City under (re)construction: Architectural narrations as a foundation story of a city with a broken cultural continuity
Journal: Zeitschrift für Slawistik
Year: 2025

Summary Using the fate of the Polish city of Wrocław as an example, I present the role of architectural reconstruction/renovation in building the identity of a city with broken structures of long duration. The emergence of Wrocław after the Second World from the ruins of the German city of Breslau was one of the most prominent urban social experiments in European history. However, due to the purely political context of the city’s birth, Wrocław residents still cope with the issue of having no ti