Zprávy památkové péče, 2018 (vol. 78), issue 5

Editorial

Kristina Uhlíková

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):409  

"Particular and characteristic." Awakening the heritage consciousness against the backdrop of the Prague development plans of the early 20th century

Richard Biegel

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):411-421 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.02  

The history of the transformation and perception of the historic center of Prague was fundamentally influenced by development plans (zastavovací plány) from the beginning of the 20th century. The plans emerged as a result of the initial heated debates on the value of the historic old town and the degree to which it should be preserved. The precursor to the plan was the Prague Sanitization Project (pražská asanace), which involved the general demolition of Josefov and a large part of the Old Town. From an urban and architectural perspective, the project was guided by an idealized vision of a block city which would completely replace the preserved historic...

Peripety of legislative heritage protection during the First Republic

Michal Novotný

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):422-430 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.03  

The period between the proclamation of the Republic on 28 October 1918 and the Munich Agreement on 29 September 1938 can be perceived as a time of efforts by the young nation to manage its own affairs independently, after its former political dependence on Austrian Vienna (or Hungarian Budapest). The issue of heritage protection was also part of this effort.The following text is based on the assumption that one of the ways to better understand the status of heritage care in the society of that period is to study the laws that then existed to protect monuments as well as other legislative attempts. Even though the first heritage law was adopted...

Historic noble settlements and the first land reform

Kristina Uhlíková

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):431-444 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.04  

The nobility in the Czech lands, as elsewhere in Europe, had been the elite of society since the early Middle Ages. Their aristocratic residences always reflected this, despite their physical transformations over the centuries. Fortified and residential castles, country houses, and palaces were the significant landmarks of cities and landscapes as well as their political and social centers. Given the extensive land ownership of their owners, they also served as the agricultural centers for the surrounding regions. This significance finally began to decline only during the second half of the 19th century, but it was not very striking until the beginning...

Architect Dušan Jurkovič as the government commissioner for the protection of heritage properties in Slovakia in 1919-1922

Martina Orosová

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):445-456 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.05  

After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, a small number of Slovak intelligence officers were called into state services to help build the public administrative structures of the democratic establishment. One of them was architect Dušan Jurkovič, who lived and worked in Moravia and was considered to be the most important Slovakian artist and supporter of Czech-Slovak relations. The Minister with Power of Attorney for Slovakia, Vavro Šrobár, appointed him as a government commissioner for the protection of monuments (heritage properties) in Slovakia from 1 April 1919. Dušan Jurkovič had to build a commissariat for the protection of monuments...

Wood carver Bohumil Bek and the Governmental Monument Commission in Slovakia. The beginning of restoration work (1920-1923)

Tomáš Kowalski

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):457-465 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.06  

The wood carver Bohumil Bek (1879-1951) is one of the better known masters in his field in the Bohemian area. In 1909 he established a separate workshop in Kutná Hora specializing in sacred carvings, decorations, and gilding. During its peak period, twenty artisans worked there. Customers included parishes, societies, private people, families, and others.Bek's next phase of activities focused on the conservation and renovation of wooden art works. In 1919, he restored the early Baroque main altar of the St. Bartholomew Church in Pelhřimov. This work was thereafter regarded by all as a reference to his skills, including the authorities responsible...

The parliament, the Letná Plain, and Prague's panorama in the First Czechoslovak Republic

Cathleen M. Giustino

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):466-478 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.07  

The founders of the First Czechoslovak Republic, including President Tomáš G. Masaryk, proudly asserted at home and abroad that their independent government was a democracy. The new country had multiparty rule, a bi-cameral parliament elected by universal adult suffrage, distribution of power among branches of government, and opportunities for the free expression of a plurality of opinions in state and society. Leading Czech politicians worked hard to create images, narratives, and symbols of the fledgling republic's democratic character that could attract powerful western allies abroad and project an appearance of shared civic identity among its diverse...

Restoration of Baroque statues from the attics of the entrance faćade of the Karlín Invalidovna in 1917 and 1919-1920

Marek Pařízek, Jana Pařízková Čevonová

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):479-486 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.08  

The construction of Prague's Invalidovna was carried out in 1731-1737 on the decision of Emperor Charles VI. The architect was Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. The original intention to set statues on the faćade of Invalidovna, as captured on its plans, was reduced and altered during the construction. At present, the sculptural decoration consists of a trophy assembly of sculptures on the western faćade and a set of twelve trophies on the two attics of the northern entrance faćade. Literature dates them to the period of construction in the 1730's and associates them with the workshop of Matyáš Bernard Braun. The use of less common iconography has also been...

My home is my castle. Formation of family housing in Brno 1919-1925. Žabovřesky: from village to garden district

Pavla Cenková, Aleš Homola

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):487-499 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.09  

The article focuses on the process of the formation of a large residential zone in the Žabovřesky quarter of Brno in the first half of the 20th century and focuses on the urban, architectural, and sociological-historical viewpoints. This territory, primarily containing private family houses, was selected as a laboratory sample of the preferences and possibilities of the builders of the new Czech middle class that formed in Brno with the emergence of the Czechoslovak Republic and Greater Brno. The extraordinary building boom was made possible by the generous supportive activity of the state as well as by the first developer entrepreneurs who significantly...

The importance of photodocumentation in the case of the material technological survey of mortar and plaster from Nový Hrádek u Lukova

Vladislava Hůlková

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):500-503 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.10  

The castle of Nový Hrádek u Lukova was founded in the second half of the 14th century by the Moravian Margrave Jan Jindřich as a hunting castle on a rocky promontory above the Thaya (Dyje) River, on the very border of Moravia and Austria. In the 15th century, it was acquired by the Lords of Eitzinger, who changed its appearance the most after the margrave and turned the hunting lodge into a noble residence. The castle's short period of full use ended during the Thirty Years' War, when the castle and the entire estate associated with it was tied to the estate of Vranov nad Dyjí and was occupied and destroyed by Swedish troops. Today, the unique combination...

Survey of interior plasters of the Upper Castle in Bečov nad Teplou

Petr Kuneš, Dagmar Michoinová, Vladislava Hůlková

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):504-510 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.11  

The article presents the results of the material-technological study of plasters from the donjon area and the connecting structure of the Upper Castle in Bečov nad Teplou. In the interiors of the Upper Castle, a wide range of plasters have survived to varying degrees; they span the castle's entire historical development, from the second half of the 14th century to the period of the youngest utilitarian modifications from the 18th century. In this study, samples of most of the identified types of plasters and mortars that cover these periods were examined. The mortar analysis showed that all mortars examined contain very similar aggregates that correspond...

Available method for detecting the water absorptivity and wettability of historic plasters and masonry in situ

Dagmar Michoinová

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):511-514 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.12  

The professional public is becoming increasingly cautious about the inconsiderate and widespread use of modern materials that fundamentally and irreversibly alter the original characteristics of historic building materials and that do not respect the constructional-engineering system of historic structures. This often evokes a conflicting response from unschooled designers or restorers of historical buildings, many of which are heritage protected. The application of bonders, and some fixing agents, which restrict the absorptivity of the masonry or plaster on historic structures, especially structures which are not insulated from rising moisture, is...

"Největší bohatství východních Karpat." Dřevěné cerkve Podkarpatské Rusi v období první republiky

Mychajlo Syrochman

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):515-522 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.13  

Rudolf Hönigschmidt: německý památkář v Československu

Kristina Uhlíková

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):522-524 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2018.5.14  

Jindřich Ambrož (1878-1955): vynikající ochránce přírody a památek západních Krkonoš

Jan Luštinec

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):524-526  

Adolf Träger (1888-1965): malíř, památkář, muzejník a pedagog

Daniela Růžičková

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):526-529  

Renesanční zámek v Horšovském Týně. Analýza stavebních fází na základě výsledků dendrochronologie

Jan Beránek

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):529-534  

Mezinárodní den archeologie 2018

Stanislava Kučová, Jan Pařez

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):534-535  

Proběhl sedmý ročník semináře Památky zahradního umění, jejich historie a současnost

Roman Zámečník

Zprávy památkové péče 2018, 78(5):535