Polskie Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze

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Polskie Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze (PTK)
Logo of the association
sport Alpinism
Founded 1885, 1906
Place of foundation Warsaw
Association headquarters Warsaw , ( Poland )
Official languages) Polish

The Polskie Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze - PTK ( German  Polish Society for Regional Studies ) was an association founded in 1906 for mountain and regional studies in Poland .

history

The idea of ​​founding a mountain and regional studies association goes back to Aleksander Janowski, who made this decision in 1885 after visiting the ruins of Ogrodzeniec Castle . Since it was not possible to implement the project due to the political situation in the Russian Congress Poland , the association was initially not entered in the register of associations. It was not registered until 1906, immediately after Russia was weakened in the Russo-Japanese War . In order to express the solidarity of the Poles in the three divided areas , the Ogrodzieniec Castle in a ring with the coats of arms of the cities of Warsaw , Cracow and Poznan was chosen as the logo . The seat of the association was Warsaw. The association was particularly strong for the opening of regional museums and the construction of mountain huts in the Heiligkreuz Mountains and the Kraków-Częstochowa Jura . By 1939 he financed the establishment of around twenty museums, including in Kalisz (1908), Suwałki (1908), Piotrków Trybunalski (1909), Łowicz (1910), Sandomierz (1921), Nowogród (1927) and Warka .

The association also published tourist guides, information material, postcards and the association magazine Ziemia , in which Ludwik Krzywicki , Wacław Nałkowski , Eugeniusz Romer , Ludomir Sawicki , Stanisław Józef Thugutt published, among others .

The first refuge was built in Święta Katarzyna at the foot of the Łysica in the Holy Cross Mountains. Others followed in different parts of Poland. After the First World War , the association expanded its sphere of activity to the whole of the Second Polish Republic .

After the German attack on Poland , the PTK ceased its activities. After 1945 he took it up again. However, the bourgeois association was a thorn in the side of the Soviet occupying power. The PTK and the Polish Tatra Society were therefore forcibly dissolved on December 16, 1950. On December 17, 1950, the Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze (PTTK) was founded, which took over the assets of the dissolved associations.

In 1993 a regional association (PTKraj.) Was founded with its seat in Zielona Góra .

Memberships

Honorary members

  1. Aleksander Walerian Jabłonowski - 1909
  2. Bronisław Chlebowski - 1909
  3. Gustaw Manteuffel - 1909
  4. Tadeusz Korzon - 1912
  5. Bronisław Znatowicz - 1912
  6. Benedykt Dybowski - 1914
  7. Wandalin Szukiewicz - 1914
  8. Władysław Szajnocha - 1920
  9. Stefan Żeromski - 1924
  10. Aleksander Janowski - 1927
  11. Karol Hoffman - 1927
  12. Kazimierz Kulwieć - 1927
  13. Michał Rawita Witanowski - 1927
  14. Tadeusz Włoszek - 1927
  15. Antoni Olszakowski - 1931
  16. Aniela Chmielińska - 1932
  17. Seweryn Udziela - 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulczycki Zbigniew: Zarys historii turystyki w Polsce, wyd. “Sport i Turystyka”, Warszawa 1977, s. 84.
  2. ^ Krótki Przewodnik po Warszawie i okolicach napisał Stanisław Thugutt z 13 ilustracjami i planem miasta. Warszawa 1914 (ok. 70 p.).
  3. ↑ Homepage (Polish)