Postawy właścicieli górniczych wież wyciągowych-elementu krajobrazu kulturowego Konurbacji Górnośląskiej

Mining headframes-a part of the cultural landscape of the Upper Silesian urban area - and the attitudes of their owners towards these objects

Summary: the awareness of the value and necessity of preservation of these industrial monuments is not common, what results in different attitudes of their owners towards this kind of cultural heritage. According to the publication of A. Niezabitowski (1997) there are four possible attitudes of people towards cultural heritage, including industrial monuments: arrogance, passive tolerance, acceptance and creative continuation. Only the first three of them are analysed in this paper, because in the opinion of the author in the area of research there is Mining headframes, also known as winding towers, are the most characteristic part of the cultural landscape of Upper Silesian urban area. As a result of mining industry restructuring after 1989 a lot of them lost their original function, what made them useless for the mining companies and consequently many of them were pulled down. Unfortunately no winding tower, which could be definitely regarded as an example of the creative continuation. Apart from giving the examples of the specified attitudes towards industrial heritage, the author tried to explain the reasons of these phenomena. Three factors were taken into consideration in each example: the localisation of the object, the characteristics of its surroundings and the issues related to the ownership of the property. The analysis proved that the problems connected with the ownership had strong impact on the attitude towards the winding towers, whereas the localisation and the surroundings were not so important.

Słowa kluczowe: krajobraz kulturowy, zabytki przemysłu i techniki, Konurbacja Górnośląska, ochrona dziedzictwa kulturowego, restrukturyzacja górnictwa.

Słowa kluczowe (w języku angielskim): cultural landscape, industrial monuments, Upper Silesian urban area, preservation of cultural heritage, mining industry restructuring

Krąż P., Hibner J., Koj J., Balon J., 2013, Współczesne problemy i kierunki badawcze w geografii, IGiGP UJ, Kraków, s. 101-109.

Instytut Geografii i Gospodarki Przestrzennej UJ

ISBN 78-83-88424-93-9

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