@article{Rębkowski_Romanowicz_2015, title={Siedziba prepozyta kapituły kamieńskiej w Lubinie na wyspie Wolin}, volume={63}, url={https://journals.iaepan.pl/khkm/article/view/858}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 127.47px; top: 830.9px; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.16px; transform: scaleX(0.993952);">THE RESIDENCE OF THE PROVOST OF THE KAMIEŃ CATHEDRAL CHAPTER </span><span style="left: 259.67px; top: 847.71px; font-family: serif; font-size: 14.16px; transform: scaleX(0.988526);">IN LUBIN ON THE ISLAND OF WOLIN</span></p> <p><span style="left: 123.5px; top: 894.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.00332);">Lubin is a small village on the south-western edge of the island of Wolin on the Szczecin </span><span style="left: 93.49px; top: 913.1px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.993701);">Lagoon. The stronghold that was built there in the early Middle Ages had an important admin</span><span style="left: 93.49px; top: 931.91px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.979344);">istrative role in the Duchy of West Pomerania. One of the fi rst churches in Pomerania was built </span><span style="left: 93.49px; top: 950.72px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.01978);">there when bishop Otto of Bamberg undertook his Christianization mission. In 1186 or 1187 </span><span style="left: 93.49px; top: 969.53px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.965071);">Duke Bogusław I of Pomerania granted the Lubin stronghold, together with its church of  <span style="left: 93.5px; top: 105.28px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.977309);">St Nicholas and several nearby villages, to the chapter of the Kamień cathedral. The stronghold </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 123.95px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.00474);">soon lost its position and in thirteenth-century sources it is referred to as just villa Lubin. Six</span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 142.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.939584);">teenth-century sources indicate that the provost of the chapter has his seat there, located on </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 161.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.958027);">a hill, probably where the stronghold used to be. Excavations carried out in that site in 2008–2011 </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 179.95px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.975637);">revealed relics of two buildings dated to the late Middle Ages, which can be identifi ed with this </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 198.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.01878);">residence. The article discusses these fi</span><span style="left: 342.72px; top: 198.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.932437);">nds, aiming to establish whether this identifi</span><span style="left: 629.98px; top: 198.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.03343);"> cation is </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 217.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.00024);">correct.</span><span style="left: 123.5px; top: 235.96px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.976001);">The Lubin stronghold lost its defensive function soon after it had been given to the Kamień </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 254.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.00266);">chapter. The late Middle Ages, most probably the 14</span><span style="left: 427.79px; top: 253.93px; font-family: serif; font-size: 9.23px; transform: scaleX(0.999757);">th</span><span style="left: 434.97px; top: 254.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.01428);"> or 15</span><span style="left: 472.45px; top: 253.93px; font-family: serif; font-size: 9.23px; transform: scaleX(0.999757);">th</span><span style="left: 479.63px; top: 254.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.00867);"> c., brought major changes in the </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 273.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.967769);">use of the hill plateau: two buildings were erected in the northern and southern part of the former </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 291.95px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.02058);">stronghold. One of them was almost completely demolished, probably in the 19</span><span style="left: 608.37px; top: 291.27px; font-family: serif; font-size: 9.23px; transform: scaleX(0.999757);">th</span><span style="left: 615.55px; top: 291.95px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.05088);"> c.; its only </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 310.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.988454);">surviving part is a small fragment of the foundation built of fieldstones and Gothic bricks. The </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 329.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.01622);">other one was also demolished but its cellars and foundations, made of stone and brick, have </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 347.95px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.987636);">survived in a very good condition. This house was built on a square plan; it measured </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 366.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.96296);">4.00 × 3.80 m. On the northern side it had stairs leading to the cellar. The fi ll of the cellar cont</span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 385.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.01985);">ained fragments of architectural details (painted plaster, roof-tiles, bricks, glazed fl</span><span style="left: 627.97px; top: 385.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.01379);"> oor-tiles, </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 403.96px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.999789);">window glass) and furnishings (glass vessels, pottery, stove-tiles). </span><span style="left: 123.51px; top: 422.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.991712);">The finds should be interpreted as the foundations of a country house built by the provost </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 441.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.0022);">in the centre of the Lubin estate in the late Middle Ages. Its main part was a residential tower, </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 459.96px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.978318);">modelled on castles in the nearby provinces of Mecklemburg and Brandenburg. The furnishings </span><span style="left: 93.5px; top: 478.63px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.00929);">imply that the owner was very well-off. The tower was dismantled or destroyed in the 16</span><span style="left: 662.31px; top: 477.93px; font-family: serif; font-size: 9.23px; transform: scaleX(0.999757);">th</span><span style="left: 669.49px; top: 478.62px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(1.03288);"> c., </span><span style="left: 93.49px; top: 497.29px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.97399);">soon after the chapter lost the Lubin estate in 1579, and the area of the former stronghold ceased </span><span style="left: 93.49px; top: 515.95px; font-family: serif; font-size: 15.83px; transform: scaleX(0.999766);">to be used for residential purposes.</span></span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej}, author={Rębkowski, Marian and Romanowicz, Paulina}, year={2015}, month={sty.}, pages={391–410} }