Paniagą pod Luftmaszynę, a stąd już blisko na Baldachówkę... Rzeszów - miasto na styku kultur

Abstrakt

At the times of Rzeszów incorporation, it was located in the borderland with Russia, that is on the meeting point of two cultures and two religions (Catholicism and the Orthodox Church). In the 16th century, first Jews came to the city with their own religion. Whereas, at the times of Partition of Poland, German speaking Austrians occurred in Rzeszów. This paper attempts to describe influence of multi-cultural character of Rzeszów on its onymic resource. Three names popular in the city were analysed: Paniaga, Baldachówka and Luftmaszyna – all three can be seen on the city signboards, plaques, in documents. They differ in terms of origin, but the objects are close in terms of distance, which designates similar time when they were built (at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries). They all are rooted in the onomastic image of the city and serve as a proof of former language interferences (the first name comes from the Lvov dialect, the second one – from German, the third one – from the Jewish surname), and now they are treated as peculiar onymic monuments representing three communities that – besides Poles – affected onymic image of the city.