Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland, Volume 1: Silesia / Śląsk

Applicant

Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

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Co-operation partner

Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa (NID)

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Funding body

Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

https://kulturstaatsminister.de/

Funding body

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

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Funding body

Gerda Henkel Stiftung

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/

Funding body

Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit

https://fwpn.org.pl/

Project manager

Dr. Dietmar Popp GND

Project manager

Dr. Grzegorz Grajewski GND

Project coordinator

Sławomir Brzezicki GND

Project coordinator

Dr. Christine Nielsen GND

Laufzeit

1998 - 2006

Established by Georg Dehio in 1905, the “Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments” is a print reference work and travel guide that concisely conveys local and urban history and provides key facts and descriptions of a representative selection of buildings and their interiors in specific regions. Furthermore, as a comprehensive guide, it contributes to increased public awareness and a greater appreciation of Europe’s shared cultural heritage and its preservation.

Portal “DEHIO OME. Artistic Monuments in East Central Europe”

Since the 1990s, the “Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland”—initiated by a working group of German and Polish art historians and heritage conservationists—has expanded the scope of the long-established Dehio Handbook beyond German-speaking countries to Central and Eastern Europe, where a unique situation exists due to the region’s diverse historical and cultural ties with Germany.
Starting in 1998, the Handbook of Art Monuments in Silesia was compiled as the first joint project focusing on a region that was German before 1945 and is now Polish, and was published in two language versions. It describes the approximately 2,500 most important architectural monuments in the region. The descriptions of the monuments and introductory texts were written by 17 Polish and German scholars.

The sub-projects are carried out in close cooperation and consultation with research institutions and heritage authorities in the partner countries to incorporate diverse research perspectives. A distinctive feature of the publications on the countries of East Central Europe are the introductory texts on the history and art history of the respective regions; these are syntheses based on the current state of research, with an emphasis on phenomena and themes characteristic of the cultural landscape in question.
Since 2025, a project has been underway to digitize the analog handbook and publish it on the specialized portal “DEHIO OME. Art Monuments in East Central Europe.”

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