2020 |
Myrda, Grzegorz; Szady, Bogumił; Ławrynowicz, Agnieszka Modeling and Presenting Incomplete and Uncertain Data on Historical Settlement Units Journal Article In: Transactions in GIS, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 355-370, 2020, ISSN: 13611682. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Historical Geography, Historical GIS, identity of localities, ontology, settlement units @article{Myrda.2020, When entering information about changes of settlements in time into a database, we are dealing with direct facts from historical sources and with interpretations. The source information generally relates to an event or situation at a specific time. This means that we only fill in the parts of the timeline with data objects called (partial) manifestations; however, lack of data does not mean that settlement did not exist. It would take a lot of time to interpret and enter missing information manually. In this article we present a database schema, database procedures and algorithms to generate aggregated settlement unit manifestations in an automated way from their partial manifestations. As a result, it is possible to obtain a continuous history of a given settlement so as to present it on a map. |
2018 |
Tomasz; Związek Tomasz; Myrda Panecki, Grzegorz The Spatial Database Development for Research on Settlements and Afforestation in Nowy Tomyśl Plain in Early Modern Times Journal Article In: Studia Geohistorica, vol. 6, pp. 186-205, 2018. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Dutch-type settlement, Environmental History, Historical Geography, Nowy Tomyśl Plain, retrogressive method @article{Panecki2018, |
2017 |
Związek, Tomasz Kuźnica w Stobnie. Uwagi osadnicze na marginesie edycji przywileju dla rudnika Jana Gelinghausa z 1560 roku Book Chapter In: Michał; Śnieżko Dzik, Grzegorz (Ed.): Fines testis temporum. Studia ofiarowane Profesor Elżbiecie Kowalczyk-Heymanw pięćdziesięciolecie pracy naukowej, pp. 127-147, 2017. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Environmental History, Historical Geography, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Archaeology, Polish History @inbook{Związek2017, The Smithery in Stobno. Some Settlement Remarks in Passing the Edition of the Privilege for the Smithery Steward John Gelinghaus from 1560. The bog iron was undoubtedly one of the most important natural resources needed for civilization development. The value of this raw material was determined by the fact that it was available everywhere where were existed the delicate depressive forms of water. There, in the deposition process of iron ions formed solids and sand containing precious iron particles. Production of iron intermediates took place in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times mostly in smitheries – a watermills structurally adapted for machining raw materials into an iron rails. Workers working there were looking for and harvesting bog ore, while others worked on charcoal, which was the primary source of energy needed to roast and melt bog ore into an iron intermediate. This last act was naturally carried out by other smithery workers. This far-reaching professional specialization demonstrated the complexity of the technological process, but also it has influenced people working in this type of objects on the basic needs of housing and food. It can be said that every establishment of a smithery in a given place caused the transition of this place into a smithery settlement (Pol. osada kuźnicza). Jan Gelinghaus, mentioned in the title of the article, probably did not participate actively in the entire technological process. He was probably the person holding the smithery in Stobno and administering it. Gelinghaus received from the general starosta’s (Pol. starosta generalny) of Greater Poland – Stanisław Górka – a privilege written in Polish in 1560. By virtue of this document, he was allowed to build a smithery in the estates of the Ujście and Piła eldership (Pol. starostwo) to extract bog ore and to exploit the forests in order to produce iron. This privilege, together with a whole other mass of sources, gives a better understanding of the temporal functioning of the smithery in the above-mentioned region landscape. Studies on the smithery settlement in Stobno enabled to observe strong correlations between the natural environment and the functioning of the industrial workshop. The smithery was withering by over-exploitation of forests and depletion of the resources of the bog iron. With the closure of the smithery workshop somewhere at the turn of the 16th and 17th century was transformed into a regular village with a grain watermill existing in this place for next few centuries. |
Tomasz; Panecki Związek, Tomasz Osadnictwo olęderskie w badaniach nad rekonstrukcją szesnastowiecznego zalesienia na przykładzie okolic Nowego Tomyśla Journal Article In: Studia Geohistorica, vol. 5, pp. 29-62, 2017. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Dutch-type settlement, Early Modern Times, forestation, Greater Poland in the 16th c., Historical Atlas of Poland, Historical Geography, Historical GIS, privilege, retrogressive method @article{Związek2017b, The Usage of 18th c. Dutch-type Settlement in the Context of Afforestation Reconstruction for Early Modern Times on the Example of Nowy Tomyśl Vicinities Even though settlement network reconstruction was (and still remains) a popular topic in geographical and historical research, it seldom considers questions of reconstruction of natural landscape. Lack of such studies could have been described both by focusing on other research goals, and by the absence of appropriate tools, which are now encapsulated in the GIS (Geographic Information System). The aims of the present study are as follows: to analyse previous works concerning afforestation reconstruction in a cartographic manner for Early Modern Times; to indicate the usage capabilities of Dutch-type (Polish: olędrzy or olendrzy) privileges in this respect; and – last but not least – to provide a scientific edition of selected documents from the Poznań State Archive (Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu). The present state of art clearly indicates two approaches dominant in the afforestation reconstruction. The first one is based on the assumption that there used to be a sort of “pre-forest” growing almost everywhere before the Medieval colonization started. This statement can be undermined as even in prehistoric times the activity of mankind had a significant impact on natural landscape (e.g. forests grubbing). According to the second approach, some works (e.g. Historical Atlas of Poland of the 16th c.) show forest network as being based on 18th and 19th c. cartographic sources. Within this framework, the remains of the so-called pre-forest can be distinguished in scrubs and bushes. The main assumption is that a huge forest on the borders of two 16th c. districts of Poznań and Kościan had existed until the turn of 17th c., when it was cut down by Dutch-type settlers during the 18th c. The above mentioned Dutch-type privileges give some insight into the forest (including its type) which had grown on the particular area before the colonization began. Relying on the information about the amount of land given to the settlers by land owners not only can we distinguish the scale of deforestation, but also indicate the specific forest type, i.e. deciduous, coniferous or mixed. This information can be compared with maps and also verified against the contemporary state. It transpires that a reconstruction of 16th c. afforestation might be possible, but rather than being based on privileges data, it should also refer to other information like cartography, soil data, onomastics, and archaeology. |
published papers
2020 |
Modeling and Presenting Incomplete and Uncertain Data on Historical Settlement Units Journal Article In: Transactions in GIS, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 355-370, 2020, ISSN: 13611682. |
2018 |
The Spatial Database Development for Research on Settlements and Afforestation in Nowy Tomyśl Plain in Early Modern Times Journal Article In: Studia Geohistorica, vol. 6, pp. 186-205, 2018. |
2017 |
Kuźnica w Stobnie. Uwagi osadnicze na marginesie edycji przywileju dla rudnika Jana Gelinghausa z 1560 roku Book Chapter In: Michał; Śnieżko Dzik, Grzegorz (Ed.): Fines testis temporum. Studia ofiarowane Profesor Elżbiecie Kowalczyk-Heymanw pięćdziesięciolecie pracy naukowej, pp. 127-147, 2017. |
Osadnictwo olęderskie w badaniach nad rekonstrukcją szesnastowiecznego zalesienia na przykładzie okolic Nowego Tomyśla Journal Article In: Studia Geohistorica, vol. 5, pp. 29-62, 2017. |