Prospects for inscribing certain elements of the cultural landscape of Szczecin as a Polish listed monument

Zbigniew Władysław Paszkowski

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Szczecin University of Technology/ZUT (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7506-0185

Jakub Ignacy Gołębiewski

Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (Poland)

Izabela Kozłowska

West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-110X

Abstract

This article is an attempt to pay attention to the rich heritage of the capital of Western Pomerania and to contribute to the discussion on the need to raise the monument’s history of its most valuable elements. The cultural landscape of Szczecin, which is a multicultural heritage of the historic Pomerania cultural area, is, by virtue of its origin, a carrier of original, authentic values that are absent in other Polish cities and regions.
According to the authors it is possible to distinguish of three areas, that together reflect the groundbreaking process of spatial development in the history of the city, having authenticity and originality in the country. The first part of the entry should include the historic urban layout of Szczecin’s Śródmieście (Downtown) at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century with the form of star and triangular development quarters, as well as urban and architectural and landscape complexes, which are important components of it: Wały Chrobrego (Hakenterrasse), Jasne Błonia (Quistorpaue) and Cmentarz Centralny (Hauptfriedhof).
The spatial and aesthetic qualities, the historical significance and the uniqueness of the particular elements of the aforementioned teams predestine them in our opinion to be included in the list of Historical Monuments.

Keywords:

Szczecin, Historic Monuments, Downtown, Wały Chrobrego, Jasne Błonia, Central Cemetery