Atlas of Discoveries · 056 Skawce · Zagórze · Lake Mucharz

Mucharz municipality · two villages · three frames

Skawce before Lake Mucharz

These are two separate villages with separate data. Each has three frames: the place before the reservoir was filled, the transformation and today’s trace. Where the source pack is silent, the frame is left empty and says exactly what is missing.

Skawce

Frame I · 2 of 4 dimensions described

The former place

Skawce before filling · date of photograph or plan: not in the pack

Diagram: the Skawa valley before filling, Skawce V-shaped valley cross-section with a flattened floor. On the floor, a hatched band marks the general extent of the buildings. The number and layout of the houses are not known. Schematic drawing, not to scale.
Our own diagram, not to scale. The hatched band is the general extent of the buildings on the valley floor; the number and layout of the houses cannot be read from the drawing.

Pictorial evidence · empty field

Not in the pack. Needed: a photograph or plan of Skawce on the valley floor, with a date and the extent of the frame. The absence of a photograph does not mean nothing was there.

Name
Per the packVillage chartered in 1422 (Municipality history).
Residents
Not in the packNo figure or names from before filling.
Address
Per the packMain built-up area on the floor of the Skawa valley, within the reservoir basin (the Study, pp. 7 and 33).
Built fabric
Not in the packNo record of individual houses and wayside shrines.

Frame II · 2 of 4 dimensions described

Filling the reservoir

Skawce · the moment of transformation · year and stages of filling: not given in the pack

Diagram: the reservoir basin in the Skawa valley, Skawce The same valley cross-section. Water, marked with horizontal lines, fills the floor. The orange dashed outline shows the place of the former buildings; the drawing does not settle what happened to them. The water level is conventional.
Our own diagram, not to scale and without the real water level. The orange outline is the place of the former buildings; their fate remains undetermined.

Pictorial evidence · empty field

Not in the pack. Needed: a document or photograph from the period of resettlement and filling, with a date. We do not insert a generated photograph of the construction.

Name
Not in the packNothing on the official status of the name at that moment.
Residents
PartlyThe Borowina Skawiecka estate was prepared for the displaced (the Study, p. 7). No figure or list is given.
Address
Per the packThe former buildings ended up in the reservoir basin (the Study, pp. 7 and 33).
Built fabric
Not in the packWhat was demolished, moved or left behind is not known.

Frame III · 3 of 4 dimensions described

Today’s trace

Skawce · as of 31 December 2025 · Mucharz municipal register

Diagram: Skawce today, the Borowina Skawiecka estate above the water The same valley cross-section with water on the floor. The orange dashed outline still shows the place of the former buildings. The black band on the right slope, above the water, marks the Borowina Skawiecka estate; its position in the drawing is conventional.
Our own diagram. The black band is the Borowina Skawiecka estate, outside the reach of the water according to the Study; its place in the drawing is conventional, and this is not a map.

Pictorial evidence · off the page

Photograph of the basin landscape: Lake Mucharz, 29 April 2020, low water level (Jakub Hałun, Wikimedia Commons). It shows the lake, not the former buildings. We do not embed it on the page, only link to it.

Name
Per the packSkawce in the Mucharz municipal register (Demographics 2025).
Residents
Per the pack445 registered residents on 31 December 2025: the present situation, not the number of people resettled.
Address
PartlyThe Borowina Skawiecka estate on the boundary of Mucharz and Skawce (the Study, p. 7). Where exactly the 445 people live is not in the pack.
Built fabric
Not in the packWhether traces of the former buildings remain on the ground, the pack does not say; the photograph of the lake does not show it.

Zagórze

Frame I · 2 of 4 dimensions described

The former place

Zagórze before filling · date of photograph or plan: not in the pack

Diagram: the Skawa valley before filling, Zagórze Asymmetrical valley cross-section: a steep left bank, the floor and a more gently rising right slope. On the floor, a hatched band marks the general extent of the buildings. The number and layout of the houses are not known. Schematic drawing, not to scale.
Our own diagram, not to scale. The hatched band is the general extent of the buildings on the valley floor; the number and layout of the houses cannot be read from the drawing.

Pictorial evidence · empty field

Not in the pack. Needed: a photograph or plan of Zagórze on the valley floor, with a date and the extent of the frame. The absence of a photograph does not mean nothing was there.

Name
Per the packFirst mention in 1389 (Municipality history).
Residents
Not in the packNo figure or names from before filling.
Address
Per the packMain built-up area on the valley floor, within the reservoir basin (the Study, p. 33).
Built fabric
Not in the packNo record of individual houses and wayside shrines.

Frame II · 1 of 4 dimensions described

Filling the reservoir

Zagórze · the moment of transformation · year and stages of filling: not given in the pack

Diagram: the reservoir basin in the Skawa valley, Zagórze The same asymmetrical cross-section. Water, marked with horizontal lines, fills the floor. The orange dashed outline shows the place of the former buildings; the drawing does not settle what happened to them. The water level is conventional.
Our own diagram, not to scale and without the real water level. The orange outline is the place of the former buildings; their fate remains undetermined.

Pictorial evidence · empty field

Not in the pack. Needed: a document or photograph from the period of filling, with a date, and a mention of where those displaced from Zagórze went. We do not insert a generated photograph of the construction.

Name
Not in the packNothing on the official status of the name at that moment.
Residents
Not in the packThe pack names no estate for those displaced from Zagórze, nor their number. This is a gap, not proof that there was no estate.
Address
Per the packMain built-up area within the reservoir basin (the Study, p. 33).
Built fabric
Not in the packWhat was demolished, moved or left behind is not known.

Frame III · 3 of 4 dimensions described

Today’s trace

Zagórze · as of 31 December 2025 · Mucharz municipal register

Diagram: Zagórze today, scattered buildings on the slope The same asymmetrical cross-section with water on the floor. The orange dashed outline still shows the place of the former buildings. Four separate black squares on the right slope, above the water, mark scattered buildings; their number and position are conventional.
Our own diagram. The separate squares are scattered buildings on the slope according to the Study; their number and place are conventional, and this is neither a map nor a count of houses.

Pictorial evidence · off the page

Photograph of the basin landscape: Lake Mucharz, 29 April 2020, low water level (Jakub Hałun, Wikimedia Commons). It shows the lake, not the former buildings of Zagórze. We do not embed it on the page, only link to it.

Name
Per the packZagórze in the Mucharz municipal register (Demographics 2025).
Residents
Per the pack29 registered residents on 31 December 2025: the present situation, not the number of people displaced.
Address
PartlyThe Study describes scattered buildings on the slopes of Jaroszowicka Góra (the Study, p. 7). The pack does not give the addresses of the 29 people.
Built fabric
Not in the packWhether traces of the former buildings remain on the ground, the pack does not say; the photograph of the lake does not show it.

described in the pack (to be checked) partly not in the pack (dashed mark). On a wide screen the width of a frame corresponds to the number of dimensions the pack describes at all (even partly) – not to the importance of the village. On a narrow screen the frames have equal width, and that number is given in the frame heading (e.g. ‘2 of 4 dimensions described’). The drawings are our own diagrams, not to scale.

Where does the thread break?

Choose two frames. For each of the four dimensions you will see whether the source pack links them with evidence, indicates a change (to be checked), or is silent – in which case the line breaks off and a further question stands beneath it.

I – the former place · II – filling · III – today’s trace

Skawce · frame I → frame III

Skawce · frame I → frame III. Of four dimensions: continuity – 1, change – 1, gap in the pack – 2.

  1. Name

    Continuity per the pack The name endures: the village was chartered in 1422 (per the Municipality history), and was entered in the register in 2025. This is continuity of the name, not of the buildings.

  2. Residents

    Gap in the pack Today 445 residents, earlier no figure. No comparison is possible, and no continuity of families can be shown.Further question: Does any document describe which of the former residents live here today?

  3. Address

    Change per the Study – to be checked The former centre lay in the reservoir basin, while the Study describes the Borowina Skawiecka estate outside the water: these are different places. Where exactly today’s 445 people live, the pack does not say.

  4. Built fabric

    Gap in the pack No data at either end. The absence of a mention in the pack proves neither demolition nor survival.Further question: Which buildings survived, disappeared or were moved – and where is this recorded?

  • Solid line: the pack links both ends (to be checked in the source).
  • The ≠ sign: the pack (per the Study) indicates that the place has changed – to be checked.
  • The ? sign: the line breaks off because the pack is silent. The dotted segment and the node with a dashed edge mean a lack of evidence, not proof that nothing happened.

What these frames must not be read to say

Skawce

  • The Borowina Skawiecka estate was built for displaced residents (the Study, p. 7). This is not proof that any particular house or wayside shrine was moved.
  • If someone claims that a house stands untouched under the water, the pack allows this to be neither confirmed nor refuted. The line breaks off, and it should stay that way.
  • The 445 people are those registered today, not descendants or the number of people resettled.

Zagórze

  • The Study describes scattered buildings on the slopes of Jaroszowicka Góra. It does not follow that anyone moved there from the valley floor, or that this is a ‘relocated Zagórze’.
  • The absence of a mention of an estate for Zagórze in the pack is a gap, not proof that there was no such estate or that the residents vanished.
  • The 29 people are those registered today. We draw no conclusions from this about the fate of the former residents.

For both villages

  • The endurance of a name is not the endurance of buildings. Both villages are still in the municipal register; the main built-up areas of their former clusters on the valley floor ended up in the reservoir basin. We do not declare either of them extinct.
  • A missing document in the pack is a gap in this pack. State archives, surveying archives and the investor’s archives may hold more; they were not checked.
  • Skawce and Zagórze have separate data and are not interchangeable here.
  • The construction also required relocating the valley’s road route and railway lines (the Study, p. 33). The network of connections changed, not only the buildings; this page does not draw their course.
  • This page is documentary in character. The reservoir crest, dykes and embankments are subject to regulations; we do not encourage anyone to walk onto the exposed, boggy bed or to step onto the tracks.

Sources and verification status

  1. Studium gminy Mucharz 2018 (PDF) [Mucharz municipality land-use study], pp. 7 and 33 The basis for the reservoir basin, the Borowina Skawiecka estate, the buildings on the slopes of Jaroszowicka Góra and the relocation of the road route and railway lines. Page numbers carried over from the previous version – they need checking.
  2. Historia gminy Mucharz [History of Mucharz municipality] Skawce chartered in 1422, Zagórze known since 1389. The dates describe the history of settlement, not the age of houses. To be checked.
  3. Demografia w gminie Mucharz 2025 [Demographics in Mucharz municipality, 2025] 445 residents of Skawce and 29 of Zagórze on 31 December 2025. The present situation; it does not describe the flooded buildings or resettlement. To be checked.
  4. Lake Mucharz, 29 April 2020 – Wikimedia Commons Author: Jakub Hałun; licence according to the file description: CC BY-SA 4.0. The file is not embedded on the page (offline work) – only a link. It shows the low water level and the landscape of the basin, not the former buildings. The dates, description and licence need to be checked.

The links were carried over from the previous version of the page. In this version they were not reopened or verified; this is a documentary study based on the supplied material, not an expert opinion. The labels ‘per the pack’ and ‘per the Study’ mean that the fact comes from the supplied material, not that it has been checked here.

What changed from V2
  • The claim verifier and the local register were removed. They were replaced by the comparison of frames and an explanation for each specific village; this version stores nothing in the browser. The ‘atlas-v2-56’ key from the previous version may have remained in the browser’s storage and is not read here.
  • The hypothetical ‘wayside shrine’ diagram was removed. The evidence gap is shown on two real villages rather than on an invented object.
  • The ‘road route and railway’ tab was shortened to one sentence in the limits section.
  • Retained: the three states, the separation of name, residents, address and built fabric, the distinction between Skawce and Zagórze, the figures, the source links, and the principle that a gap in the pack proves neither destruction nor survival.