Dziedzictwo kulturowe na tle przemian społeczno-gospodarczych zachodniej Polski w latach 70.i 80. XX wieku

The problem of protecting cultural heritage in territories of Northern and Western Poland is still, despite the passage of years and extensive literature, a scientific challenge. This subject matter covers not only legal and economic issues, but in the context of post-war Poland also aspects of Polish-German relations, the adaptation of an alien cultural heritage by the Polish society, issues of transformations in education, and last but not least, the process of the formation of local communities. The aim of the article is an attempt to determine whether differentiated approaches to the problem in the period 1945-1989 can be distinguished. This would allow to define the process of evolution of relation to an alien cultural heritage against the backdrop of social and political change. Previous studies of the subject focused on comprehensive approaches to the period of Polish communism. The attempt to introduce internal dividing lines should, according to the author, facilitate grasping the indicated processes more precisely, especially for the purpose of research into contemporary phenomena. Thus, the thesis of paper is the assumption that with reference to monuments in the west of Poland the 1970s and 1980s should be considered separately within the entire post-war period. At the same time, the consequences of activities pertaining to the cultural heritage during those decades have an impact on contemporary phenomena.