Zprávy památkové péče, 2014 (vol. 74), issue 4

Editorial

Jiří Křížek

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):265

First World War, heritage properties, and conservators

Vratislav Nejedlý

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):267-278

This article deals with the reorganization and transformation of the Central Committee for Heritage Care in Vienna (Central - Commission für Erforschung und Erhaltung der Kunst- und historischen Denkmale), which until 1918 decided on the fate of heritage properties within the borders of the present-day Czech Republic. These changes are described based on available literature, and an attempt is made to clarify them from the perspective of the evolution of heritage conservation. The result is an overview of the reorganization from 1873 until World War One. The article recalls the protagonists of the Central Committee and their goals. It generally notes...

The conservator in the Great War

Jiří Křížek

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):279-282

There were some prominent Czech art historians and conservators who actively participated in the First World War as soldiers of the Austrian army. The surviving personal correspondence of Zdeněk Wirth, Antonín Matějček, and Vojtěch Birnbaum provides personal testimonies of how they had to deal with their dire life situations. For art-oriented intellectuals, the experience of war mostly meant isolation from their homes and families, career interruption, and a fundamental living uncertainty. Influential colleagues and friends who were not sent to the front for professional or medical reasons attempted to call these soldiers back home individually, but...

Quandaries over artistic materials confiscated from the property of the former Austro-Hungarian royal family

Kristina Uhlíková

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):283-292

Under the provisions of the peace treaties concluded after the First World War with Austria and Hungary, the newly created Czechoslovak state gained the property within its territory that had previously belonged to the Habsburg-Lorraine royal family. The nationalization of the Habsburg-Lorraine property included, in addition to vast tracts of land, a number of historic mansions, 17 country houses (chateaux), and one castle. In Bohemia, these were primarily the castles of Brandýs nad Labem, Chlum u Třeboně, Koleč, Konopiště, Ostrov nad Ohří, Ploskovice, Přerov nad Labem, Smiřice, and Zákupy, in Moravia they were Ivanovice na Hané, Hodonín a Židlochovice,...

Art in war, war in art

Renata Skřebská

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):293-302

The aim of this essay is to reflect on the 1920 competition for war memorials to the victims of the First World War and to highlight examples of monuments from Moravia and Silesia as well as some authors who were at war themselves, or who were affected by the loss of a loved one at war. The basic method of research was field surveys compared to contemporary literature and sources.

The share of manufacturing enterprises within the Czech Republic in the construction of Austro-Hungarian battleship fleets

Miloš Matěj

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):303-309

This essay explores the share of manufacturing enterprises within the territory of the present-day Czech Republic in the construction of battleships for the Austro-Hungarian fleet. For clarity, the individual classes of battleship and their basic technical parameters are listed chronologically, including the proportion of manufacturing enterprises in the supply of armored protection and artillery weapons. It concludes with an overall brief character of their operational deployment.

The requisitions of bells in Bohemia during the First World War

Petr Vácha

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):310-313

The lack of ferrous metals for war purposes was initially resolved through collections, followed by requisitions. Bells represented an enormous amount of necessary material.The first requisition began in the second half of 1916 and continued in 1917. Since the lists were not consistent with the reality, some valuable bells that were supposed to have been preserved were removed. Some valuable bells that had already been pulled down were saved, while others were destroyed, even with no documentation, before the decision was made to protect them. Bells were removed either whole or broken up, even directly in the towers, while some were thrown out...

"In the calamity that is to befall our Czech organs…" The requisition of organ pipes during the First World War

Vít Honys

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):314-318

The article addresses the course and impact of the requisition of prospect organ pipes during the First World War in Bohemia with a focus on the dioceses of Litoměřice and České Budějovice. A comparison of source data (especially the "requisition cadaster", working inventories of instruments designated for removal from the requisition) and the actual state of the surviving instruments shows that despite the inadequacy of the submitted data on instruments, which resulted in a lack of protection for a number of instruments which would have deserved protection in the spirit of the issued directives, through the efforts of several conservators and correspondents...

Inter-war memorial art around Jičín and the legacy of architect Václav Weinzettl

Viktor Blažek

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):319-323

Together with the production of the workshops of private sculptors who were active around Hořice in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Hořice Stone Sculpture School, founded in 1884, occupies an important place with its designs and realizations. Since the beginning of its existence, the school stood out with an exceptional educational staff and received a variety of orders for figural and war monuments, reliefs, memorial plaques, and architectural work. Under the leadership of its director Ing. arch. Weinzettl Wenceslas, who led the school from 1905 to 1929, it achieved numerous successes and broad public recognition while enriching...

Field chapels and bags from the Church of St. Ignatius in Prague

Filip Srovnal

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):324-328

During an inventory of the mobiliary of the Church of St. Ignatius in Prague's New Town as part of the Integrated System of Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage (ISO), items were found that belonged, inter alia, among Holy Mass equipment for military chaplains of the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War. There are three field chapels/Mass suitcases (two of which are properly equipped with kits) and four chaplain's bags with equipment for the administration of the sacraments (baptism, holy confession, communion, and anointing of the sick) directly on the battlefield. In addition to these sets, the church also contains fragments of at...

Captain of the gunship of the Imperial and Royal Navy, Johannes von und zu Liechtenstein through the camera lens

Andrej Žiarovský, Valburga Vavřinová

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):329-338

The National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) has been devoting its attention to historical photography since about the beginning of the 21st century, mostly through the execution of various research and scientific projects, tasks, and objectives. So far the largest and most comprehensive research project dealing with historical photographic material which the NPÚ has been involved in is the project "Historical photographic material - identification, documentation, interpretation, presentation, application, care, and protection in the context of the basic types of memory institutions" (code DF13P01OVV007) as part of the National and Cultural Identity (NAKI)...

Vojenský hřbitov kulturní památkou - Lada v Podještědí

Petra Šternová

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):339-341

Statické zajištění a konzervace torza Velké věže hradu Lipnice

Miroslav Hanzl

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):341-343

Konzervace torza Nového hrádku v Praze-Kunraticích

Miroslav Hanzl

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):343-345

Viollet-le-Duc, architetk, teoretik, dokumentátor a restaurátor francouzské gotiky. Ke 200 výročí narození

Vojtěch Storm

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):345-348

Zajímavá kniha Proměny montánní krajiny přibližuje minulost Krušnohoří

Zdeňka Petáková

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):348

Smutek architektury v Židenicích

Ladislav Zikmund-Lender

Zprávy památkové péče 2014, 74(4):349