From a historic village to an industrial centre : transformations of a settlement in the 18th and 19th century taking the example of the village of Zborowskie in Upper Silesia and a local manufactory producing stoneware smoking pipes

The study tries to describe the transformations of a village called Zborowskie in the Liswarta river basin in the south-east frontier part of Upper Silesia. This village was probably founded in the late Middle Ages as a dependant village (though it was transformed relatively soon into a demesne). A pivotal moment in its history that rapidly changed its appearance, both in terms of spatial arrangement and social structure, was the establishment of a manufactory producing stoneware smoking pipes in 1753, in parallel with the intensive German colonisation of Upper Silesia. A new site was reserved for the purposes of the manufactory and Western experts were called in. Archaeological research conducted in 2013 and 2014 revealed the size of the former manufactory and corrected the original supposition about the origin of the wooden structure that had been regarded as a factory building from the 18th century: After the explorations it was described as a residential building designed for more families (known as czworak, square-shaped) from the 19th century.