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Sprzyjające warunki geograficzne doliny Skawicy spowodowały, że od samego początku rozwoju osadnictwa wykorzystywano wody Skawicy do napędzania kół wodnych, a w późniejszym czasie turbin. Napędzały one głównie młyny i tartaki wodne, ale także folusze, kuźnie czy nawet cegielnie. Pierwszy młyn wodny funkcjonował w nowo osadzonej Białej (dziś Białka) co najmniej od 1564 r., gdy lokowana była tutaj wieś...
Watermills were established in places where three types of landscape could be found: the cultural landscape (connected with cultivation or urbanisation), the natural landscape (forest or marshy meadow) and where the original landscape had been preserved (forest). The shaping of the landscape under the influence of the action of watermills most often involved its modification through the introduction...
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