REGIONAL INFORMATION:
Kujawsko-Pomorskie / Poland

DESCRIPTION

The Fryderyk Chopin Route in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region is based upon 21 towns and villages. The main centres of the route include the Chopin’s Centre in Szafarnia and Kujawsko-Dobrzyński Open Air Park in Kłóbka. Szafarnia is located seven kilometres away from the city of Golub-Dobrzyń, where an early medieval Teutonic castles had been erected. Both centres are units of the self-government of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province. The Fryderyk Chopin Route in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province also introduces the works of regional traditions to us. Courses conducted in both centres of the route present characteristics and origins of the regional population, elements of regional history and its most famous representatives, elements of history of regional culture, regional tradition, customs and music.

ACTIVITIES

1.) Kujawsko-Dobrzyński Open Air Park

This is a place, where you can see old wooden village houses, traditional objects and tools connected with life and work of inhabitants of our region from the end of the 19th century to the 30s of the 20th century.

Visitors will have the chance to visit the exhibition Open Air Park as well as listen to Chopin’s work.

2.) Chopin’s Centre in Szafarnia

The Chopin’s Centre in Szafarnia is a cultural institution, which was established to show life of the young Fryderyk Chopin. The centre gradually extended its activities to become a place, in which all fields of art meet presently.

The Chopin’s Centre mainly deals with lively concert activities. Famous artists from Poland and abroad perform on the stage of the Chopin’s Centre and one may hear not only Chopin’s works there. The repertoire of includes classical music, jazz interpretations or cabaret music. The Centre is a place of cultural and tourist activities and includes gym rooms, library, a conference room for 40 people, museum rooms and a concert hall. Furthermore, it offers high standard guestrooms (14 in total). There is also a café in historical cellar.

3.) Research and analysis of pilot area

The evaluation included such activities as an analysis of qualities or existing infrastructure. It aimed to find attractive resources, evaluate the potential for tourism development as well as selection of such qualities and resources, which are likely to attract customers and tourists. An important step was the diagnosis of archaeological heritage in Kaldus and the development of an exploitation plan.

RESULTS

A socio–demographic analysis has been made to exploit historical sites into the cultural-tourist product, starting from the ethnographic park showing regional farms from the 18th and 19th century in Klobka and Chopin’s Centre in Szafarnia. 21 towns and villages are participating in this pilot action, whereas the main route was diveded into 5 parts. The general offer was based upon school tourism, which belongs to one of the most dynamically developing tourism sectors. Those offers have been included in the website: www.chopin2010.visitkujawsko-pomorskie.pl.

Furthermore, a Chopin online game has been developed to have the chance to learn more about him, his surrounding and the past traditions.

Many of the goods collected are used for art or design and both organizations deal with handicapped people in their activities. We produced 1000 re-use boxes which are distributed by our partner organizations. It is still too early to say if the are utilized as we initially anticipated, but as we have already seen some boxes returned which indicates some preliminary levels of success. As for now – all 1000 boxes are in distribution (either already given away or in the seats of our NGO partners). The second collection event took place in September 2014, during the Social Economy Forum. It was preceded by similar promotional action as the one in June 2014. The promotional and information campaign which preceded the two collections was successful proven by that we receive regular phone calls from people who would like to donate diff erent things that are not in use in their
households anymore.

The Mechanical School Complex was chosen for the intervention in Bydgoszcz. The City is the owner of the school territory and will be the owner of the future building to be constructed, whereas the Headmaster of the Mechanical School Complex functions as the manager of the school. The school have already started enrolment procedures for a new RES specialization school course.

Progress of Bydgoszcz activities:

1.10.2012 The designer submitted the zoning plan for this new area.

15.10.2012 The Investment Department applied for decision on environmental conditions of approval of undertaking.

19.10.2012 The Investment Department applied for new technical conditions of establishing grid connections.

27.12.2012 The Investment Department acquired  a building permit No. 1410/2012

December 2012 Technical documentation obtained as well as cost estimate

January-March 2013 Modification of the design documentation in order to reduce the costs

March-April 2013 Completion of the modification of the design documentation

May 2013: the tender for the construction of Demonstration Centre was announced.

July 2013: the start of construction works

April 2014: the end of construction works

May 2014: the acceptance of works

24 June 2014: official opening of the RES Demonstration Centre and handing it over to the Mechanical School Complex no. 2 Director, Ryszard lewandowski by the City Mayor, Rafał Bruski

For photos of the RES Demonstration Centre, go here: