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The focus of this chapter is Centennial Hall, a modernist meeting complex located in today’s Polish city of Wroclaw, inscribed since 2006 on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Through the concept of cultural landscape, we trace the heritage-making process from the Hall’s origins in the 1913 German Empire through its transformations in the post-WWII communist Poland and then in Poland’s post-1989 Third Republic. We show how this place of heritage was a centre point of legitimization projects across different ideological and historical regimes. This expansive understanding of Centennial Hall as a cultural landscape, we argue, allows us to illuminate the situatedness of this place of heritage within historical relationships and sociocultural practices, economic and political processes inherent to Central Europe’s changing geopolitical conditions.

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From Centennial Hall to People’s Hall and Back: Historic Urban Landscape, Legitimacy and the Making of Heritage in Central Europe’s Contested Borderlands

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    2026年

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  • Hana Cervinkova,
  • Juliet D. Golden

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The focus of this chapter is Centennial Hall, a modernist meeting complex located in today’s Polish city of Wroclaw, inscribed since 2006 on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Through the concept of cultural landscape, we trace the heritage-making process from the Hall’s origins in the 1913 German Empire through its transformations in the post-WWII communist Poland and then in Poland’s post-1989 Third Republic. We show how this place of heritage was a centre point of legitimization projects across different ideological and historical regimes. This expansive understanding of Centennial Hall as a cultural landscape, we argue, allows us to illuminate the situatedness of this place of heritage within historical relationships and sociocultural practices, economic and political processes inherent to Central Europe’s changing geopolitical conditions.