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The historical landscape reveals diverse social, economic, political transformations that create an identity of place, one which should be protected for future generations. Manor and park estates have been and continue to be valuable parts of cultural heritage and a distinguishing feature of the rural landscape in Europe. Since 1945, however, they have often failed to resist negative changes, especially in Eastern Europe where, after the Second World War, countries adopted the socialist system, which abolished private property and placed many historical buildings under the management of state institutions for several decades. In this context, it is important to study their current state of preservation. This study analyzes the condition of manor and park estates in Western Pomerania, Poland, that became the property of State Agricultural Farms (PGRs) after the Second World War. For this purpose, it was necessary to determine the extent of their transformation brought about by the State Agricultural Farms from 1949–1991, as well as changes that have occurred in the past 30 years. A qualitative method was used to assess the preservation of historical manor and park estates and to classify them according to their degree of preservation. The results showed that 42% of the estates surveyed have had their original form and spatial composition transformed, and their preservation status is assessed as moderate. Nearly 30% are in poor condition, which is hindering their full revitalization and the restoration of cultural and natural values. Only 28% of manor and park estates are maintained in a very good state. It is a matter of concern that the decline of these estates has been continuous and that restoration efforts have been limited. However, by assessing the current state of preservation, we can identify the measures necessary to stop further deterioration and preserve the cultural heritage of the region. It is clear that the preservation of these estates is essential to maintaining the identity of Western Pomerania. Manor and park estates are historical monuments associated with the people who once lived there. They must be protected to promote sustainable development and preserve a common European cultural heritage for future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1945, along with the western territories, Poland incorporated foreign heritage into its borders, including numerous war memorials commemorating the fallen inhabitants of these lands during the First World War. Some of those memorials were demolished, some were buried, others were modified to varied degrees and even adapted to new demands through sacralisation, while some - standing on the periphery - have survived largely untouched to this day. Their fate was similar to other objects that were part of the post-German heritage. The aim of this article is to present the post-war life of the war memorial from Lisie Pole (municipality of Chojna, West Pomeranian Voivodeship) based on surviving archival documents. The monument, which stood near the church in the centre of the village, was disassembled and the crowning sculpture now sits on the stone foot of a Gotland medieval baptismal font, most likely originating from the 13th century. The instance recounted here is an interesting example of the fate of foreign uncomfortable cultural heritage found in the western territories, as well as the new community's attitude towards it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this article is to present the latest publications and social initiatives related to Western Pomerania. The 21st century has witnessed the activities that testify to the communal need to revise images of the past. The German cultural heritage has been portrayed anew in various types of publications: novels (Niebko by Brygida HelbigMischewski), collections of reportage (Morze i ziemia, ed. Andrzej Klim and Cezary Łazarewicz), and photographic essays (Nieswojość, ed. Agata Pankiewicz and Marcin Przybyłko). These texts prove significant transformations in the sphere of shared memory, affecting at the same time the transformation of collective and individual identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper outlines the impact of the crusade ideas in Western Pomerania from the twelfth to the end of the first quarter of the thirteenth century, showing how it affected the region in three essential stages. The Western Pomeranians – attached to a traditional, native belief system – first encountered the crusade movement in the first half of the twelfth century, initially as its victims. Subsequently, the crusade ideas spread among the Western Pomeranian knights in the second half of the twelfth century as an element of the new, Christian culture. In the third stage, the region’s inhabitants became directly involved in the Fifth Crusade. In keeping with the historical methodology, the study is an attempt at a new, more comprehensive approach to the propagation of the crusade ideas in Western Pomerania and its effect on the locals. Also, the findings demonstrate that further research into the issue would be highly recommended.

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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of the work is a reconstruction of environmental conditions in the Lower Oder River Valley in the early Middle Ages with use multi-proxy research. This was considered in terms of natural determinants of the development of hydrogenic habitats in the estuary section of a large lowland river, but at the beginning of a headland of natural morainic plateau known as Castle Hill in Szczecin. In a relatively small area, three different types of geochemical landscapes were distinguished that had specific functions in matter cycles, including the water cycle. The article mainly presents the results of geochemical studies for a series of biogenic deposits separated by a series of lacustrine sediments with a large admixture of mineral material. An attempt was also made to determine subfossil animal remains in the sediments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 1990, two Holstein belt hooks were found in the stronghold rampart in Długie, Stargard district, site 1. They are of Type B by H. Hingst which is dated to Jastorf IIa and IIb. The connection of the object with known in the literature cemetery in Długie, site 3, is unclear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a stray find of a Neolithic square axe from Godziszewo, Łobez district. The general shape of the artefact suggests Middle Neolithic origin, possibly related to the Globular Amphora culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a flint square axe found in a secondary context in the woodland area of Bukowe Hills (Wzgórza Bukowe). The tool was made by a skilled craftsman related to the local settlement of the Funnel Beaker culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a stray find of a flint sickle insert discovered in 2021 in Zaborsko in the Pyrzyce Lowland (Nizina Pyrzycka). The surface of the artefact is covered with a sickle patina (or sickle gloss) and retouches suggesting an intense use and repairs. The object is associated with the Funnel Beaker culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the issue of money substitutes in Szczecin (Province of Pomerania) during the Hyperinflation in 1922–1923. It examines related legal problems and shows the position of the state authorities regarding the issue of money substitutes. In the paper, the archives of the presidium department of the Stettin Region stored in the State Archive were used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the spatial and functional arrangement of the Renaissance phase of the castle of the Order of St John in Słońsk based on written sources and iconography from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents preliminary results of the archaeological prospection of the former border track from the late Middle Ages and early modern period, located in the central part of Western Pomerania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 Of- fice, 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The municipal forests of Szczecin are among the most extensive areas of this kind in Poland. Altogether they cover an area of 2780 ha. A significant part of this forest area is characterised by very attractive landscape features is easily accessible from the centre of the city. Now that active recreation is a popular form of leisure, inhabitants of Szczecin frequently visit the surrounding forests. It is therefore necessary to identify the resources and assess the state of the tourism and recreation infrastructure. The article presents the current state of tourist and recreational reclamation of the municipal forests of Szczecin and detailed results of an inventory of the existing infrastructure held in 2017; the author analyses the strengths and weaknesses and recommends directions for possible changes. The findings indicate the infrastructure is unevenly distributed and concentrated in just a few forest areas and is inadequately suited to meet the current needs of Szczecin residents.

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This article discusses the latest archaeological research into the casting and marking of bronze three-legged cauldrons (Grapens) in the Baltic Sea Region. It offers a detailed analysis of production centres in Western Pomerania, which have not as of yet been the subject of interest of a wide circle of scholars, and presents the results of recent archaeological excavations in Stargard that revealed further workshops specializing in the production of cauldrons. Their functioning was associated with two Grapengiessers, Jochim and Jacob Ingerman, who were active in the first half of the 16th century. Moreover, the article also deals with the activity of other founders in relation to other centres in the Baltic Sea Region on the basis of historical sources and bells which have survived down to our times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article deals with issues related to the history of the relations between churches as institutions, and their individual clergymen, and the Nazi state. The source referred to in this article is the intimate journal of Minister Friedrich Onnasch (1881-1945), the superintendent of the Koszalin Church District and parish priest of Saint Mary's Church in Koszalin, murdered by Soviet troops in Barlinek in February 1945. A document written on a regular basis, never published, is a detailed account (though coded, due to censorship), showing the experience of the clerical office in a time of totalitarian oppression. It shows the situation in the Evangelical Church after 1933 and the commitment of Minister Friedrich Onnasch and others, among them Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), associated with Pomerania, in the movement of the Confessing Church. It explores the areas of Christian religion in its Evangelical topography, limited to the space of the former Prussian province of Pommern (Provinz Pommern) and Western Pomerania after 1945. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the socio-demographic situation of Western Pomerania following Poland's accession to the EU in 2004. Western Pomerania faced a number of challenges: a brain drain, a rapidly ageing society and a shortage of workers. The region's demographic situation was particularly serious compared to Poland's other regions. However, Western Pomerania is now profiting from an inflow of migrants, especially from Ukraine, which is boosting the region's economy. The article describes the measures undertaken on the local and regional level to promote the inflow of economic migrants and to integrate them into the local society. The measures described are helping to form a broader regional strategy to tackle the challenges of people leaving the region, the ageing population and a departing workforce. The article argues that if the proper support for newcomers is provided, migration could become a positive factor for the local economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text deals with animal remains of two neighboring settlement sites of the pre-Roman Iron Age near GroßLuckow, a small village in northeast Germany. Both sites were discovered and partially excavated ahead of motorway construction from 1997 to 1999. The site of GroßLuckow 2 consists of dwelling houses and storage buildings as well as various forms of technical facilities, the site of GroßLuckow 3 only consists of various technical remains. The predominantly ceramic material of both places belongs to the pre-Roman Iron Age and is dated by four radiocarbon dates into the 4th to 1st Century BC. From the findings of the sites GroßLuckow 2 and 3, a total of more than 2000 animal bone fragments with a total weight of not quite 24,000 g are taken. Only a very small proportion comes from two pits of the site GroßLuckow 3. The majority of the faunal remains are slaughter- and foodstuffs, along with some bone artifacts as well as several animal deposits. Of particular importance are the domestic pig, followed by sheep and goat, cattle and horse. Dog and chicken are also represented in small quantities. Hunting seems to have played a subordinate role in nutrition. Wild animals are represented mainly in wild boar, red deer and aurochs. Small proportions of birds and fish are also present. A comparison of the animal bone material of GroßLuckow with further faunal materials is made difficult by the desolate research and publication status to animal bone finds from settlements of the pre-Roman Iron Age of the north German federal states. There is a direct connection with the equally small number of investigated and presented settlements of this time.

Piotr Zaremba (1910–1993) was the first post-war president of Szczecin, an internationally renowned urban planner and planner, and the author of fascinating memories of the first post-war years. He was also the winner of several plebiscites, a specific game crowning the end of the previous century. The verdict of the participants was recognized as “Szczecin of the century” and “Pomerania of the century”. It is therefore astonishing that there is no extensive biography of the former rector of the Szczecin University of Technology and one of the co-founders of the University of Szczecin, although it would have been a study that would have given contemporary people considerable knowledge about the important problems of 20th century history. Not only regional, but also national and European history. By discussing selected threads: family, urban and political, the author of the article tries to show, on the one hand, the richness of source material connected with Piotr Zaremba’s biography and, on the other hand, the possibility of multi-faceted lighting of its individual fragments. He tries to multiply the questions more than to give final answers. For these to appear, an extensive biographical book is necessary. In the second part of the text, therefore, the aim of the text is to analyse the reasons why serious biographical reflection on Piotr Zaremba does not exist, despite the fact that he is an emblematic figure for Szczecin and Western Pomerania. The author also follows whether the case under examination is something exceptional for the West Pomeranian biography, characterising the state of biographical writing in relation to people relevant to the post-war history of the region. This seems to me to be a particularly justified question in a situation where biography – after years of neglect in this area – has for some time become an extremely popular genre of historical writing in Poland, giving historians the opportunity to go far beyond the circle set by academic circles with their message. The article is based on a wide range of archival queries, often referring to documentation that has not been in scientific circulation so far.

After the year 1990 in the Polish Armed Forces started the process of inheritance of the military traditions encompassing thousand years old history of the Polish Army. It was a grassroots process with great commitment from the military professionals in the army units, supported by the action of the specialized institutions of the Ministry of National Defence aimed at persuading this idea to the veteran associations or family members of the commanders, who were to become patrons of particular army formations. Efforts were made to assign the heritage to the formation of the same number and service profile. From 1946 in the Army didn’t exist the cavalry units, therefore the Department of Defence took actions so as to particular motorized regiments, later brigades and divisional reconnaissance battalions, assumed the traditions of this branch of service, so merited in the history of the Polish military. On the map of Western Pomerania particular position occupied at that time the garrison in Stargard Szczeciński, where were stationed units belonging to two different mechanized divisions. The article describes the process of tradition inheritance by the 6th Armoured Cavalry Brigade of the 12th Mechanized Division and the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion of the 2nd Mechanized Division, with addition of the phaleristic analysis.

The purpose of the article is presentation of an unknown collection of copies of the municipal seals Apparatus Sigillorum Pomeraniae et Rugiae Civitatum and an attempt to establish authorship, time, and circumstances of its origin. The work survived among the remnants of the so called Ostens Library, where it came in 1773. Brief notes made on its cover suggest that it originates from the collection of Matthäus Heinrich Liebherr. The analysis of the aesthetic of the executed copies allows a supposition that there were several drawers and the work could be completed by the successive owners. The content of the dorsal notes implies that the author used the seals from the collections of Pomeranian scholars belonging to the society Collectores Historiae et Juris Patrii. It is likely that the activity of this society inspired the compilation of the catalogue of the Pomeranian towns’ seals.

Fr. Józef Anczarski was born on February 18, 1912 in Poczapy near Zloczew (ukr. Zolochiv). He survived World War I, the interwar period and World War II in the East. In 1946 he was evacuated to the Western Territories to Wrocław, and from there he went to Gorzów Wielkopolski, where he served in the episcopal curia, and then he was directed by priest bishop to Trzebiatów and Świnoujście. Being one of the 100 priests of the Archdiocese of Lviv who came to the western outskirts of Poland, he wrote a beautiful chapter for priestly life – despite constant harassment by the authorities of People’s Poland – as a director, editor, priest, worshiper of the Mother of God, and above all a friend of priests. He died on June 23 2002 at the age of 90 and he was buried in the Świnoujście cemetery at ul. Karsiborska.

The article focuses on a previously unknown fragment of border located near the village of Ginawa, Węgorzyno commune, which is characterised by diverse marking indicating its long history. The border stones accompanied by glacial erratics are of special interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses procedures adopted by German authorities for persuading citizens to exchange gold coins for paper money. The information from the former archives of the Province of Pomerania Chief President was used in the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A hoard of medieval coins, mainly from Brandenburg and Pomerania, was discovered in 1933 in Gryfino (German: Greifenhagen). Some part of the deposit got dispersed, however, most of it was acquired for the collection of the then museum in Szczecin. During World War II the hoard was evacuated to the town of Mołtowo, Kołobrzeg district and disappeared. After the war 468 coins were recovered, which are now stored in the National Museum in Szczecin and the Museum in Koszalin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes results of the research on megalithic tombs located in the central River Rega basin, conducted in 2015--2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]