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Dzieje szybu Daniłowicza

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The Daniłowicz shaft was deepened in the years 1635-42. The excavation drilling was completed at a time when the function of mine manager was held by Jan Mikołaj Daniłowicz, the Grand Treasurer of the Crown. Over 230 years it reached only to level 1 (64 m deep). In the second half of the nineteenth century it was deepened in stages to level 5 and in 1929 to level 6 (240.6 m deep). Throughout its history, the shaft was repeatedly modernized and served a variety of functions. For more than 200 years, it was used to draw large amounts of salt, mainly located in the solid deposit. As a  result of the work carried out with this shaft, most splendid chambers of the current tourist route and the most beautiful excavations of the underground exhibition of Wieliczka Cracow Saltworks Museum were created. Since the eighteenth century it also served the growing tourist traffic. After it was deepened and thoroughly modernized in the 1970s, it had only communication functions, serving both the crew and tourists. Since the beginning of the 1960s, its sole task is to serve the visitors of the Wieliczka mine. After the installation of air-conditioning in 1996 and a modern hoist (years 2011-12), every year it provides great comfort and safety to over one million tourists.
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The paper focuses on reconstruction of changes occurring on the surface in the vicinity of the Wieliczka’s Daniłowicz Shaft from the beginning of its operation in the 17th century until the present times. It shows changes in the vicinity of the facility constituting, at the present moment, the most recognizable part of the above-ground infrastructure of the mine and the main place where tourist trac in Wieliczka is concentrated. It presents facilities which exist in the area between Daniłowicza Street (from the east) and Matejki Street and Kinga’s shaft headroom (from the west) and within the borders of plots belonging to the Wieliczka Salt Mine and Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka. It mentions a number of shaft-adjoining buildings, residential houses, an employee bathhouse (the so-called Saltworks Bathhouse), public toilets, green areas, landscape architecture, including the decorative fence from the side of Daniłowicza Street. The issue of foundation and development (since 1870) of the present-day Park of St. Kinga was brought to attention in the article. This landscape-type park, established by the saltworks company as a specic form of a patronage project, harmoniously combined various production, transport, residential and social functions. Open to the public, it has evolved towards a spa park model in relation to intense tourist trac and sanatorium activities. The article touches upon the contemporary conservation problems related to the complex of above-ground facilities, which should be carefully protected as integral elements of the cultural heritage of the historical salt mine in Wieliczka. Protection of cultural landscape of this type is a great challenge – in the past, several historical buildings were demolished and in place of the disassembled authentic building of the so-called Saltworks Bathhouse, a new structure was erected for hotel purposes, making references to the picturesque forms of architecture from the beginning of the 20th century.
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