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Polish experience and cooperation initiatives directed at the international community<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the UNESCO World Heritage movement, Poland stands out for its activity in organising new international serial nominations, that is, nominations consisting of several assets from different countries representing the same typological group of monuments.<\/p>\n

EXPERIENCE<\/span><\/h3>\n

Poland has many years of experience in the preparation of nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage List. \u201cThe Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage\u201d was adopted in 1972 in Paris at the General Conference of UNESCO. In 1976, Poland was one of the first countries to ratify the document, and by 1978, it held two of the UNESCO list\u2019s first twelve entries, including the first technological monument on the list (Wieliczka Salt Mine).<\/p>\n

Poland remains one of the most active signatories of the Convention. From the outset, Poland actively contributed to the preparation of serial property nominations, including the Churches of Peace in Jawor & \u015awidnica (2001), Wooden Churches of Southern Ma\u0142opolska (2003) and Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines (2013), as well as international nominations: the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine (Poland and Ukraine, 2013) and transborder nominations: Park Mu\u017cakowski\/Muskauer Park (Poland and Germany, 2004).<\/p>\n

In both international entries, almost from the beginning, international conservation boards were appointed to ensure the continuous monitoring of the condition of the shared assets, with the National Institute of Heritage (Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa) acting as the coordinator for the Polish side.<\/p>\n

CURRENT INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION<\/span><\/h3>\n

The current UNESCO policy on the creation and promotion of universal values (OUV) focuses on filling representation gaps. It is worth noting that, in comparison with other continents, Europe is full of assets that are monuments in the classical sense. That is why it is necessary to look for original concepts still unrecognised by the UNESCO system of identification of cultural, natural, or mixed assets.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Poland has started intensive work to prepare several international serial nominations to fill the gaps found in analytical studies by ICOMOS-POLAND in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. In Poland, the still open information list has allowed us to verify potential candidates according to the new WHC guidelines, the policy of promoting new categories of material heritage, and the latest models of the UNESCO international management system. On that basis, we proposed more than a dozen candidates worth promoting, out of which, thanks to the active approach of Polish managers, it was possible to select a group of leading candidates, including the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdr\u00f3j, the Ignacy \u0141ukasiewicz Museum of Oil and Gas Industry in B\u00f3brka, and Museum of the Srebrna G\u00f3ra Stronghold.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the determination and activity of numerous actors on the local, national and international level, several international management cooperation consortiums have been established, initiating new projects to prepare serial property entries for the UNESCO World Heritage List:<\/p>\n

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  • Paper Mills from the Pre-Industrial Era (Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy),<\/li>\n
  • Beginnings of Petroleum Extraction (Poland, Germany, Canada),<\/li>\n
  • Mountain Fortresses (Poland, Italy, Germany).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Poland is the initiator and leader in all the aforementioned consortiums.<\/p>\n

    SERIAL ENTRIES CURRENTLY BEING PREPARED<\/span><\/h3>\n

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    PAPER MILLS FROM THE PRE-INDUSTRIAL ERA<\/strong>
    Six partners from Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, and Italy<\/h4>\n

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    The proposed international serial property nomination includes a group of six paper mills located in five countries: the Paper Mill in Duszniki-Zdr\u00f3j (Poland), the Paper Mill at Velk\u00e9 Losiny (Czech Republic), the Homburg Paper Mill (Germany), the Niederzw\u00f6nitz Paper Mill in (Germany), the Le Carte Paper Mill in Pescia (Italy), and the Capellades Paper Mill (Spain), which are evidence of Europe\u2019s leading role in the paper industry beginning in the 16th century.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The selected paper mills are unique examples of facilities which, starting in the 16th century, served the pre-industrial European paper industry using textile fibres. Led by Gutenberg\u2019s invention of movable types for relief printing but also by the Renaissance, reformation and the French Revolution, the gradual mechanisation of paper production in Europe after the second half of the 15th century allowed for the faster production of higher-quality paper and the spread of the mechanised paper production process across Europe. As a group, the paper mills represent a common model of a pre-industrial production site, which was widespread in Europe between the 18th and the 20th century, as well as the related cultural traditions of manual paper production in Europe and the continuation of these traditional methods of papermaking.<\/p>\n\n\t\t