In 19th and 20th centuries wooden architecture became very popular among researchers and enthusiasts of vernacular culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Numerous texsts by professional scholars and amateurs reflected their general opinions on communities they associated with timber constructions. Many remarks and theories testfied to ethnic tensions as well as heterostereotypes and autostereotypes coined by competing ethnic groups. German scholars, for example, percieved Upper Silesian wooden churches as monuments to original Slavic culture petrified due to the backwardness and poverty believed by them to be characteristic of Slavs. This view corresponded with the myth of Prussian/German cultural mission in the East.
The study of the problem of wooden architecture intensified within the borders of the Russian Empire in the middle of the last century (some of them):
Султанов, Николай Владимирович.Рецензия на сочинения А.М. Павлинова: История русской архитектуры, древности ярославские и ростовские, древние храмы Витебска и Полоцка и деревянные церкви г. Витебска Санкт-Петербург : тип. Акад. наук, 1897
Уваров, Алексей Сергеевич .Об архитектуре первых деревянных церквей на Руси. Санкт-Петербург, тип. Имп. Акад. наук, 1876.
A significant number of manuscripts are in the Russian State Library I can give you only a few out of a thousand publications:
Лисенко, Лев Михайлович.Деревянное зодчество русского народа : Заонежье : диссертация ... доктора архитектуры : - Москва, 1975.
Alexander Opolovnikov a. Yelena Opolovnikova The Wooden architecture of Russia: Houses, fortifications, churches Introd. by David Buxton; New York: Abrams, 1989.
Харламов, Виктор Александрович. Архитектура жилых деревянных комплексов Киева Х - первой половины XIII в. : по раскопкам Подола : диссертация кандидата архитектуры, Киев, 1990.
В постсоветский период с 2010 издается сборник "Деревянное зодчество" : Российская акад. архитектуры и строит. наук, Науч.-исслед. ин-т теории и истории архитектуры и градостроительства ; по редакцией А. Б. Бодэ и др. - Москва; Санкт-Петербург, Коло, 2010.
Ивашко, Юлия Вадимовна. Опыт комплексного изучения архитектуры деревянных церквей Киевщины на протяжении их формирования (IХ-ХVIII ст.) : диссертация кандидата архитектура: - Киев, 1997.
Самолькина, Елена Григорьевна. Особенности новейшей деревянной архитектуры в России : дисссертация кандидата архитектуры - Нижний Новгород, 2015.
Comparable discourses like the examples given for Upper Silesia can be found above all for the interwar period with a view to Transylvania. The wooden churches of the Greek Orthodox but also Greek Catholic communities were interpreted differently by the Hungarian and Romanian researchers. the Hungarian side often interpreted them as simple, poor variations of the stone architecture realized by the Hungarian or Saxon builders in the course of the “Landesausbau”. In contrast, the Romanian side emphasized the originality and deep anchoring of this type of construction in the autochthonous traditions.
a separate complex is formed by the works of Hermann Phleps, who interpreted rural wooden architecture in Transylvania as a continuation of the wooden construction method introduced by the (Germanic) Gepids in Transylvania. with regard to the theories of the spread of wooden architecture in Eastern Central Europe, a look at the institutional environment of Hermann Phleps at the “Technischen Hochschule in Danzig” might also be of interest. the aspects briefly outlined here are presented in greater detail in the following contributions:
Robert Born: The Historiography of Art in Transylvania and the Vienna School in the Interwar Period. In: Centropa 9/3 (2009), pp. 185-196.
Valentin Trifescu: L’etnicizzazione dei simboli artistici regionali.Il problema delle torri-campanili delle chiese di legno di Transilvania e Partium nella storiografia romena del periodo interbellico, în „Text şi Discurs Religios”, VII, Iaşi, 2015, pp. 137-148.
Robert Born: Zwischen Siebenbürgen und Norwegen. Die Forschungen von Hermann Phleps zur Holzarchitektur und deren politische Instrumentalisierung. In: Kunstgeschichte in den besetzten Gebieten 1939-1945. Ed. by Magdalena Bushart, Agnieszka Gąsior and Alena Janatková. Köln-Weimar-Wien 2016 (Brüche und Kontinuitäten 2), pp. 275-307.
Katja Bernhardt: Stil – Raum – Ordnung. Architekturlehre in Danzig 1904 – 1945.Berlin 2015.
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