Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(2):201-205
Contributory granary in Chudenice
The village, later town, and today the township of Chudenice is located in the Klatovy district in southwestern Bohemia. Since 1996, Chudenice has been part of a heritage protected area - the Landscape Heritage Zone of Chudenicko. The article is devoted to the building of the contributory granary in Chudenice, founded in 1819. The granary's establishment was preceded by frequent years of poor harvests, to which Emperor Joseph II responded from 1788 by ordering the construction of such granaries throughout the Czech lands. The surviving building plans from 1818 show that the author of the granary in Chudenice was Anton Stolle, builder and master mason for the nobility. It was designed to occupy the center of the large estate of the noble Černín family of Chudenice. Its facades are distinguished only by austere expression (plastic chambranles on the granary windows, cavetto geisons, plastic fabion frame on the upper edges of the gables), thereby demonstrating the particular importance of the functionality of this monobloc building. The structure, however, presents one of the largest granaries in the region, still in its originally preserved layout with its interestingly designed central passage and symmetrically placed straight staircase to the second floor. The granary is the urban landmark for the township of Chudenice and has been preserved without significant secondary structural modifications: This is why the Heritage Authority (NPÚ ÚOP) in Plzeň filed a proposal in 2014 to have it declared immovable cultural heritage. The Ministry of Culture decided against such a declaration in 2015 also due to the poor structural and technical condition of the structure caused by many years of neglect.
The article deals in detail with the broader circumstances and the phenomenon of the emergence of these structures throughout the Czech lands, including the historical reasons for building the Chudenice contributory granary, also providing a current description and analogies of other contributory granaries in the Plzeň Region. It examines the oldest contributory granary of the Plzeň Region in Chocenice from the 18th century as well as the sample designs of granaries by architect J. P. Joendl from 1826 and 1829. The article also deals with the transformation of architectural means of expressions through the facades of granaries in the 19th century using the examples of granaries in Žichovice and Klenová.
Keywords: Chudenice; outbuildings; granaries; contributory granaries; contribution; contributory granary funds; historical trusses; building documentation and evaluation; cultural properties
Published: June 1, 2016 Show citation
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