implementation is continued by NHB today. And the number of these tasks is continuously increasing and there will be many opportunities to write about them, also in this magazine. According to the promise made in the previous issue, Ochrona Zabytków is being transformed into a more interesting magazine that reflects more closely real and current conservation issues. When preparing this special issue, we assumed that each of us had the right to include his own memories and we treat the published texts as authors’ works. This applies particularly to the authors who participated in activities of CDM and other predecessors of NHB and look back on 50 years of achievements from a slightly different perspective. Some of them contain critical remarks about our current activities, which we humbly accept and for which I would like to thank very much here. Articles by current employees of NHB were written according to a completely different principle – they contain no criticism of the past. This is not our role, because we feel that we continue the idea of CDM formulated 50 years ago and, in spite of various twists and turns of history, our task is to pursue this mission and try to fulfil it as best as possible. We do not want to criticise things from the past, but to evolve and adapt our current activities to requirements of contemporary times. I believe that we succeed in doing this and I hope that you have this feeling, too. Finally, let me wish all of you, including former and current employees and collaborators of CDM, CPHL, the Centre for Archaeological Rescue Research, CPAH, NCRDM and NHB, in particular all former directors of those renowned institutions, all the best on the occasion of the jubilee of the 50th anniversary. I would like to thank you for your work, knowledge and passion, because it is the passion, commitment and personal attitude to the tasks being undertaken that connects authors of past successes of CDM with today’s creators of the image of the National Heritage Board of Poland.

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Od Ośrodka Dokumentacji Zabytków do Narodowego Instytutu Dziedzictwa

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Wendlandt J.

Ochrona Zabytków

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2012

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issue 1-2

35-47

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By the Order no. 166 of the Minister of Culture and Art of 22 December 1961, the Centre for Documentation of Monuments was established “for the purpose of improvement of the stock-taking of monuments for the rational planning of their reconstruction and conservation”. Its tasks included the preparation of the central register, record and supplementary documentation of non-movable and movable monuments. CDM’s substantive activity was based on record cards of non-movable (ca 40,000) and movable monuments, record files of cities, historic complexes and parks, historical and technical documentation of historic objects of architecture and historic buildings as well as archival and photographic materials acquired from the then existing Administration of Museums and Monument Protection. Tasks were performed by the Centre in three research departments: the Department of Architecture and Town Planning, the Department of Movable Monuments and the Department of Archaeology and in supplementary departments: the Department of Museology, which collected and documented knowledge about Polish museums, the Department of Archives and Scientific Collections, which collected, among others, materials relating to the historical issues and conservation of monuments, and the Phototeque with a unique collection of negatives, positives and diapositives, including historic aerial photographs of historic urban complexes and spatial development layouts. This collection is particularly important, because it often concerns the objects that no longer exist. Among achievements of the Department of Publications, which existed in the Centre from the beginning, it is particularly worth noting one hundred volumes of the Library of Muse ology and Monument Protection (LMMP) devoted to a variety of topics: from legal protection of monuments, materials from conservation conferences, specialistic issues of the conservation technology, to glossaries. For many years CDM was the publisher of a number of magazines devoted to popular science: Spotkania z Zabytkami, Muzealnictwo and Ochrona Zabytków. What also existed in CDM from the beginning, was the library – one of the few libraries in Poland that had not only a collection of books on the history of art and museums, but also a collection of books on issues of stock-taking and documentation of monuments and conservation issues – both with regard to theory and practice. Within the limits of its statutory activity, the Centre kept a central record of cultural properties, determined models and established standards of record-keeping. It organised training courses for employees of Conservation Offices and Offices for Documentation of Monuments, directed priorities in the preparation of records of monuments and supervised periodically the financing of the entire record-keeping programme in Poland. For the purpose of closer co-operation with conservation services and local administration bodies, twelve Centres for Studies and Protection of the Cultural Environment were established as local centres of CDM in 1991 and 1992. In 2000, part of CDM’s competences relating to the initiation and financing of records was transferred to conservation services and the Centre became responsible only for archives and information. Until then, during 40 years of its activity, CDM had collected and co-created an imposing record documentation, which constituted a unique collection encompassing around: • 130,000 record cards of historic objects of architecture and historic buildings, • 640,000 address index cards of historic objects of architecture and historic buildings, • 600 historical & urban planning studies of cities, • 320,000 record cards of movable monuments, • 6,600 files of the Archaeological Photograph of Poland (68% of the surface of the country; 375,000 archaeological sites), • 70,000 decisions on entry into the register of monuments (all categories of monuments), • 130,000 negatives and 1,000 binders of positives in the phototeque, • 35,000 negatives, diapositives and photographs of the aerial documentation of cities and the cultural landscape, • 50 linear metres of archival materials, • 60,000 volumes of books and magazines in the library. Moreover, CDM had at its disposal materials of the State Enterprise Monument Conservation Workshops from years 1948-1988 (750 linear metres of conservation documentation, 250,000 negatives, 1,881 photogrammetries, 8 linear metres of photographs in boxes). These materials were not only used by the personnel of conservation services, but also made widely available for scientific and educational research. In 2002, two cultural institutions: the Centre for Documentation for Monuments and the Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscape were merged and the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments was established. The Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscape was created on the basis of the Administration of the Protection and Conservation of Palace & Garden Complexes, which functioned from 1977 within the structures of the National Museum in Warsaw. Originally it engaged in the maintenance of historic parks in the divisions of the National Museum –in Łazienki Park, Wilanów, Nieborów and Królikarnia. The methods that were used there in broadly understood conservation activities, from historical research to the revitalisation of these parks, were employed to work out theoretical and practical rules relating to the maintenance of historic green layouts in the scale going beyond museum objects. In those years, there were no specialistic institutions taking care of historic parks; these shortages were particularly severe for local conservation offices, which employed mainly historians of art, architects, ethnographers and archaeologists in their structures. Only a small group of landscape architects or foresters took care of historic greens. Because of the need to support voivodeship conservators of monuments, the Administration of the Protection of Palace & Garden Complexes was separated from the National Museum and started nationwide activity as an independent entity. As far as records and documentation are concerned, the Administration’s activity was similar to that of CDM, but was carried on with regard to historic green layouts – parks, gardens and cemeteries, including former Polish cemeteries situated outside the country. Apart from that, the Administration was authorised by the General Conservator of Monuments to exercise the broadly understood heritage conservator supervision of works being performed in historic parks in Poland. The co-operation concerned both design and performance. For instance, a programme of clearing works in neglected parks was commenced, under which conservators and users received an instruction concerning the performance of basic maintenance works before proper revitalisation activities. The Administration elaborated also the rules of preparation of conservation documentation, paying particular attention to the need to carry out historical & scientific research before design works. It was also the originator of pre-design research that was called “park archaeology”. From the beginning of its activity, the Administration ran a large-scale training programme for conservation services. A design studio was also created to carry out park revitalisation projects within the scope of statutory activity. At the same time, a scientific base was created by establishing a specialised library and collecting all materials concerning the history of gardening. Research on park plants and their selection in the historical development process was also initiated. Grounds were even created for the establishment of a specialised nursery which was to prevent the spreading fashion for introduction of foreign species of trees and shrubs to historic parks through selection of native plants occurring in historic gardens. The large-scale research and record-keeping programme resulted in a series of publications, including the list Parks and historic gardens in Poland, catalogues of historic cemeteries in various provinces, a catalogue of Galician cemeteries from World War I and catalogues of Polish cemeteries in Belarus and the Ukraine. Special attention in the activity of the Administration was paid to the role of historic parks in the local environment and their importance for the cultural landscape. In this context, research on particularly endangered large-area layouts and composed landscape was commenced. As a result of the extended research zone and environment protection activities, the Administration of the Protection of Palace & Garden Complexes was transformed into the Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscape on 1 January 1994. Special achievements of CPHL include activities for the benefit of the Muskau Park in Łęknica, a park & landscape work of primary importance for the history of the world art of gardening. For the purpose of ensuring proper progress of revitalisation works, CPHL took over the administration of this facility and restored the original grandeur and importance of the park after a few years of intense work, as a result of which the park was entered into the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage list. CPHL carried on very intense training & conference activities, and materials acquired by means of them were systematically published in a few dozen volumes of the Studia i Materiały publication, which was divided into several thematic series. The National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments basically continued the tasks of both merged institutions, but focused rather on documentation works and the elaboration of methods of protection and maintenance of monuments, and direct design and field works were gradually limited. Higher importance was attached to giving opinions on various projects, including conservation projects. NCRDM became the main provider of opinions for the General Conservator of Monuments. In addition, NCRDM engaged in the preparation of materials connected with the establishment of a monument of history (including the elaboration of a draft of criteria for the application and the carrying-out of the procedure), giving of opinions on and verification of applications. It also prepared a proposal for monitoring of historic objects regarded as monuments of history and entered into the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage list. The computerisation of collections became one of the most important tasks of NCRDM. NCRDM had already commenced work on that subject in the past, but these were not complex activities aimed at creating a unified programme for all kinds of documentation. NCRDM also started to make 3D scans of historic objects for the needs of conservation services and activities. It is worth mentioning that from 2002 till 2006 NCRDM did not engage in recording of archaeological monuments, because this function was fulfilled by the Centre for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage. Its predecessor was the Centre for Rescue Archaeological Research (CRAR) established in 1995, whose primary goal was to supervise and examine areas laid out for large-area investments being designed. These activities were particularly necessary in areas through which national fast traffic roads were to run. Within the scope of CRAR’s research, a huge number of archaeological sites was examined within a relatively short time and many important scientific discoveries were made. Irrespective of the specific nature of archaeological research, which was different from research on other kinds of monuments, scientific and record documentation was being prepared, the meaning and significance of which was identical to that of documentation of monuments in general. Thus, the activities of the Centre for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage turned out to coincide in many respects with work of the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments. As a result, both of these cultural institutions were merged in 2006. Until 31 December 2010, they functioned as the National Centre for Research and Documentation of Monuments, which changed its name to the National Heritage Board of Poland by virtue of the order of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on 1 January 2011. This change involves also the adoption of new statutes, according to which the Institute is obliged to pursue tasks relating to the sustainable protection of the cultural heritage of Poland in order to preserve it for future generations through: 1. the collection and dissemination of knowledge about heritage; 2. the determination and dissemination of standards of protection and maintenance of monuments, 3. the formation of social awareness regarding the values and maintenance of cultural heritage. This shows that, apart from activities being performed so far, e.g. with regard to the collection of record documentation, the goal of the Institute is to undertake tasks on a broader social scale, especially those relating to the dissemination of knowledge on cultural heritage. This goal should be supported by activities such as the monitoring of the state of preservation and the evaluation of the heritage resource, the building and development of the nationwide geospatial database about monuments and the improvement of access to collections through their digitalisation. The Institute continues to issue opinions and expertises concerning monument-related activities to public administration bodies, but it is also obliged to carry out, upon the Minister’s order, a part of tasks of the ministry of culture resulting from the accession of Poland to the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention and, in particular, carry out works to ensure standards of protection, conservation and presentation of World Heritage sites, monitor and evaluate their condition, co-ordinate work on the preparation of management plans and supervise their implementation as well as participate in international co-operation with a view to the protection of cultural heritage. In order to implement these tasks, the Institute has the properly qualified staff and supplements its technical equipment within the limits of its financial possibilities. Some difficulty is caused by the lack of adequate place both for the expanding documentation resources and for arrangement of research workshops. The Centre for Documentation of Monuments has actually grappled with the lack of appropriate premises since the beginning of its existence; currently, after a series of organisational changes and mergers, the National Heritage Board of Poland with its rich archives and specialistic workshops is located in four separate facilities in and outside Warsaw, in accidental rooms that are completely inadequate to the kind of its activity. This means that, after 50 years of its activity, the institution is entering the new stage as the National Heritage Board of Poland without a seat that would be adequate to its name and role. Such a situation hinders the current activity of the institution and, in the first place, does not contribute to the improvement of mutual relations between employees and the building of an integrated team and causes a serious problem to a very large number of clients making use of the dispersed collections.

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Zagadnienia ochrony dziedzictwa kulturowego krajobrazu

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Świątkowski M.

Ochrona Zabytków

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2002

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issue 3-4

383-390

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The national heritage of landscapes is one of the most valuable goods of the material legacy of national culture. Cultural landscape is of great social significance for the maintenance of the tradition of seeking national roots and identity. Over centuries, the landscape has been shaped in accordance with the characteristic traits of a given region, natural environment and national culture, and featured the diversity of ethnic cultures. Postwar years brought evolving landscape management inconsiderate and unattractive urban and rural development as well as economically unrelated forms of economic management. General confusion and a lack of identity of the site of the socalled little homeland call for a common awareness of the need for extending protection over entire areas of the cultural landscape in their conserved historic shape. Conservation practice, together with theoretical knowledge acquired during the protection of historic landscapes, paves the way to novel, world-wide trends in cultural heritage protection. It extends protection over not merely individual and collective complexes of historic property, but also moulded landscape areas, cementing the diversified conservation issues of the protection of all of its cultural ingredients in a coherent entity. Harmonious cultural and measured laid-out landscape, settlement landscape, industrial landscape and landscapes of linked natural and technological elements, battlefield landscapes and religious landscapes, with their individual, characteristic features, are a manifestation of national culture and tradition. To preserve the cultural heritage of landscapes it is necessary to devise mechanisms of sustainable development, in which the rank of culture, tradition and history of a region will equal its economic counterpart. Sustainable natural cultural and economic development increasingly resorts to the activation of tourism, involving the growing economic importance and dimension of historic landscapes and their promotion. A link between history and transformation may be seen in the cultural landscape, which plays an ever larger role in the cultural heritage protection strategy within the European Union.

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Zarys historii ochrony i konserwacji zabytków sztuki ogrodowej w Polsce

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Sikora D.

Ochrona Zabytków

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2016

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issue 1

105-142

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Artykuł ma na celu przybliżenie długiej tradycji zainteresowania dziełami sztuki ogrodowej w Polsce. Początkowo przejawiało się ono w sporządzaniu planów, szkiców i opisów ogrodów, zazwyczaj przy okazji dokumentowania ważnych obiektów architektonicznych, którym towarzyszyły. Z czasem właściciele ogrodów, kierując się szacunkiem dla dokonań swoich poprzedników, zaczęli chronić i konserwować spuściznę wcześniejszych pokoleń. Sztandarowym przykładem poszanowania dla historycznej kompozycji ogrodowej w wieku XVIII było zachowanie, pomimo zmieniającej się mody w sztuce ogrodowej, wilanowskiego kwaterowego ogrodu tarasowego, wiązanego z kultem pierwszego właściciela – Jana III Sobieskiego. W wieku XIX pojawiało się coraz więcej publikacji poświęconych tematyce ogrodowej a wyrosłe na fali romantyzmu zainteresowanie przeszłością spowodowało nasilenie badań naukowych. Artykuł prezentuje ważne etapy w rozwoju metodyki badań i konserwacji zabytków sztuki ogrodowej, przedstawia zasłużonych na tym polu działaczy oraz historię powojennych państwowych instytucji powołanych dla ich ochrony.

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The article aims at bringing a long tradition of interest in works of garden art in Poland closer to readers. At first, the interest was manifested in creating plans, sketches and descriptions of gardens, usually while documenting important residential architecture they accompanied. Over time, garden owners, guided by respect to accomplishments of their predecessors, began protecting and preserving the legacy of previous generations. A flagship example of respect for a historic garden composition in the 18th century was the preservation of a terraced garden in Wilanów linked to the cult surrounding its first owner – John III Sobieski, despite changing trends in the garden art. In the 19th century more and more publications dedicated to garden issues began to appear, while interest in the past – rooted in Romanticism – led to the intensification of scientific research. The article presents important stages in the development of methodology of research and preservation of historic gardens, presents distinguished activists in this field and a history of state institutions established for the purpose of protection thereof after the war.

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