Budownictwo drewniane wsi kaliskiej i sieradzkiej w muzeach. Przyczynek do porównawczej historii architektury wiejskiej w guberni kaliskiej

Abstract

Rural Wooden Architecture of the Kalisz and Sieradz Regions Preserved in Museums. An Introduction to Comparative History of Peasant’s Architecture in the Kalisz Governorate The aim of this contribution is to offer a brief outline of changes in forms and typologies of rural peasant architecture across the Kalisz Governorate (gubernyia) at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What kind of factors were shaping construction and typological arrangements of such kind of building types, including peasants homes and different agricultural buildings? Comparing architectural objects from the areas of Kalisz and Sieradz, preserved in the local open-air museums, the Author shows differences and similarities of the housing and production or utility spaces that framed settings for the changing conditions of the rural life at that time.