Presentation of non-existent city monuments: a study on marking medieval fortifications
Authors:
- E. Stachura
Abstract
The urban layout of many European cities was shaped in the Middle Ages. Cities first evolved within their walls and as they developed and expanded larger rings of fortifications were constructed, which overlapped the original defence systems. Medieval fortifications often followed the natural terrain in order to strengthen their defensive potential. While in many cities and towns, the city fortifications have survived only in part the course of the walls, location of city gates and towers can be determined by archaeological research. Tangible urban and architectural heritage forms the essential element of local identity and inspires the imagination of the residents and tourists. Tangible urban and architectural heritage forms an essential element of local identity and inspires the imagination of residents and tourists. The loss of an original plan form of a walled town circuit threatens the identity of the medieval precinct within the modern city while even only fragmentary traces of a medieval wall system enable recognition and understanding of the original urban layout, past buildings and landscapes. For this reason, even non-existent phantom buildings and their hidden underground remnants will bear testimony to the original layout and should be marked in the cityscape. The paper presents the case study of the City of Raciborz (Poland) founded in the Middle Ages. Primarily, the city fortifications system included a perimeter of defensive walls with nine towers and three city gates. Today only remnants of walls and one tower are evident. The location and appearance of two out of three gates are well documented also the underground remains have been preserved. This paper aims to study the possibility of marking and displaying the non-existent city gates. Concept projects will illustrate this study.
- Record ID
- CUT54ebf0ed139344ec8b2394d8368da133
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Pages
- 591-600
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; plany; rys.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 600; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.
- Book
- Amoêda Rogério, Rogério Amoêda Lira Sérgio, Sérgio Lira Pinheiro Cristina Cristina Pinheiro (eds.): HERITAGE 2020 : proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, 8-10 July 2020, Coimbra, Portugal, Green Lines Bookseries on Heritage Studies, no. 01, 2020, Barcelos, Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, ISBN 978-989-8734-45-7
- Keywords in English
- heritage, cityscape, medieval fortifications, city gates, non-existent monuments
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT54ebf0ed139344ec8b2394d8368da133/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT54ebf0ed139344ec8b2394d8368da133
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