Vernacular architecture and traditional rural landscape in new socio-economic realities - a case study from Central Poland

Gorączko Marcin () and Gorączko Aleksandra ()
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Gorączko Marcin: University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1Department of Sanitary and Hydro-Engineering
Gorączko Aleksandra: University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Kaliskiego 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland, Geotechnical Department

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2015, vol. 30, issue 30, 43-58

Abstract: The article presents the results of the research survey of the old rural constructions in the Koło Basin (Central Poland) and its closest vicinity, conducted by the authors in the period 2011-2013. From the beginning of the 19th century until the late 1960s, the population of that region tended to use for construction limestone, instead of wood which for centuries was the most common building material on Polish lowlands. Using the local deposits of limestone, excavated near Rożaniatow village, various structures were built, with the parts of the building most endangered by degradation made of ceramic bricks (for corners and window/door frames) or glacial erratics (for wall base), thereby forming structures with specific architectural and aesthetic features, unique to that region. The survey was conducted in 165 villages of the region, cataloguing more than 2,000 such structures - residential buildings, farm facilities, industrial buildings. Many of these buildings display a similar elevation style of same-coloured stones, making them one of the most specific elements of the landscape.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/bog-2015-0034

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