Ladies and Gentlemen!
We invite you to the meeting of the Upper Silesian Genealogical Society "Silius Radicum", to be held 17 brand 2025 the chair. 18:00
at the headquarters of the "Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów", in a room on the first floor.
The meeting will be a continuation of the started in 2024 year of action, whose goal is to facilitate the GTG members of studies about the place, from which their ancestors came.
In the case of Silesia, we can talk about exceptional happiness, because in addition to the harvest of historical maps we have others, valuable sources of information about the towns located here.
On Monday, 17 brand 2025, Mrs. Antonina Żaba, It will introduce us to the world of Silesian topography, fixed by
from the poplar near Kamieniec Ząbkowicki, cartoonist Friedrich Bernhard Wernher (1690-1776).
Friedrich Bernhard Wernher is the author of a beautifully illustrated manuscript:
Silesia in Compendio Seu Topographia This is a praesentatio and description of the Duchy of Silesia […].
Topography, dated to the second half of the 18th century, contains maps, Plans and views of the towns and individual urban-architectural assumptions.
The purpose of the presentation, which Mrs. Antonina Żaba will lead, It will be paying attention to unusual mapping methods, which Wernher used in his study.
Water mills are a particularly interesting group of these performances, which will be discussed in more broadly in the presentation.
The author of the presentation encourages you to use access to the work in question at the Digital Library of the University of Wrocław:
https://bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/dlibra/publication/8092/edition/15414/silesia-in-compendio-seu-topographia-das-ist-praesentatio-und-beschreibung-des-herzogthums-schlesiens-pars-i-wernher-friedrich-bernhard
We invite all members of the GTG Silius Radicum and starters, and not only, your adventure with genealogy.
On behalf of the board, they invite
Antonina Żaba and Izabella Wojsyk
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