Editing Szczecin (section)

=== Architecture and urban planning ===
[[File:Śląska Street in Szczecin, 2018 (14).jpg|thumb|right|[[Tenement]]s on Śląska Street. Much of Szczecin's core, excluding the Old Town, features historic [[Gründerzeit]] architecture.]]
Szczecin's [[architectural style]] reflects trends popular in the last half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century: [[Academic art]] (historicist [[Gründerzeit]]) and [[Art Nouveau]]. In many areas built after 1945, especially in the city centre, which had been partly destroyed due to Allied bombing, [[social realism]] is prevalent.

The city has an abundance of green areas: [[park]]s and avenues{{snds}}wide streets with trees planted in the island separating opposing traffic (where often [[tram]] tracks are laid); and [[roundabout]]s corresponding to the [[Orion constellation]]. Szczecin's city plan resembles that of [[Paris]], mostly because Szczecin was remodelled in the 1880s according to a design by [[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]], who had [[Haussmann's renovation of Paris|redesigned Paris]] under [[Napoleon III|Napoléon III]].<ref name="ncdc.eu">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncdc.eu/single-post/2014/10/01/The-History-and-Culture-of-Szczecin|title=NCDC|access-date=30 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030201738/http://www.ncdc.eu/single-post/2014/10/01/The-History-and-Culture-of-Szczecin|archive-date=30 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> This pattern of street design is still used in Szczecin, as many recently built (or modified) city areas include roundabouts and avenues.<ref name="ncdc.eu"/>

During the city's reconstruction in the aftermath of World War II, the communist authorities of Poland wanted the city's architecture to reflect an old Polish [[Piast]] era. Since no buildings from that time existed, instead [[Brick Gothic|Gothic]] as well as [[Renaissance]] buildings were picked as worthy of conservation.<ref name=musekamp23>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 23}}</ref> The motivation behind this decision was that Renaissance architecture was used by the [[House of Pomerania|Griffin dynasty]], which had [[Lechites|Lechitic]] and [[West Slavs|West Slavic]] roots and was seen to be of Piast extraction by some historians.<ref name=musekamp31>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 31}}</ref> This view was manifested, for example, by erecting respective memorials, and the naming of streets and enterprises,<ref name=musekamp33>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 33}}</ref> while German traces were replaced by symbols of three main categories: Piasts, the martyrdom of Poles, and gratitude to the Soviet and Polish armies which had ended the [[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation|Nazi atrocities against Polish citizens]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wawrzyniak|first=Joanna|chapter=Die Westgebiete in der Ideologie des polnischen Kommunismus|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=298–319; p. 306}}</ref>

The ruins of the [[Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Szczecin|former Griffin residence]], initially renamed "Piast Palace", also played a central role in this concept<ref name=musekamp31/> and were reconstructed in Renaissance style, with all traces of later eras removed.<ref name=musekamp30>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 30}}</ref> In general, post-Renaissance buildings, especially those from the 19th and early 20th centuries, were deemed unworthy of conservation until the 1970s,<ref name=musekamp23/> and were in part used in the "Bricks for Warsaw" campaign (an effort to rebuild [[Warsaw]] after it had been [[Planned destruction of Warsaw|systematically razed]] following the [[Warsaw Uprising]]): with 38 million bricks, Szczecin became Poland's largest brick supplier.<ref name=musekamp28>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 28}}</ref> The Old Town was rebuilt in the late 1990s, with new buildings, some of which were reconstructions of buildings destroyed in World War{{nbsp}}II.

The Gothic monuments preserved to this day are parts of [[European Route of Brick Gothic]], along with monuments of other Pomeranian cities, e.g. [[Stargard]], [[Kamień Pomorski]], [[Sławno]] and [[Chełmno]].

A portion of the [[Szczecin Landscape Park]] in the forest of Puszcza Bukowa lies within Szczecin's boundaries.

Szczecin contains 28 extant historic water pumps, known as [[Szczecin pumps]] or Berliners, which are a popular tourist attraction due to their colorful and intricate design.<ref name="gs">{{cite web|url=https://gs24.pl/zabytkowe-pompy-w-szczecinie-pieknieja/ar/4964706|title=Zabytkowe pompy w Szczecinie pięknieją|language=pl|website=gs24.pl|date=30 July 2014 |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref>

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File:Szczecin 05-2017 img06 Rynek.jpg|Façades in the rebuilt old town
File:Pałac pod Globusem w Szczecinie - panoramio (cropped).jpg|Globe Palace
File:1 Krzywoustego Street in Szczecin, April 2022.jpg|Tenement house at Vicory Square
File:Velthusen Palace in Szczecin, 2018.jpg|Velthusen Palace
File:Bogusława X Street in Szczecin, 2022.jpg|Bogusław X Street
File:Szczecin plac Grunwaldzki dron (1).jpg|Grunwald Square
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