Zprávy památkové péče, 2016 (vol. 76), issue 3

Editorial

Jakub Bachtík

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):249  

Actors in a play of destruction. The demolition of old Most and the role of heritage conservation

Matěj Spurný

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):251-264  

The unique story of the liquidation of the old city and the construction of the new city of Most has a number of layers that also characterize it as a typical story of state socialism and the transformation of post-war European modernity as such. This study deals with only one of these layers: society's changing relationship to historical heritage.During the 19th century, the city of Most, in particular the industrial city, became a representative for all the deepening problems of its time: extreme inequality, economic exploitation, homelessness, social divisions, an absence of basic hygiene, and environmental devastation. These were precisely...

Most, the modern housing estate of North Bohemian miners, part I: Creation of the new city during wartime and the post-war period

Jana Zajoncová

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):265-275  

The article attempts to outline the complexity of the entire process of seeking out the appearance of the new Most between 1940 and 1989. It focuses on the city's urban development from the end of World War II, when new residential districts tied to the old city were still forming. It covers the discussions about the necessity of demolishing historic Most in order to exploit the coal deposits beneath the city which resulted in the final decision in 1964 to destroy it. It ends with the final demolition of the most important buildings in the city center in the 1980's.Over the period of several decades, the city of Most found itself at the heart of...

And this is that beautiful country... Destruction of settlements in the Czech Republic in the second half of the 20th century in a Central European context

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):276-288  

The full-scale destruction of the historical part of the royal city of Most for surface coal mining in 1967-1984 is the best-known large-scale destruction of a settlement that took on extraordinary proportions in the second half of the 20th century in the Czech Republic's. Even more settlements disappeared due to the establishment of military zones, the closed border zones, and the ethnic cleansing of the formerly German-speaking borderlands. Other villages and towns disappeared beneath the waters of new dam reservoirs. The article discusses the overall balance of this damage and attempts to find a comparison in central Europe.It is possible that...

Most, the modern housing estate of North Bohemian miners, part II: Building and final construction of the new Most

Jana Zajoncová

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):289-298  

In the 1970's, the city of Most became a direct demonstrative example of the clash between two opposing urban concepts that significantly affected the core areas of the new city. This was a criticism of the hitherto promoted ideal of a functionally zoned city, based on the principles declared by the CIAM organization in 1928 and elaborated in the Athens Charter five years later, in the context of new theories advocated since the early sixties by Kevin Lynch, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Michael Trieb.The main focus of conflict of these ideas lay in the concept of the center of Most that originated mainly in the sixties, when the principles of...

The fates of the organs of the North Bohemian coal mining area

Vít Honys

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):299-306  

The development of surface mining of brown coal in the Northern Bohemia districts of Chomutov, Most, Ústí nad Labem, and Teplice in the second half of the 20th century was also associated with the destruction of a number of churches and collections of preserved organs. Many of the organs were damaged or devastated as a result of the situation arising from the post-war population exchange in the 1950's and 1960's and only a very limited amount without due consideration of historical musical value was recorded into the state-processed list of cultural monuments, despite the expert works from the end of 1965 by J. Pavel and J. B. Krajs. The increasing...

Counter-Reformation landscape of the Baroque Ore Mountain foothills

Jakub Bachtík, Kristýna Drápalová

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):307-316  

The article deals with the Baroque history of the Ore Mountain foothills, specifically the area roughly bounded by the Duchcov dominion and Osek holdings at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. The basic starting point of the article are passages from the German translation of the Marian atlas from the Osek Cistercian monk Augustine Sartoria from 1717, in which the Ore Mountain foothills area, specifically the northeastern extremity of the Most basin, is identified as Marian country. The same metaphor then appears in the contemporary works of other contemporary preachers. The article examines the question of which roots this interpretation of the...

Reconstruction of relief in areas with surface mining of brown coal

Jan Pacina, Kamil Novák

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):317-325  

1. Introduction. Landscapes influenced by open-pit mining are very common in the northwest part of the Czech Republic. Mining activity had a great impact on the landscape structure, land-use development, shape of georelief, and human life in general. In this article we would like to focus on a very significant example of landscape transfiguration caused by open-pit mining. The royal town of Most, established in the 13th century, was destroyed together with the surrounding villages as over 100 million tons of brown coal were mined in this area. The actual intensive mining started in the 1930's and definitely terminated in 1999. The hydraulic reclamation...

Declassified relict cultural landscape of military bases

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):326-336  

With effect from 1 January 2016, the large military training area of Brdy was canceled and included into the currently declared protected area of the same name. Other military districts were more or less reduced (Boletice by 25%, Březina by 5%, Hradiště by 15% and Libavá by 31%). Within these territories, most rural settlements were destroyed by military training, especially in the 1950's and 60's, while others remained as a mere torso or were overlaid with new housing construction for military purposes. Most of the monuments were destroyed or heavily damaged. Natural succession largely obscured the signs of a maintained cultural landscape. Still,...

Nové movité národní kulturní památky

Hana Baštýřová, Radovan Chmel

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):337-339  

Staré zdíkovecké zvony

Radek Lunga

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):339-341  

Europa Nostra 2016

Pavla Hlušičková

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):342-344  

Knihovna Metodického centra moderní architektury v Brně

Eliška Plotěná

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):344  

Ohlédnutí za workshopem k Dolní oblasti Vítkovice

Miloš Matěj, Ulf Ingemar Gustafsson

Zprávy památkové péče 2016, 76(3):344-346