Search results for "Silesia"
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The Use of Medicinal Clay from Silesia “Terra sigillata Silesiaca”, Central Europe - A New Chance for Natural Medicine?
2019
Silesia is a region in Central Europe with beneficial conditions for the presence of clay, including those with potential therapeutic efficacies, due to its very diverse and mosaic geological landscape. The first use of clay deposits in medicine in Silesia, “terra sigillata Silesiaca”, has been dated to 1550 AD, and the oldest written information related to this use has been dated to 1586 AD. Medicinal clay is formed by the accumulation of a mixture of minerals such as smectite, bentonite, montmorillonite, kaolinite, illite, and metahaloisite, with impurities of other minerals and fractions, resulting from the chemical weathering of rocks and the sedimentation of detritus. The quantitative …
Language shifts in the language biographies of immigrants from Upper Silesia residing in Germany
2020
Abstract The main objective of the article is to illustrate how language ideologies and language management at the macro-level (state language policy), micro-level (in families) and meso-level (local communities) influence language change and the conceptualization of multilingualism of immigrants from Upper Silesia residing in Germany. Language biographies of persons from Silesia demonstrate the significant influence of historical and political events on sociolinguistic processes. Original fragments of biographical interviews of the people surveyed constitute an integral part of the text.
Kult św. Barbary na Górnym Śląsku na tle europejskim
2019
Wiadomości o rudzkim opactwie cystersów – na podstawie dokumentu fundacyjnego z kapsuły czasu kościoła w Stanicy z 1802 r
2019
12 grudnia 2017 r. zdjęto krzyż z kulą z wieży kościoła parafialnego pw. św. Marcina w Stanicy – ostatniej świątyni zbudowanej przez opactwo cystersów w Rudach przed jego kasatą w 1810 r. W kapsule czasu znajdował się okolicznościowy zapis, sporządzony 20 września 1802 r. W oparciu o lekturę odkrytego dokumentu oraz dostępne opracowania na temat rudzkiego opactwa, autor omawia sytuację opactwa na początku burzliwego XIX w., a także charakteryzuje stan osobowy rudzkiego konwentu. W dalszej kolejności opisuje główne etapy budowy kościoła św. Marcina w Stanicy na kanwie dramatycznych dziejów zawieruchy napoleońskiej, posiłkując się kronikarskim zapisem ostatniej części odnalezionego dokumentu,…
Chrząszcze (Coleoptera) Śląska Dolnego i Górnego – dotychczasowy stan poznania oraz nowe dane faunistyczne: kobielatkowate (Anthribidae)
2015
The current state of knowledge on the fungus weevils (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) of Lower and Upper Silesia is presented. On the basis of data from literature and gathered by authors, from Lower Silesia 19 species have been recorded until now, while from Upper Silesia 17 species. Three species ( Choragus horni, Ch. sheppardi, Pseudeuparius sepicola) are new for these regions.
Anthropology of Political, Social and Cultural Memory: Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: Program & Abstracts : International Scientific Confer…
2020
Straight into the Eyes - Jacek Łumiński and the Silesian Dance Theatre (1991-2011)
2020
The fi nal decade of the 20 th century was the turning-point for the development of Polish contemporary dance. In 1991 Jacek Łuminski established the Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom. The theatre is said to be in the avant-garde of all activities related to contemporary dance development in Poland. It was J. Łuminski and his theatre who pioneered new trends in contemporary dance at the beginning of the nineties of the 20 th century, at the same time they have conducted educational activity over the intervening twenty years. The aim of this article is to present the artistic and educational activity of the Silesian Dance Theatre of the recent twenty years. In the beginning the author presents…
Dialektmerkmale des Deutschen in den sprachbiographischen Interviews der bilingualen Oberschlesier
2022
The article is based on language biographies which come from the interviews conducted as part of the German-Polish project LangGener with native inhabitants of the former German territories of today’s Poland. Out of 124 recordings, 20 linguistic biographical interviews with respondents from Upper Silesia were subjected to analysis where special attention was paid to the features of Silesian German dialects occurring in them. Even though the Silesian linguistic landscape is now considered by researchers to be a historical object of studies due to the shifting of borders after World War II and the accompanying population exchange, the article shows that the linguistic material currently obtai…
The role of rock mining for maintaining Dauco carotae-Crepidetum rhoeadifoliae Hejný et Grüll in Hejný et al. 1979 — a new to Poland plant association
2013
AbstractThis work presents the Dauco carotae-Crepidetum rhoeadifoliae plant association, which is new to Poland. The association has been observed in industrial reclamation areas in the vicinity of carbonate mineral excavation sites in the central part of the Opole region. In the vast majority of cases, plots of this association developed in reclaimed areas. The majority of diagnostic species for the association was found within surveyed plots, including Verbascum thapsus, V. densiflorum and Bryum argenteum. Taxa characteristic of the alliance were also constantly present, i.e. Daucus carota, Melilotus alba, M. officinalis, Echium vulgare and Erysimum hieracifolium. This association belongs…
Charakter publikacji ks. prałata Carla Ulitzki (1873–1953)
2017
Tekst stanowi charakterystykę dostępnych publikacji ks. prałata Carla Ulitzki (1873–1953) i stanowi przyczynek do poznania postaci oraz działalności proboszcza i działacza społecznego i politycznego, ale także wgląd w sytuację społeczną, polityczną i religijną na Górnym Śląsku w I połowie XX w. Teksty mają charakter popularnonaukowy i w większości zostały opublikowane na łamach ówczesnej prasy, dzięki czemu rozpowszechniały i popularyzowały myśl i zamierzenia autora. Dostępne teksty zasadniczo dotyczą trzech tematów: pisma z obszaru szeroko rozumianej religijności, teksty dotyczące zagadnień historycznych oraz publikacje z obszaru polityki, które stanowią najobszerniejszy dział.