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Public space – citizens’ space : a two-voice of the old palace and Wilhelm Avenue in Poznań in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ; Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta : przestrzeń publiczna w miastach ziem polskich w "długim" dziewiętnastym wieku ; Zabór pruski/niemiecki i prowincja śląska
Creator: Contributor:Łupienko, Aleksander (1980– ) : Editor ; Zabłocka-Kos, Agnieszka (1957– ) : Editor ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla
Publisher: Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Description:p. 403-424 : ill. (some color) ; 24 cm ; Abstract in English
Type of object: Subject and Keywords:cities and towns - Poland - history - 19th c. ; cities and towns - Poland - history - 1900-1945 ; architecture and society - Poland - history - 19th c. ; architecture and society - Poland - history - 1900-1945 ; architecture and society - Poland - Poznań ; architecture - Poland - Poznań - history - 19th century ; architecture - Poland - Poznań - history - 20th century ; urban planning - Poland - Poznań - history ; urban planning - social aspects - Poland - Poznań ; Wolności Square (Poznań, Poland) ; Marcinkowskiego Avenue (Poland, Poznań) ; significance of urban space ; political game
Abstract:The current Wolności Square and Marcinkowskiego Street were planned in the early nineteenth century for a new concept of the city, after Poznań had been annexed to Prussia in the partition of Poland. Although the planned form of this coupled urbanistic complex has survived to this day, the evolution of architectural frames and monument layouts shifted its centres of gravity. Official buildings, their stylistic forms, compositional relations and their spatial frames were becoming an element of a political game, often with additional subliminal meanings. This space was characterised by variable dynamics depending on the current distribution of political forces: at the time of the partitions it was determined by the Polish-German nationality conflict, and deepened by a rivalry between civic and state initiatives which was disclosed through specific stylistic forms and localities of buildings and monuments. In the Second Polish Republic, there was a symbolic clearing of the square through the demolition of monuments and replacement of pavements, which levelled the previous double-height space. It could be assumed that the original antagonism became a positive founding element of the palace and avenue as the “heart of the city”, which is indicated by the plans of these transformations from 1905 and the Second World War. This raises the question whether the disappearance of this tension today can be – apart from other, more decisive factors – one of the reasons why this space was abandoned by the city’s inhabitants.
Start page: End page: Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Resource Identifier: Source:IH PAN, call no. II.14682 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14681 Podr. ; click here to follow the link
Language: Language of abstract: Rights:Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license
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Digitizing institution:Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Original in:Library of the Institute of History PAS
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