‘THE FOUR SEASONS’ IN THE HISTORY OF LUBLIN JEWS – DESIGN FOR A MEMORIAL GARDEN ON THE SITE OF THE FORMER JEWISH CEMETERY IN LUBLIN

TERESA OLEJARNIK

AGNIESZKA ZIERNICKA-WOJTASZEK

ABSTRACT

The subject of the project is a conceptual design for a Memorial Garden on the site of the former Jewish cemetery, located on the area joining the Ponikwoda and Kalinowszczyzna districts in Lublin. The area covered by the project is an unfenced part of the former Jewish cemetery, without tombstones, which now serves as an ersatz park for residents of nearby buildings, with poor infrastructure and vegetation. The premise of the work was to reconcile the contradictory functions of the site by creating a much-needed park in the area while at the same time ensuring appropriate respect for the history of the site. The core of the work is the conceptual design of the Memorial Garden, owing to which the area will gain spatial order, while through the planned variation of phenological phenomena the vegetation will acquire symbolic meaning, as each season will be associated with a particular period in the history of Lublin Jews.

Key words: Memorial Garden, phenology, Jews, Lublin