The Głogów Cathedral and the Głogów Archaeological Museum

Ernest Niemczyk

doi:10.37190/arc240111

Abstract

This outline is an attempt to show the beginnings of the wide-ranging archaeological and architectural research of the Old Town of Głogów, almost completely destroyed as a result of the defense of Festung Glogau in 1945, carried out under the leadership of Professor Tadeusz Kozaczewski, in which the author participated since his studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He shows the changing role of the architect in the research process; from a romantic explorer and discoverer – in the likeness of Winckelmann or Schliemann – to the head of a large, interdisciplinary research team and chief coordinator of the documentation work. It focuses on a forgotten episode in the research on the chancel of St. Peter’s Church, when numerous burials of prehistoric and medieval chronology were discovered. It became a pretext for re-presenting the discovery along with the archaeological context. As a long-time educator, the author draws attention to the need to conduct and constantly improve methods of interdisciplinary research and systematically verify findings with representatives of other sciences.

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