Unobvious Heritage: Issues of the Conservation of Dąbrowa Tarnowska’s Urban Layout
Unobvious Heritage: Issues of the Conservation of Dąbrowa Tarnowska’s Urban Layout

Author(s): Dominika Kuśnierz-Krupa
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Museology & Heritage Studies, Library and Information Science, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: historical heritage; historical town; Dąbrowa Tarnowska; heritage conservation
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the issues of the conservation of Dąbrowa Tarnowska’s urban layout. The town is located in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, around 15 km to the north of the city of Tarnow, Poland. It is a relatively small town, mostly forgotten, and sports a wellpreserved early-modern-period urban structure. The paper outlines the history and genesis of the town’s founding. It also characterises its urban layout, accounting for the state of preservation of its structure and current conservation measures. The conclusions section highlights the need to enter Dąbrowa Tarnowska’s urban layout into the register of historical monuments of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship as it is a case of a well-defined orthogonal structure planned towards the end of the seventeenth century following period regulations, which makes it an element of a historical period’s heritage and gives it historical value.

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