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Preserved on Glass. The Image of Vernacular Residential Architecture in Western Pomerania in the Light of the Ethnographic Collection of Lantern Slides of the National Museum in Szczecin

Summary/Abstract: The Department of Ethnography of Pomerania at the National Museum in Szczecin houses a collection of nearly 100 pre-1945 glass lantern slides depicting rural buildings, building plans, village plans, and house interiors from the areas of Western Pomerania that are now within the borders of the Republic of Poland. Among these, the most numerous group by far are lantern slides with field photographs showing buildings seen from the outside. The largest number of these come from the now-vanished fishing village of Kępa. The houses of Kępa were an example of Low German houses (called Niedersachsenhaus), which reached Western Pomerania in the 17th and 18th centuries with settlers from Northern Germany and which, in various variants, appeared in both fishing and agricultural farmsteads. The collection also includes a lantern slide with a photograph of a so-called Pyrzyce house. This is a large, half-timbered, narrow-fronted building with a so-called “black kitchen”. As the name suggests, this type of house was found in the vicinity of Pyrzyce. The collection also includes a considerable number of photographs of enclosed farmsteads with a characteristic gatehouse and courtyards built around a square (so-called Vierkamthof). In the article, based on the lantern slides and literature on the subject, the most characteristic types of farmsteads that occurred in Western Pomerania are indicated and discussed. The unique collection belonging to the National Museum in Szczecin can also serve as a starting point for further research on vernacular residential architecture in this area.

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