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Lednica Landscape Park

protected area in the region of Lednica lake

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3502432 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lednica Landscape Park (Lednicki Park Krajobrazowy) is a protected area (Landscape Park) in west-central Poland.

The Park lies within Greater Poland Voivodeship, north of Gniezno, in the region of Lednica lake, the site of annual Roman Catholic religious youth gatherings.

The landscape of the park, shaped by the last glaciation, consists of ground moraine plains with hills of terminal moraine and long glacial gutters filled with lakes, covering about 7% of the protected area. Less than 10% of the park consists of forests, mainly pine forests with an admixture of spruce and deciduous species.

Editorial summary

“Lednica Landscape Park” enters the record as protected area in the region of Lednica lake. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lednica, Landscape and Park can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 94-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-05-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lednica, Landscape and Park.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lednica Landscape Park” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lednica, Landscape and Park provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3502432. VIAF identifies the subject as 235655073. Authority coordinates are 52.517, 17.367. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lednica Landscape Park”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lednica Landscape Park primary sources, Lednica Landscape Park archive and Lednica research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lednica Landscape Park”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Lednica Landscape Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.