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Western Pomerania is a region that is known among tourists mainly because of the sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea. Most of the more than 2 million tourists, who visit the region each year, come in summer and head straight for the beach resorts. This leads to a significant space-time concentration of tourism activity which is unfavorable in terms of the preservation of natural assets, as well as for socio-economic reasons. The region is perceived as not attractive for cognitive tourism, including geotourism. The eruption of oil and gas in Karlino in 1980 belongs to one of the most interesting events in the recent history of the region. This event has inspired the Karlino municipal authorities to create a modern educational museum that would commemorate the event and creatively present the formation processes of energy fuels throughout the geological history of the Earth. The creation of this facility would be an excellent opportunity to popularize geological knowledge among numerous tourists visiting the nearby beach resorts and would contribute to the socio-economic activation of the residents of the Karlino municipality.
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Before the Second World War the level of electrification of what was to be Western Pomerania after the war was much higher than in other Polish regions. The differences were even bigger in the rural areas. In the aftermath of the war and as a result of the post-war devastation the energetic infrastructure was reduced even more. In spite of a relatively good initial situation the return to the pre-war state and a full electrification of the villages in Western Pomerania required a lot of capital investment and the task was fraught with difficulties. The whole process had a political dimension, too. The authorities hoped that thanks to the improvement of living conditions of the rural population that section of society would support the socialist regime. Together with electrification it became easier to reach the inhabitants of the rural areas with the propaganda message.
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The rescue excavations being the subject of the article were carried out in 2007 and 2008 on 11 archaeological sites revealed on the S-3 motorway. There was an area of 1441 ares unearthed (144,1 m2) and there were 2,835 features recorded of the Ahrensburg culture, the Linear Pottery culture, the Funnelbeaker culture, the Globular Amphora culture, the Corded Ware culture, the Lusatian culture, the Jastorf culture, the Wielbark culture, as well as dated to early and late medieval and modern times. The discoveries on the S-3 motorway have been of great importance for complete recognition of various aspects of subsistence and settlement changes observed in Western Pomerania (Pomorze Zachodnie) from the final Palaeolithic to modern times.
Ikonotheka
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2017
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vol. 27
187-209
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The triptych from Łekno was painted in 1588 and commissioned by one of the five sons of Duke Philip I of Wolgast of the Griffin dynasty. The painter, who signed the work with the initials CS (and may perhaps be identified as Christoff Schreiber), used graphic patterns in the composition of biblical scenes and included crypto-portraits of Griffin rulers in the depictions of the Last Supper and Crucifixion. After Anna of Stettin married Ulrich III of Mecklenburg, another (also unknown) artist repainted the face of one of the apostles into a high-quality portrait of the duke of Mecklenburg.
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The article presents the results of an investigation focused on books created throughout the operation of various professional guilds and associations in Western Pomerania. It is a particular kind of a document in which the professional life of a guild (corporation) as well as social life are reflected. On more than one occasion the books were written throughout many successive generations encompassing a time frame of even several centuries, and, therefore, they constitute an extraordinary and valuable historical source of information. The books under scrutiny were divided into the following categories: office books covering the entire activity of a guild (Amtsbuch), and specialized books – books of records (Protokollbuch), books ran by masters, journeymen and apprentices (Meister-, Gesellen- and Lehrjungenbuch), account books (Rechnungsbuch) and, on few occasions, normative books. The article presents a substantial diversity of the issues addressed in individual types of the books and discusses their format. The source material for the study are the items held in the State Archive in Szczecin. A far reaching similarity in the functioning of the guilds, also those from outside Pomerania, allows us to apply the results of the study to other guild associations as well.
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Niniejsze badanie koncentruje się na księgach powstałych w wyniku działalności organizacji cechowych na Pomorzu Zachodnim. Jest to specyficzny rodzaj zabytków, w których odzwierciedla się życie zarówno zawodowe, jak i społeczne oraz towarzyskie korporacji. Pisane były niejednokrotnie przez kolejne pokolenia, obejmują nawet kilka stuleci, przez co stanowią cenne źródło historyczne. Księgi dzieliły się na urzędowe, obejmujące całokształt działalności (Amtsbuch), oraz wyspecjalizowane – księgi protokołów (Protokollbuch), księgi mistrzów, czeladników i uczniów (Meister-, Gesellen- i Lehrjungenbuch), księgi rachunkowe (Rechnungsbuch) i księgi normatywne. Tekst ukazuje znaczną różnorodność kwestii poruszanych w poszczególnych rodzajach ksiąg, a także ich formę zewnętrzną. Podstawę do badań stanowią obiekty przechowywane w Archiwum Państwowym w Szczecinie. Daleko posunięte podobieństwo w funkcjonowaniu cechów poza granicami Pomorza pozwala na przeniesienie wniosków również na inne organizacje cechowe.
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The research done so far into the problems of the poor and into begging and vagrancy in the 19th century in Western Pomerania has indicated that the state’s role in eliminating these phenomena was dominant and indisputable. It is possible that this thesis is true for the whole 19th century, but as it seems at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries the state’s role in solving the problems of the poor is defi nitely overestimated, whereas the role of the Pomeranian social estates (classes) underestimated. Formally, the governing body over the West-Pomeranian public correction centres or rather establishments of forced labour, which were created in 1799, was the Genera Directorate. The Centres were managed partly by a state’s body (Pomeranian War and Treasury Chamber), and partly by estate bodies: local parliament (das Kollegium of the Landrats) and the Landrats of the Counties, where the Centres were established in April 1799; the latter covered the main costs of the functioning of the centres. The Hinterpommern (Farther Pomerania) centre was located in Szczecinek, and the Vorpommern one – in Uckermünde. The situation of both centres were discussed by the gatherings of the estates not only in 1799, but in 1804–1805 and in 1809 as well. All these facts prove that the Pomeranian estates participated actively in the creation of the Pomeranian public correction or rehabilitation centres, and later in their functioning at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Since the end of the 1950s Tadeusz Białecki has shown an interest in memoirs concerning the post-war Western Pomerania. Still as a worker of the Regional and Municipal Library in Szczecin he initiated a cycle of reminiscences of librarians; yet, he really took to memoir literature in the mid-1960s when he gathered and sorted out an extensive output of numerous memoirs competitions and cycles. A special place in Professor’s Białecki’s social and research activities is occupied by the competition called the ‘History of Szczecin Families in the 20th Century’, with which he has been connected since the beginning, i.e. since 1969. The reminiscences collected for years, which in many cases appeared in print, are a unique source to get to know the history of Western Pomerania better. In the past few years Tadeusz Białecki himself has been publishing his own memoirs, which depict the life and career of one of the most famous and distinguished Szczecin historians in a detailed and colourful way.
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The main goal of this elaboration is presentation of hitherto development and prospective potentials of agrotouristics and rural tourism in seaside regions against a national background. Agrotouristics and rural tourism were treated a bit more extensively.
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The preparation of a proper zoning plan or landscape-ecological plan requires taking into account recognition of the natural values of an area covered by the plan and evaluating its abiotic and biotic diversities. The aim of the paper is to present the new approach to the procedure of geodiversity and biodiversity assessment. This procedure is used to characterise abiotic and biotic heterogeneity of the postglacial landscape modified by a man, tested on Dębnica River catchment (Western Pomerania, Poland). This catchment is a representative example illustrating the landscape of Central European Plain. The analytical algorithm of the geodiversity assessment is based on appropriate selection of the evaluation criteria: lithological, relative heights, landform fragmentation, hydrographical elements and mesoclimatic conditions. Biodiversity was assessed on the basis of real vegetation, potential natural vegetation and the degree of anthropisation of the natural vegetation with respect to syngenesis of plant associations. Seven factor maps were obtained: five for the diversity of abiotic elements, and two for the diversity of biotic elements, which became the basis for the creation of total geodiversity and biodiversity maps. Maps produced in accordance with given methodology may find a wide range of applications.
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The article presents the political and geographical considerations and the development of Jews in agriculture in Poland in the first years after the Second World War. The analysis was made in the context of the implementation of the policy so-called productivisation, which was based on increasing employment among the Jews (and other groups) in the industry, the cooperative sector and the rural economy. The areas of the largest concentration of Jewish farms were Lower Silesia and north-western Poland, especially two counties: Stargard and Choszczno. Despite the financial and material support (among others the Society for the Propagation of Professional Knowledge ORT), many farmers did not succeed at ensuring the profitability of their farms. However, the launch of farms quite quickly improved the dire material situation of Jews. The most resigned, fearful and hurt among them, who saw handing over their fate to appropriate institutions as their only chance for a change in living conditions, found employment in agriculture.
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The paper deals with the ambiguous origination of the symbol of Griffin in the Duchy of Pomerania, i.e. the way how the motif was implemented in the Pomeranian culture, as well as when it happened and in which form. The paper includes an analysis of the oldest iconographic relics from Pomerania with an image of Griffin and it offers some explanations why that symbol appeared in the Duchy. The paper also provides some information on the origin of the symbol as far back as the ancient and medieval times.
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Because of geographical distribution, origin, political involvement and religious specificity, Lutherans of Western Pomerania are treated as a border community. The largest populations of Polish-speaking Protestants occurred in the counties of Lębork, Bytów and Słupsk. This commu-nity disappeared at the end of the nineteenth century, although still in the 20s and 30s, researchers recorded a lot of people who knew the Kashubian dialect. Lutherans in the Kashubian region were generally unknown to religious communities of Masuria, Silesia and the Polish Kingdom. More knowledge about them brought only through a study conducted by Alexander Hilferding — a Russian Slavicist traveling in these areas in 1856. The greatest popularity in the definition of this com-munity has won ethnonym Slovincians propagated by Alexander Hilferding. Available sources and studies mainly publish information on the language, especially its use in church services and teach-ing religion. Thera are, however, extremely rare eyewitness accounts relating used hymn books and cantionals, popularity of a particular repertoire and the context of its practice. From the relation-ship and visitation of church printed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, we know that they were used in religious services “Polish songbooks”. The oldest of them is cantional prepared by a priest Simon Krofey from Bytów with a handwritten appendix compiled from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Pastor Lorek from Cecenowo immortalized in the consciousness of later generations stereotypes of a tacit and gloomy Kashubian. However, according to later observers, Kashubians sang willingly and often but only a religious repertoire, while the folk song and dance sounded very rare. Considering the available sources it seems that the inhabitants of these lands — like the Protestants from Silesia and Masuria had used their own repertoire, which could be performed in an original and unique way.
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The article presents one of the ways to create the contemporary coats of arms for the West-Pomeranian counties, of which the overwhelming majority appeared after the new administrative division of the country in 1999. Only six county coats of arms drew on the pre-war heraldic tradition: Pyrzyce, Choszczno, Myślibórz, Łobez, Świdwin, and Szczecinek. The reception of the German municipal heraldry in the West-Pomeranian Region was carried out in two ways. The fi rst was to take over the pre-war coats of arms and approved it by the County Council; the second – to accept new coats of arms but based on the German antecedents. The fi rst way was used by two counties: Choszczno and Łobez; the second was used by the counties of Myślibórz, Szczecinek, Pyrzyce and Świdwin.
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The article is a presentation of the monographic research into the territorial communities of Western Pomerania. The research of that type has been carried out – with various intensity – from the end of the 1950s. The tradition of the monographic field research has its origins in sociology and cultural anthropology, and its characteristic feature is a comprehensive, many-sided approach to the community under scrutiny in a wide context of environmental, economic, political and historical factors. Such a manner of carrying out research is radically different from the survey type that is dominant in sociology.
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Franz Theodor Kugler’s (1808–1858) work on the general history of art is well known owing to English and German speaking scholars. Researchers from outside Pomerania are less familiar (or not at all) with the content and significance of the Pommersche Kunstgeschichte published in 1840. The purpose of this article is to discuss the value of this publication. It is one of the first studies of Pomeranian art history in Europe and in the world. Kugler described the most important monuments of the region, especially those located in towns and along transportation routes, which he visited in the summer of 1839. Although he noticed that art in Pomerania originated in pagan times, he mainly demonstrated examples of Christian art from the period of the twelfth century onwards. Pomeranian art was thus Christian and Germanic to him. His analysis concludes with examples from the eighteenth, and a few from the nineteenth century. He was the first researcher to pose the question of the existence of Pomeranian art as a specific art, distinctive from others. In order to address this question he tried to identify its characteristics, which the article tries to point out. Many of Kugler’s theses were maintained and developed by Polish art historians after 1945, which proves the value of his intuition as a researcher. Kugler’s monograph laid the foundation for further research into Pomeranian art. Paradoxically, however, its existence delayed work on the first comprehensive inventory of the region’s historic sites because it was considered by some to be a quasi-inventory of historic monuments.
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The article presents the West-Pomeranian Province, a region with the highest number of tourist accommodation (places to stay) (17,6%). The years 1999–2011 have been taken into consideration. The data concerning this province have been presented in comparison with the vastness and the structure of the overall Polish accommodation providers. A considerable amount of attention has been paid to the tourist values of the region.
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The nationalisation of industry after 1945 is a topic of great importance for the history of Poland after the Second World War, which, however, has been insufficiently explored, especially with regard to in-depth research of particular cases. The takeover of industrial plants by the state authorities was complicated, especially in the Recovered Territories, where both everyday life and the administrative structures of the Polish state were in turmoil. The preserved archival materials made it possible to trace the process of nationalising several important food industry plants, namely the breweries in Szczecin, Słupsk and Szczecinek. The article analyses the intricate history of the takeover of these plants by the state authorities. In the course of research it was determined that although the Main Office of the Temporary State Administration, and later the District Liquidation Offices, had the best legal basis to have the full right to these plants, there were many more institutions interested in taking them over. On the local government level these were the City Board, the Provincial Office and the District Office, and on the state level the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Recovered Territories and the Central Planning Office. Additionally, producer cooperatives, initially supported by state authorities after the end of the war, also became involved. It was not until the late 1940s that these breweries came under the control of central state authorities, which took place at the expense of the producer cooperatives and local governments and, moreover, in a manner that raised legal questions.
Zapiski Historyczne
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2021
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vol. 86
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issue 2
125-136
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In his book published in 2019, Sébastien Rossignol has inquired into medieval ducal charters issued in Silesia, Western Pomerania and Eastern Pomerania as a means of communication between the rulers and the ruled in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The purpose of this discussion article is to assess the scholarly value of Rossignol’s publication and to engage in a discussion of his proposed research strategy. The very subject of the reviewed book is noteworthy, as it goes beyond the issues concerning the functioning of ducal chanceries and the charters they produced that researchers have taken up so far. Rossignol proposes to look at medieval charters issued by the Silesian and Pomeranian dukes in the context of how they functioned in the system of communication in medieval society. Thus, the subsequent chapters of his book analyse how the intitulation and the preamble influenced the recipients of the charter, as well as the visual rhetoric of medieval charters issued by the dukes of Silesia, Western and Eastern Pomerania. It is also worth noting that the comparative approach used by the author to present the analysed issues required him to select territories at a similar level of social, economic and political development and with a similar state of research on medieval diplomatics. However, this selection raises a number of questions due to the inclusion of Eastern Pomerania, which stands apart from the other two regions in this context, and due to the insufficient state of research on the visual rhetoric of charters issued in Silesia and Pomerania during the medieval period.
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The organisation of industrial health service in the years 1945–1955 may be characterised as dynamic. Various factors were at work, among which the most important ones are the following: historical and political conditions, changes taking place in the system of health service, and the socio-economic development. After 1945 the system was created in stages. The first one, initiated still in 1944, was preliminary, preparatory. It was then when the main guidelines for the subsequent years were set down. In addition, the appropriate laws were prepared, which influenced significantly the organisation of the health service, including its industrial branch. The second stage occurred at the beginning of the 1950s. Then the industrial health service was properly organised; and the full-scale development proceeded during the six-year plan, when the health service for workers acquired special significance. The system covered especially workers employed in strategic industrial sectors. The changes in the industrial health service was a background for presenting the organisation of the health service in Western Pomerania in the period in question.
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Organizacja przemysłowej służby zdrowia w latach 1945–1955 odznaczała się swoistą dynamiką, na co wpływały różnorodne czynniki, wśród których za najważniejsze można uznać: uwarunkowania historyczne, polityczne, przemiany zachodzące w służbie zdrowia, rozwój społeczny, gospodarczy. Jej tworzenie po 1945 roku przebiegało etapami. Pierwszy, rozpoczęty jeszcze w 1944 roku, miał charakter wstępny, przygotowawczy. W tym to bowiem okresie wyznaczono główne kierunki działań na lata następne. Ponadto przygotowano określone rozwiązania ustawodawcze, które zasadniczo wpłynęły na organizację służby zdrowa, w tym przemysłowej. Drugi etap przypadł na początek lat pięćdziesiątych. Czas ten przyniósł właściwą organizację przemysłowej służby zdrowia, której zasadniczy rozwój nastąpił w okresie planu sześcioletniego, kiedy to ochrona zdrowia robotników nabrała szczególnego znaczenia. Objęci nią w sposób szczególny zostali robotnicy zatrudnieni w strategicznych sektorach przemysłowych. Przemiany zachodzące w tworzeniu przemysłowej służby zdrowia dały tło do zaprezentowania organizacji ochrony zdrowia robotników na Pomorzu Zachodnim w analizowanym okresie.
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This article is an attempt to present the fate of the AK officer Major Joseph Roman after 1945, his participation in anti-communist activities within the area command of the West AK, DSZ and WiN, and attempts to create post-communist anti-Communist structures in West Pomerania.
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