Object structure
Title:

„Grüsse aus Wronke” : Zakład Karny we Wronkach jako miastotwórcza infrastruktura państwowa

Subtitle:

Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta : przestrzeń publiczna w miastach ziem polskich w "długim" dziewiętnastym wieku

Creator:

Ackermann, Felix

Contributor:

Łupienko, Aleksander (1980– ) : Redaktor ; Zabłocka-Kos, Agnieszka (1957– ) : Redaktor ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2019

Description:

s. 141-161 : il. (w tym kolorowe) ; 24 cm ; Abstrakt w języku angielskim.

Type of object:

Książka/Rozdział

Subject and Keywords:

Miasta -- Polska -- 19 w. [KABA] ; Miasta -- Polska -- 1900-1945 [KABA] ; Architektura i społeczeństwo -- Polska -- 19 w. [KABA] ; Architektura i społeczeństwo -- Polska -- 1900-1945 [KABA] ; Urbanistyka -- Polska -- Wielkopolska (region) [KABA] ; urbanistyka - Polska - Wronki - historia ; Zakład Karny (Wronki) - historia ; Więzienia -- Polska -- 19 w. [KABA] ; Więzienia -- Prusy -- 19 w. [KABA] ; Wronki (Polska) -- historia [KABA]

Abstract:

This article shows that prisons are part of the urban fabric. Even if they are surrounded by walls and physically limited in their access, they are part of a dense web of communication between those inhabitants who live in town and those who are incarcerated. As the first argument, the author points to the various forms of everyday exchange between the prison and the city: food, work, information and personnel. In the second argument, the authors notes the impact of large-scale urban infrastructures such as the central prison for the Prussian district of Poznań for the further development of the small city of Wronki. As opposed to larger Polish cities such as Poznań, Warsaw and Toruń, the city did not grow to such an extent, to fully include the prison area. In any case, the Wronki prison, which opened in 1894, became a modernizing force within the urban structure of the town, partly because of the houses dedicated to the guards and located outside the prison walls, partly because of technical solutions such as a new water pressure tower which created a highly visible new visual axis between the old part of Wronki and the prison area. The new town hall, erected in 1910 next to the prison, shows that a prison was also perceived in the earlier twentieth century as a public space. The article argues that it was not only a infrastructure for incarceration by the state authorities, but a representation of the state itself. The architectural surface, the complex inner structure, and the multifunctional purpose of the ensemble were supposed to represent the modern character of the Prussian state. As the same was true for the newly reformed independent Polish state after 1918, the prison was easily adopted by the Polish prison administrative body after the end of WWI.

Start page:

141

End page:

161

Resource type:

Tekst

Detailed Resource Type:

Rozdział

Resource Identifier:

978-83-65880-53-6

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. II.14682 ; IH PAN, sygn. II.14681 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Licencja Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa-Bez utworów zależnych 4.0

Terms of use:

Zasób chroniony prawem autorskim. [CC BY-ND 4.0 Międzynarodowe] Korzystanie dozwolone zgodnie z licencją Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa-Bez utworów zależnych 4.0, której pełne postanowienia dostępne są pod adresem: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Original in:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii PAN

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