Urban cultural heritage – current conservation problems : the case of Skrzydlna / Dominika Kuśnierz-Krupa // W: Protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage – contemporary development directions ... więcej

Urban cultural heritage – current conservation problems : the case of Skrzydlna / Dominika Kuśnierz-Krupa // W: Protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage – contemporary development directions / sci. ed. Piotr Dobosz [et al.]. – Kraków : AT Wydawnictwo, 2020. – Pamięć USB. – S. 67-77 : fot., mapy. – Bibliogr. s. 75-77, Summ. – ISBN 978-83-66445-16-1

At present, Skrzydlna is a village in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in Limanowa County, in the municipality of Dobra. It is a small settlement, whose years of prosperity and glory are long past. Apart ... więcej

At present, Skrzydlna is a village in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in Limanowa County, in the municipality of Dobra. It is a small settlement, whose years of prosperity and glory are long past. Apart from the historic parish church of St Nicholas, the locality also features highly interesting relics of a medieval urban layout which are currently under no form of conservation. This layout was most probably delineated during the reign of king Władysław II Jagiełło, who permitted the founding of the town of Skrzydlna in place of a village that had existed at the site since at least the first quarter of the 14th century. Unfortunately, this is the only mention of the town’s founding that has so far been found, while the founding itself was ultimately not fully carried out for reasons so far unknown. This is not the only case of this type on the territory of historic Lesser Poland. Other instances of the unsuccessful founding of a town applied to places such as, among others, Lipowiec, Klasztor or Zygmuntowo. The medieval urban layout in question, which is associated with the unsuccessful founding of Skrzydlna, has survived to our times in a relic form. As it has already been mentioned, it is not under any form of statutory conservation. Here one should ask the question whether it should be? It is not as legible or well-preserved as the urban layouts of other historic medieval towns in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, and whose applications for inscription in the heritage sites register were being processed during the time of the writing of this paper (Skawina, Nowy Targ, Krościenko nad Dunajcem). The paper analyses the problem of the potential for placing the town in question under conservation on the basis of the currently applicable Monument Protection and Preservation Act. This paper argues in favour of a need to amend the currently applicable Monument Protection and Preservation Act of July 23rd 2003 in terms of extending the forms of monument conservation, primarily in terms of protecting Polish cities and towns.