Opuszczone średniowieczne osady wiejskie wschodnich Górnych Łużyc a przyrodnicze czynniki lokalizacji osadnictwa : zarys problemu
alternative title:
A sketch on the question of natural factors of the placement of the deserted medieval rural settlements of the Eastern Upper Lusatia
author:
Fokt Krzysztof
editor:
Kittel Piotr, Forysiak Jacek, Domańska Lucyna
book title:
Środowiskowe uwarunkowania lokalizacji osadnictwa = Environmental determinants of settlement location
date of publication
:
2009
place of publication : name of publisher:
Poznań : Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe
pages:
207-214
ISBN:
978-83-61320-72-2
series:
Środowisko, Człowiek, Cywilizacja. Seria wydawnicza Stowarzyszenia Archeologii Środowiskowej, ISSN 1898-1712; t. 2
notes:
Bibliogr. s. 213-214.
language:
Polish
book language:
Polish
abstract in English:
Study of natural factors that influenced abandonment of mediaeval rural settlements of eastern Upper
Lusatia reflects three processes. The first one, most clearly visible through historical and archaeological
evidence, is the adjustment of settlement to new models of rural economy prevailing in the 12th–14th centuries.
In that case, natural factors used to constitute a framework for villages being grounded or rearranged either
on the same or on new places in the time of the great colonization. The same applies to the second process,
discernible already in the 15th cent.: abandonement of places especially disadventageous for agriculture.
In that case, natural factors constituted limits of economic effectiveness of agricultural production in particular
settlement locations. In one case, the influence of natural factors on abandonement of a village was direct,
namely in the case of the site Jędrzychowice 9–10, which was covered with alluvial sediments of Nysa river.
Detailed study upon the topic of natural factors shaping the form of rural settlement in eastern Upper Lusatia
ought to be carried forward in a multi-disciplinary manner.