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DOI Artikel:Litwin, Barbara: Rozwój przestrzenny miasta Chełma w okresie międzywojennym - historia powstania "Nowego Miasta"
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.37083#0078
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BARBARA LITWIN
THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHEŁM IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD
- THE H1STORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF “NEW TOWN”
S u m m a r y
After the First World War Chełm was an abandoned and destroyed town. It had gone
through similar vicissitudes as many towns and smali towns of the foriner Russian partition.
In the inter-war period Chełm was the seat of local administration and a housing estate with
a new urban structure was built there, the facts that considerably affected the economic
development of the town in the inter-war period. In the years of 1928-1939 a big investment
was carried out in Chełm, the urban plan called “New Town”. This paper discusses the history
and construction of the railway housing estate in Chełm, the largest investment of the inter-war
period in eastern Poland. Today it has been written in the register of monuments as an interest
architectonic urban planning. The backdrop has been outlined mainly on the basis of press
articles. They show how local communities from Chełm and its authorities was committed
during the construction. The historical part of the paper shows the rank and grand scalę of the
new initiative. The conception and plan of urban planning are presented on the basis of the
design of the “Head Office” of 1926 whose authors were the architects Adam Kuncewicz and
Adam Paprocki. The blueprint of the construction is a starting point for the analysis and
evaluation of architectonic and urban planning values. The paper includes also the third
architect Henryk Gay who designed the main building for administration.
The text of the paper outlines the character of urban planning and describes particular types
of buildings, draws the attributes of national style, and in particular marks the presuppositions
of manor style. It is an attempt to explain the idea of the town-garden in Pol i sh urban planning
and to transplant it onto eastern territories. The urban and architectonic design that was carried
out in Chełm is an interesting example of the national style (manor style) in its approach to
towns-gardens.
Translated by Jan Kłos
Słowa kluczowe: Chełm, dzielnica „Nowe Miasto”, architektura i urbanistyka,
XX-lecie międzywojenne.
Key words: Chełm, “New Town” housing estate, architecture and urban planning,
twenty years in the inter-war period.
BARBARA LITWIN
THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHEŁM IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD
- THE H1STORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF “NEW TOWN”
S u m m a r y
After the First World War Chełm was an abandoned and destroyed town. It had gone
through similar vicissitudes as many towns and smali towns of the foriner Russian partition.
In the inter-war period Chełm was the seat of local administration and a housing estate with
a new urban structure was built there, the facts that considerably affected the economic
development of the town in the inter-war period. In the years of 1928-1939 a big investment
was carried out in Chełm, the urban plan called “New Town”. This paper discusses the history
and construction of the railway housing estate in Chełm, the largest investment of the inter-war
period in eastern Poland. Today it has been written in the register of monuments as an interest
architectonic urban planning. The backdrop has been outlined mainly on the basis of press
articles. They show how local communities from Chełm and its authorities was committed
during the construction. The historical part of the paper shows the rank and grand scalę of the
new initiative. The conception and plan of urban planning are presented on the basis of the
design of the “Head Office” of 1926 whose authors were the architects Adam Kuncewicz and
Adam Paprocki. The blueprint of the construction is a starting point for the analysis and
evaluation of architectonic and urban planning values. The paper includes also the third
architect Henryk Gay who designed the main building for administration.
The text of the paper outlines the character of urban planning and describes particular types
of buildings, draws the attributes of national style, and in particular marks the presuppositions
of manor style. It is an attempt to explain the idea of the town-garden in Pol i sh urban planning
and to transplant it onto eastern territories. The urban and architectonic design that was carried
out in Chełm is an interesting example of the national style (manor style) in its approach to
towns-gardens.
Translated by Jan Kłos
Słowa kluczowe: Chełm, dzielnica „Nowe Miasto”, architektura i urbanistyka,
XX-lecie międzywojenne.
Key words: Chełm, “New Town” housing estate, architecture and urban planning,
twenty years in the inter-war period.