Zprávy památkové péče, 2013 (vol. 73), issue 3

Editorial

Naděžda Goryczková

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):169

New uses for technical and industrial heritage

Eva Dvořáková

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):171-178

Finding new uses for technical and industrial buildings is an issue that concerns not only historically protected buildings, but the entire surviving fund of technical manufacturing buildings and facilities. Approaches towards bringing them to life vary widely and always depend on the structure of each individual building. The fund holds a relatively diverse overall construction potential that has been possible to revive only recently. There are some mistakes that can not be avoided, but in many cases a good path has been undertaken which helps to maintain the original manufacturing buildings through different usage, thus strengthening awareness about...

Do we, or do we not want technical and industrial monuments?

Miloš Matěj

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):179-186

Technical and industrial monuments are currently endangered and are rapidly disappearing, and this trend has been escalating dangerously in recent years. Whether the reasons for this are lucrative land parcels in city centres, expired structural conditions, or the fact that it is easier to demolish something than to preserve it, is a matter of speculation. A solution to this problem, as well as a priority in our opinion, is to identify the important properties as soon as possible and to propose the protection of the most important sites and effectively promote them so that subsequent decisions are under public control.

Technological and industrial heritage as a cultural-historically valuable territories and as part of the historic cultural landscape in the international context

Věra Kučová

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):187-198

The historic cultural landscape in the Czech Republic is closely linked with economic development. Large-scale production and industrial complexes played a role in shaping the image of towns and smaller settlements so much that in many places they form quite iconic constructional landmarks, both in terms of area or height, and often with outstanding architectural quality.This article notes a number of general provisions that exist in the legal system of the Czech Republic and which serve as a basis for designating monuments of technological and industrial heritage and their complexes as subjects of public interest, monuments which fall into the...

Industrial heritage: What's changing?

Benjamin Fragner

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):199-201

For the past years, it is unquestionably crucial that the historical and artistic significance of industrial heritage in the Czech Republic has been professionally and systematically collected, described, and evaluated on a previously unprecedented scale. It was difficult to get to the extent and meaning behind the constructional interventions in monuments of technological and industrial heritage. The discussions held on industrial buildings, as well as their surveys, are undoubtedly behind the greater vigilance and the better-informed treatment of history. Their values and social contexts are being defined and described. The personal experience gained...

Industrial topography of the Czech Republic

Petr Vorlík

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):202-205

The industrial topography of the Czech Republic is a long-term scholarly project of the Research Centre for Industrial Heritage (VCPD) of the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague. The web database interface allows for methodical processing, storage, networking, and evaluation of ongoing general and thematic research of the VCPD for a wide range of collaborators. Its structure is based on the layered interlacing of collected data and displaying it in a wider socio-economic and geographical context, with emphasis on the intersection of the planes of historical context and the current or future potential of industrial heritage.The...

Immovable technical monuments managed by the Technical Museum in Brno

Ondřej Merta

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):206-213

The Technical Museum in Brno has received several technical immovable monuments in situ into its care since the 1970's, and several others were considered. The buildings were gradually reconstructed and opened to the public in cooperation with the NPÚ and other concerned institutions. In most cases, the Museum received buildings which had been stripped of their authentic manufacturing technology before being granted historic protection. This led to the necessity of supplying the technological equipment and specialized museum exhibition equipment that had a thematic relationship to the monuments presented. These include the blacksmith's house in Těšany,...

Frame skeletons of industrial buildings

Tomáš Šenberger

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):214-217

The use of skeleton frame structures is quite common in the contemporary construction of all typologies. Their history, though, is associated with the dawn of the industrial period in the second half of the 18th century and with a new type of building built for the emerging textile industry.

Historical technical equipment of buildings

Tomáš Flimel

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):218-221

The technical equipment of each building forms its important and integral part and deserves the same attention as any other part of the building, and not only during the building's reconstruction but during the actual repair and subsequent operation. As attractive as this equipment may seem from a lay perspective, however, in many cases it unfortunately lies outside the realm of interest.

The pitfalls of salvaging movable technological equipment

Jan Palas

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):222-224

The term "technical monument" is usually understood as simply the building; during the conversion of the building or the modernization of its operation, however, the movable technological equipment that always forms an integral part of the building is seen as an undesirable burden that the owner or investor is usually quick to deal with, often in a drastic way. If the equipment, or at least its most valuable part, can not somehow be preserved in its original location, the only thing left to do is to move and install it in a new location, usually a museum or depository. This method of salvaging historical technology is rather exceptional due to the...

The textile industry in Moravia and Silesia - their values and lack of heritage protection in several examples

Michaela Ryšková

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):225-230

The textile industry used to be one of the main industries in the Czech Republic, with the origins of factory production reaching back to the 1840's. The second half of the 19th century saw massive development - a growing number of factory shops, manufacturing enclaves established along rivers and flumes, individual textile centres built, and the face of the cities transformed. Flax prevailed (with the subsequent processing of imported cotton), as did wool. Developments in the 20th century began from these roots, then the turning point came in the 1990's with the gradual disappearance of this sector.In 2000-2001, as part of ÚOP research in Ostrava,...

The oppressive value of the Czechoslovak state arms factory in Brno

Květa Jordánová

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):231-236

The Czechoslovak state arms factory in Brno, built in 1925-1929, is a unique example of interwar industrial architecture in the Czech Republic, primarily used for the combined mass production of weapons and vehicles. In addition to its traditional architectural and constructional-technical value, the area also offers an extremely interesting insight into the influence of the industrial enterprise and its senior management in shaping the history of the 20th century. The article briefly describes the circumstances of the origin and evolution of Brno's largest current brownfield and outlines the possible development of the area, which so far has no heritage...

Technical monument as a living technological complex, with the high-pressure hydro-electric power station in Liberec-Rudolfov as an example

Petr Freiwillig

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):237-245

This study focuses on the high-pressure hydro-electric power station in Rudolfov (Rudolfsthal) in the Jizera Mountains on the outskirts of the city of Liberec. The station is presented as a good example of a technical monument which includes not only the outer shell, but the entire set of buildings that ensure its operation. Its historical value lies in the actual power plant building from a renowned architect, German engineering college professor Artur Payr (1880-1937), but foremostly as well in the intact preserved complex of the constructional, mechanical, and electrical part of the entire works, realized in the years 1925-1928. The work is significant...

What else shall we demolish? The destruction of the unique water tower at the Studénka train station

Alena Borovcová

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):246-248

On 2-8 April 2013, a unique railway water tower in Studénka was demolished; the absence of prior notification of the demolition was justified by unsubstantiated arguments. The water tower at the Studénka station, which lies on the main line of the former Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (KFNB), was built in 1891 according to a KFNB project type from bare brick walls and fitted with three four-squared riveted tanks. For building production of the 1880's and 1890's, the use of bare brickwork was characteristic in the Studénka station; the Studénka - Štramberk track made extensive use of it at its operating facilities and residential buildings as well...

Structural and technical monuments on the former connecting route of the State Railway Company from Vienna to Brno and Znojmo

Jiří Kacetl

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):249-258

The connecting route of the State Railway Company (StEG) from Vienna through Lava to Brno was one of the main transport routes of the Danubian monarchy until 1918. Its importance declined in the 20th century and it was split by the Iron Curtain, so it became a mere regional route on the Moravian and Austrian sides terminating at the periphery of the borders. This geopolitical situation was particularly evident on the Moravian side through the lesser modernization of the tracks, resulting in the unconscious survival of many relics from the glorious period of the monarchy.The structures and technical buildings on the Moravian stretch of the route...

The disappearing "Brussel style" at the Havlíčkův Brod train station

Ladislav Zikmund-Lender

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):259-262

The station building in Havlíčkův Brod was built between 1969-1981. During this period, the project, exceptional in its original form, underwent significant changes and devaluation of its original aesthetic values due to architectural practices of the time (lack of materials, delayed deliveries, and irresponsibilities due to author anonymity). In comparison to the original proposal, the station's final appearance was altered into a cumbersome layout of materials in the northwest facade and the facade facing the track. Nonetheless, thanks to the unusual interplay of materials on the northwest exterior with its concave curved glazing with irregular colored...

Terminál story: Kauza nádraží v Havířově

Adam Guzdek

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):263-264

Vlněna - historie zániku architektonického a industriálního monumentu průmyslového věku

Aleš Homola

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):264-265

15 let koordinované činnosti nevládních organizací v oblasti industriálního dědictví

Svatopluk Zídek

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):265-266

Zemřel prof. Ing. arch. Emil Hlaváček, DrSc.

Eva Dvořáková

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):266

Dvě konference o poválečné architektuře

Matyáš Kracík, Ladislav Zikmund-Lender

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):267-268

Industrial Heritage Re-Tooled

Jitka Vlčková

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):268-269

Oživlý svět technických památek

Věra Kučová

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):269-270

Kulturní dědictví Severní dráhy císaře Ferdinanda

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):270-271

Kulturní památky Rosicko-oslavanské průmyslové aglomerace

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):271

Industriální topografie

Pavel Halík

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):271-272

Vyšel překlad Charty průmyslového dědictví TICCIH

Ladislav Zikmund-Lender

Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):272