Zprávy památkové péče 2019, 79(2):167-172 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2019.2.08
The construction of Czech schools in nationally mixed areas in pre-Munich Agreement Czechoslovakia using examples from the Plzeň region
- NPÚ ÚOP v Plzni
Czech schools from the mixed-ethnic areas of the Plzeň region built between 1918 and 1938 are silent witnesses to the changes the region was forced to undergo in the 1930s and 1940s. At the same time, they are also examples of the architecture of the First Republic and the art of the builders and designers of the time, e.g. Ing. M. Babuška. Building the Czech and Slovak Republics from 1918 to 1938 in all its aspects, including the support of the Czech education system in cooperation with the Central School Foundation, the National Unity of Šumava, and the Czechoslovak state, resulted in a number of new school buildings. In some parts of the region, the effort to spread education in the Czech language was so intense that in many villages around Chotěšov and Stod (now the boundaries of the Plzeň-jih, Plzeň-sever and Tachov districts), for example, there would be two school buildings; one for pupils taught in German and another for the children of parents who wished instruction in Czech. Examples of Czech schools founded in 1918-1938 in villages southwest of Plzeň, where previously only a school with German instruction existed, may be Honezovice (1932), Hradec u Stoda (1923), Chotěšov (1928), Kostelec (1927), Kotovice (1927), Přestavlky (1930), or Zbůch (1932). For the most part, the original school buildings are still still preserved in their original design, although some of them are closed. Many of them also retained the stylistic elements of the architectural window and door openings or perhaps other art-craft constructional or facade elements. They are thus a justifiable enrichment to the region's heritage fund.
Keywords: school architecture, First Republic architecture, Plzeň region, Czech-German border area
Published: June 1, 2019 Show citation
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