Wartime destruction and its impact on the cultural landscape of Pomorskie Voivodeship in 1945 Cover Image

Zniszczenia wojenne i ich wpływ na krajobraz kulturowy województwa pomorskiego w 1945 roku
Wartime destruction and its impact on the cultural landscape of Pomorskie Voivodeship in 1945

Author(s): Remigiusz Ławniczak
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne
Keywords: German Occupation of Poland (1939–1945); World War II; war damage; cultural landscape; Pomeranian Voivodeship (1945–1950);

Summary/Abstract: Due to the German occupation ofPomerania and Kuyavia during World War IIand the German-Soviet warfare in 1945, buildings(residential, commercial, industrial, sacred) andelements of small architecture (commemorations,monuments) were destroyed. Th is article describesthe scale of destruction, considering the culturallandscape theory in the post-war PomeranianVoivodeship with its capital in Bydgoszcz in 1945.Th e buildings were reconstructed in many places,but the cultural landscape was changed forever insome areas.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 93-118
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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