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The author presents the issue in question upon the base of a number of examples taken both from literature on the subject and from the plastic arts. The overwhelming majority of depictions of this sort in Polish art from the period under discussion reveals an open or disguised Pomeranian theme. This is true both for literary works (such as Lilia Weneda by Juliusz Słowacki and Stara Baśń by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski) and plastic works. The reason for this state of things is the fact that certain cultural phenomena useful for the construction of a „prehistorical” Polish tradition, such as the traditions of the pagan deity Swiatowit in Rugen or the supposed Slav runes which were to have appeared under the impact of Scandinavia, could be found only in the widely comprehended region of Pomerania. The „Pomeranian” atmosphere permeated also series of illustrations made at the turn of the 1870s by Michał Elwiro Andriolli to both of the above mentioned literary works. The theoretical reflections of Joachim Lelewel and J.I.Kraszewski on the statue of Swiatowit in Zbrucz and some of the graphic compositions by Marian Wawrzyniecki (1863-1943) which served as their plastic illustration, comprise an important element for the issue mentioned in the article. This „northern” atmosphere can be discovered in three successive graphic series on Slav ancient history by Stanisław Jakubowski (1885-1964) executed in the 1920s and 1930s; here, we find both „reconstructive” motifs of ancient Slav architecture as well as fantastic figures of Slav deities. This particular trend in Polish art ended with the second world war and there are no adequate post-war counterparts.
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The article presents a program o f tasks set for the Centre which is a continuation o f activities o f the Office for Research and D o cumentation o f Historic Monuments in the voivodship o f Gdańsk. The program goes in three directions : — spatial scope covering cultural landscape, town- and rural- -planning and green planting, — architecture and building as well as technical constructions, — movable monuments. The fundamental task o f the Centre is to protect cultural landscape, i.e. historic land as a basic component o f ,,the tradition of the place” . First studies in this field were undertaken in 1978. They were made use o f in working out conservation guide lines for the plan o f a local spatial development in the Gdansk voivodship till 1995. The area o f historic cultural landscape covers 30 per cent o f the voivodship. Still, this form o f spatial cultural heritage till the seventies had been left outside interests o f the conservatory profession. Documentation and research works as well as recording and legislative operations carried out in the Centre will serve as a scientific- research background in all conservation works. Tasks set in this field are as follows : — With respect to the studies on the area o f historic cultural landscape there exists a necessity to undertake comprehensive, interdisciplinary studies, which shoula result in a map of a full stock o f examples o f spatial cultural landscape, along with a valorization o f cultural landscape. — Studies on urban complexes in the region, on medieval prelocation towns in particular, urban settlements founded at the end o f the 19th century and in the 1st half o f the 20th cent. Of particular importance is the emphasis put on problems o f preserving an endangered integrity o f the historic centre o f Gdańsk within present fortifications. — Studies will be carried out on the protection o f rural complexes perceiving their chance o f survival in enclaves o f cultural landscape parks. — The studies will also include parks and gardens, avenues and cemeteries. — The register o f building and architecture will be made complete ; records to be made up and legislative tasks carried out at regularly ; opinions, historic characteristics, scientific and conservatory documentation will — in the first place — be prepared for buildings meant for social use. — Research works in the field o f movable historic monuments will be aimed at a full recognition o f their stock. Buildings will also be examined with regard to describing materials, techniques and the condition o f their preservation in view o f conservatory needs. — The main task o f Documentation Section will be to create a central catalogue covering collections o f all archival materials concerning fields o f interest and also to prepare a system o f informative transformation o f the data. „Teka Gdańska” will continue to appear. — We shall also be interested in cooperation with abroad in the field o f our statutory activities, with similar organizations in towns which are on close friendly terms with Gdańsk and especially with Leningrad. — The above activities are to serve a full recognition o f cultural circles, as this the base o f the only proper protection and shaping o f the human environment.
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A guideline for activities in the field of the protection and schaping of cultural life in Gdańsk voivodship was provided by the resolution o f the plenary session o f the Voivodship Committee of the P.Z.P.R. (the Polish United Workers’ Party). The session was held in 1972 and it concerned the main trends for the development of culture in Gdańsk voivodship until the year o f 1980. When executing a work program adopted at the session there arose a conception to set up the Gdańsk Centre for the Protection of Cultural Values as a conservation body o f scientific and research nature. The idea was brought into life in June 1975 on the foundations of the Office for the Research and Documentation o f Historic Monuments in Gdańsk voivodship, in existence since 1970. The newly-opened Centre found its seat in a historic Turret of Anchorers’ (Baszta Kotwiczników). In future the seat will be moved to the granary of „Mały and Duży Groddeck” at Chmielna street. As the guidelines for its work the Gdańsk Centre for the Protection o f Cultural Values has adopted two programs. The program minimum assumes a full recording of monuments in Gdańsk voivodship. A starting point for this program was a very long experience and output o f the people and organizations involved in the problem. The program maximum envisaged the expansion of the earlier program with research and experimental studies aimed at an overall elaboration of historic monuments conceived, in the broad sense, as „cultural values”. According to the definition adopted temporarily by the research team o f the Centre, a cultural value is a set of objects that have a definite value, function, date o f the origin, style and that are the product o f human wilful activities in a creative process. The cultural value is an integral part of both universal culture and of the culture of a specific community and proves its development at a given historical stage. The „value” conceived in that sense is a testimony to the history o f the nation and has a great cognitive value for present generations. Being a genuine reflection o f the social existence, its civilisation and ideology, the cultural value is a factor affecting, i.a., the awareness o f a contemporary man, for whom the knowledge of manifestations o f culture in the past helps to get to know and to comprehend the present age. The notion of „cultural value” is inseparably linked with two other concepts, namely „cultural heritage” (i.e. cultural legacy of the bygone society) and „cultural environment”. The latter concept denotes groups o f people producing cultural values and also places in which the value is created and with which it is inseparably connected. And it is that second aspect o f the problem, conceived in the broadest sense, that makes the focus o f interests and research works carried out by the Gdańsk Centre for the Protection of Cultural Values. Hence, the term „cultural environment” covered landscape including all natural and man-made elements. The following sections have already been set up for the full execution of the adopted programs: the Team of the Monuments Research and Documentation Workshop, the Team o f the Conservation Workshop for Works o f Art, Documentation Department, Servicing Workshops, Independent Post for Building and Investment, Independent Post for Defence and Protection of Historic Monuments as well as Finance and Administration and Economic Department. The departments group experts in different fields, to mention only architects, art and architecture historians, engineers. They also maintain a close contact with research workers and cultural organizations in the Baltic Coast and in the country.
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