Opis wybuchu wrocławskiej baszty prochowej w 1749 r. z kroniki konwentu reformatów jako przykład formy kształtowania pamięci wspólnoty o wydarzeniu
Description of the Gunpowder Tower explosion in 1749 from the Franciscan-Reformer’s chronicle as a way of the formation of collective memory

Summary/Abstract: The explosion of the powder magazine during the night of 20 to 21 June 1749 had been the most tragic event in the history of Wrocław. The outcome of that tragedy was several dozen of fatalities and more than three hundred people injured. The larger south-west part of the city was well-nigh totally destroyed. Among the ruins were also Franciscans as the building of their monastery was situated next to the powder magazine. The purpose of this monograph is to take a closer look at the report from that event covered in the said chronicle dated as of 175-1756. The presented description written right after that tragedy appears to be a perfect source for tracing the means and forms of shaping the community remembrance, the ways of commemoration of the essential events from the perspective of both the monastery and city. The above mentioned usefulness as a source manifests itself through the focus on selected aspects of that event and applied wording, evoking distant times, as well as constituting a comparative database for that tragedy in the history of the monastery.

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