'BACKSTREETS OF OUR HISTORY Ecopoints of information about local heritage' in the project entitled Model Solutions to Difficult Challenges - Local and Institutional Development Plan of Stalowa Wola - Implementation 2022-2023
The Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola is implementing a project that will result in the creation of an attractive educational path, consisting of eight Ecopoints of information about local heritage, located near historic buildings and historical places on the territory of the Charzewice, Rozwadów and former Pławo settlements. Through them, residents and tourists will be able to take advantage of stations that will encourage them to learn about the history and monuments of Stalowa Wola.
Before the autumn of 2023. Ecopoints will stand in the urban space, you can already use the application “Stops of our history. Stalowa Wola”, which is available online. This new tool will allow you to go on field trips on your own and discover many interesting places and historical buildings. Although the application was created to support Ecopoints of local heritage information, which will only appear in the city’s space in the autumn, it can already be useful for many a globetrotter. It is also available in English.
The app includes maps that will allow recipients to plan individual or group walking and bicycle tours. The History of Rozwadów route will provide information on the history of the former town, its founders and former townspeople, as well as information on Rozwadów’s multiculturalism and heroic underground activities during World War II. The sacred route will delight with the 18th-century architecture of the Capuchin monastery and the neo-Gothic parish church. The green nature trail in the city space will feature one of the oldest oak trees in the city called the Insurgents’ Oak, exotic species of shrubs and trees characteristic of the 18th- and 19th-century palace gardens, and unique natural monuments.
The application takes a closer look at the vicinity of: the former village of Plawo and the Ochronka building (Walowa Street, Plawo Street), the Capuchin monastery and the Rozwadowska cemetery, and the site of the Nazi labor camp on Mlodyn (Klasztorna Street, Traugutta Street, Gorka Street), the synagogue (Poprzeczna Street), the Sokol building and the former court building (now the A. Karpinski Painting Gallery, Rozwadowska Street). Poprzeczna), the Sokol building and the former court building (now the A. Karpinski Painting Gallery, Rozwadowska Street), the train station and the Kedyw Museum (Belzinski Street, Dabrowski Street), the Rozwadowski Market Square, the Museum – the former Lubomirski Castle, the court complex in Charzewice (Lubomirski Park).
The application can be used through the Regional Museum’s website www.muzeum.stalowawola.pl under the Projects tab or at the link www.ekopunkty.muzeum.stalowawola.pl.
The application was made as part of the tasks carried out by the Stalowa Wola Museum within the framework of the project “STOPS OF OUR HISTORY ECO-POSTS OF LOCAL HERITAGE” in the project entitled Model Solutions to Difficult Challenges – Local and Institutional Development Plan of Stalowa Wola and implemented under the program entitled Local Development Program, managed by the Leader – Stalowa Wola Municipality. The project was co-financed by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (85%) and the State Budget (15%) and aims to improve the local and institutional development of Stalowa Wola.
Substantive team:Aneta Garanty, Krzysztof Adamek, Beata Trybuła, Elżbieta Skromak
Cooperation:Zofia Nosowska, Grażyna Lewandowska, Zuzanna Karlik, Jan Wnuk, Augustyna Rachfalska, Henryk Giecko, Stanisław Bigda, Krystyna Mierzwa
Project coordinator: Elżbieta Skromak
Lecturers: Krzysztof Adamek, Piotr Krasnowolski
Translation of texts into English: Gabriela Siembida
Editing of texts in English: Piotr Krasnowolski
Language proofreading of texts in English: Anna Meysztowicz
Dendrological curiosities: Katarzyna Żak-Zatorska
Graphics, application: Digimuth Sp. z o.o.
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Project activities have been ongoing since 2022. Last year, the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola developed archival materials, texts and photographs for the needs of the didactic path, taking into account the opinions of residents who took part in three public consultations and expressed themselves in a questionnaire developed by the museum workers. Currently, work is underway on recording memories with “witnesses of history”-about the former Rozwadów, Plawa and Charzewice, and an architectural and construction project for the Ecopoints is being developed. Historical information stations “Stops of our history. Ecopoints of local heritage information” will be equipped with information boards, provided with USB sockets, photovoltaic panels, QR photo codes, mobile device chargers and a wireless network hot-spot, a bench and bicycle racks. At each stop, several minutes’ worth of memories of the city’s residents will be available for listening. As part of the project, the museum has also planned a training course in the fall of 2023 for those who would like to become guides on this newly created tourist path.
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