Pamięć o Kresach Wschodnich w nazewnictwie miejskim Opola
The memory about the Eastern Borderlands in the urban naming conventions of Opole

Summary/Abstract: The article presents and discusses the names of Opole city objects that refer back to the Eastern Borderlands, both those from the first years after the war and the current ones connected to the restoration of the eastern “memory”. As a result of the population changes that occurred in Opole in 1945, almost fifty percent of the city dwellers were people from the Polish territories annexed by the Soviet Union. The Opole new dwellers expected in the urban area not only new names of Polish sound and tradition, but also the names that would be close and known to them; the names which would familiarise the new space, express the longing, preserve the memory of the lost homeland and inform about their origin. Consequently, in the Opole urban space there appeared the names eating places, sports clubs, companies and streets that directly referred back to the names of city and town from which the borderlanders came (e.g. such streets as Lwowska, Samborzanka, Stryjanka, ZakątekWileński), which acted as the continuations of the ones that could be found in the pre-war urban naming conventions of Lviv and other cities (Pohulanka, Foto Danusia), and which commemorated people and events connected to the Eastern Borderlands (the following streets: Chodźki, Zaleskiego, Chocimska).

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