Między kościołem a cmentarzem Przyczynek do losów dziedzictwa kulturowego ziem zachodnich po 1945 r. na przykładzie pomnika wojennego z Lisiego Pola
Between the Church and the Cemetery A Contribution to the Fate of the Cultural Heritage of the Western Lands after 1945 On the Example of the War Memorial from Lisie Pole

Summary/Abstract: In 1945, along with the western territories, Poland incorporated foreign heritage into its borders, including numerous war memorials commemorating the fallen inhabitants of these lands during the First World War. Some of those memorials were demolished, some were buried, others were modified to varied degrees and even adapted to new demands through sacralisation, while some – standing on the periphery – have survived largely untouched to this day. Their fate was similar to other objects that were part of the post-German heritage. The aim of this article is to present the post-war life of the war memorial from Lisie Pole (municipality of Chojna, West Pomeranian Voivodeship) based on surviving archival documents. The monument, which stood near the church in the centre of the village, was dis- assembled and the crowning sculpture now sits on the stone foot of a Gotland medieval baptismal font, most likely originating from the 13th century. The instance recounted here is an interesting example of the fate of foreign uncomfortable cultural heritage found in the western territories, as well as the new community’s attitude towards it.

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