Subtitle:

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

Contributor:

Łupienko, Aleksander (1980– ) : Editor ; Zabłocka-Kos, Agnieszka (1957– ) : Editor ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 403-424 : ill. (some color) ; 24 cm ; Abstract in English

Type of object:

Book/Chapter

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:

403

End page:

424

Detailed Resource Type:

Chapter

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:140650 ; 978-83-65880-53-6

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.14682 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14681 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Access:

Open