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Two Cieszyn collections: the Tschammer Library and the Szersznik Museum Kultura i sztuka
Two Cieszyn collections: the Tschammer Library and the Szersznik Museum
In Cieszyn two collectors, the Protestant lawyer Bogumił Rudolf Tschammer and the Catholic priest Leopold Jan Szersznik, bequeathed their book collections to the town. The first became the oldest historic Protestant library in Poland, the second, according to Wikipedia, the oldest public museum in the country.
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Bielsko-Biała as a town of cartoons: Bolek and Lolek, Reksio, Banialuka Kultura i sztuka
Bielsko-Biała as a town of cartoons: Bolek and Lolek, Reksio, Banialuka
Bielsko-Biała is the town of the Cartoon Film Studio, where Bolek and Lolek and Reksio were made. You can meet the cartoon heroes on monuments, see the history of the studio in the new animation centre, and next door is the Banialuka puppet theatre.
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The Wooden Architecture Trail in Silesia: churches with polychromes, shingles and soboty Kultura i sztuka
The Wooden Architecture Trail in Silesia: churches with polychromes, shingles and soboty
The Wooden Architecture Trail in the Silesian Voivodeship includes 93 historic sites and five loops. We pick the churches that best show how the region's wooden churches differ: in age, in the polychromes on the beams and in roofs with soboty.
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Wooden churches of the 20th century: modern places of worship built on a dodecagon plan, from prefabricated parts and from glued timber Kultura i sztuka
Wooden churches of the 20th century: modern places of worship built on a dodecagon plan, from prefabricated parts and from glued timber
Silesia's wooden churches are not only monuments from the 15th and 18th centuries. In the 20th century wood was chosen for fear of mining damage, for quick assembly or out of attachment to highland tradition. From the dodecagon in Zabrze to the glued beams in Bytom.
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The Janów Group: Amateur Painters from the Mining District of Janów Kultura i sztuka
The Janów Group: Amateur Painters from the Mining District of Janów
The Janów Group is a circle of amateur painters who from 1946 met at the Wieczorek mine in Janów. The article tells of Teofil Ociepka, Ewald Gawlik and Erwin Sówka, and of the places where their work can be seen today.
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Two painters from Istebna: Jan Wałach and the artists' colony at Bucznik Kultura i sztuka
Two painters from Istebna: Jan Wałach and the artists' colony at Bucznik
Two artists worked in Istebna at the same time, and both left museums and church polychromes behind. Jan Wałach was a graphic artist from Andziołówka, while Ludwik Konarzewski founded nearby Bucznik: a settlement with studios, a guesthouse and a chapel.
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From the Katowice Mine to the Culture Zone: the ICC, the Spodek and a City of Music Kultura i sztuka
From the Katowice Mine to the Culture Zone: the ICC, the Spodek and a City of Music
Between 2011 and 2015 a museum, the NOSPR headquarters and a congress centre were built on the site of the Katowice mine and a zinc smelter, next to the Spodek of 1971. The text is about the buildings of the Culture Zone and the idea behind them.
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Kazimierz Kutz and the Silesian Triptych: The Salt of the Black Earth, Pearl in the Crown, Beads of One Rosary Kultura i sztuka
Kazimierz Kutz and the Silesian Triptych: The Salt of the Black Earth, Pearl in the Crown, Beads of One Rosary
Three films by Kazimierz Kutz from 1969-1979 were shot among Katowice and Upper Silesian housing estates, mine buildings and familoks. The text is about the films, their film sets and the places that can still be found today.
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The Jesus Church in Cieszyn and the Treaty of Altranstädt Kultura i sztuka
The Jesus Church in Cieszyn and the Treaty of Altranstädt
The Jesus Church in Cieszyn was built after the Treaty of Altranstädt of 1707 as one of six churches of grace in Silesia. It is the only one that still serves Protestants today.
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Churches That Moved House: Wooden Churches Relocated to New Sites Kultura i sztuka
Churches That Moved House: Wooden Churches Relocated to New Sites
A wooden church can be dismantled and put together elsewhere. In Silesia this was done to save a monument, to give a church to a new housing estate, or to turn it into an open-air museum exhibit. Nine moves, from Katowice in 1938 to Mlaskawka in 1997.
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Katowice Modernism: the Drapacz Chmur, the Superjednostka and the Station with Chalices Kultura i sztuka
Katowice Modernism: the Drapacz Chmur, the Superjednostka and the Station with Chalices
From the steel Drapacz Chmur of 1934 to the concrete chalices of the former station, demolished in 2010-2011. The article takes you through the interwar Functionalism and postwar modernism of Katowice and shows what remains of them.
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Museums and Regional Rooms of the Beskid Three Villages: Istebna, Jaworzynka, Koniaków Kultura i sztuka
Museums and Regional Rooms of the Beskid Three Villages: Istebna, Jaworzynka, Koniaków
Istebna, Jaworzynka and Koniaków have small museums run in cottages, studios and family homes. From a smoke stove without a chimney to lace and the Istebna spruce: a guide to places that tell of the life of the Beskid highlanders.
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