Stones of Zielona Góra and spaces of Zielona Góra in the university education (a lit(h)olinguist’s perspective)

Abstract

The lit(h)olinguistics of educational reflection focuses on stones and names relating to stones present in various open and closed spaces of the City of Magpies. It is their specificity that the students of the University of Zielona Góra explore at the interdepartamental seminar known as „Kamień w kulturze” („Stone in Culture”). The relation of space -city-stones has become an inspiration to comment on multiple stones found in Zielona Góra , among others, in: a) the landscape (terminal moraine, brown coal, lapidarium), b) secular architecture (city walls made of field stones, sidewalk, stone foundations), c) sacral architecture (medieval stone chapel in the Vineyard – „Kaplica na Winnicy”, rococo stone baptismal font), d) the museum of Zielona Góra (“disgrace” heavy stones), or e) a jeweler company (amber, pearl, brilliant). Stones that the students learn about, which spatially embellish Zielona Góra, and their names were listed and interpreted in the paper. They make the City of Wine an urban phenomenonwith stone elements of nature and culture being part of its palimpsest layers.