Volume 8
Issue 1
Civil Engineering
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume8/issue1/abs-20.html
TREES BOUND WITH RELIGIOUS CULT IN POLISH COUNTRY LANDSCAPE
Zuzanna Borcz
Department of Building and Landscape Architecture,
Agricultural University of Wroc³aw
ABSTRACT
In the paper examples of trees bound with objects of religious cult, found in Polish country landscape, are presented. In the first chapter trees situated near chapels, wayside-shrines or crosses are described; chapels are often surrounded by symmetrically planted groups of trees. The next chapter concerns trees found near village churches. Mostly they are reminders of former cemeteries, which due to urbanization progress are no more used. Trees bound with religious cult such as limes, maples and acacias are an important feature in Polish country landscape.
Key words: chapels, churches, country landscape, trees..
Zuzanna Borcz
Department of Building and Landscape Architecture,
Agricultural University of Wroc³aw
pl. Grunwaldzki 24, 50-363 Wroc³aw, Poland
email: borcz@aqua.ar.wroc.pl
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