Zprávy památkové péče, 2022 (vol. 82), issue 2

Editorial

Věra Kučová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):125  

Half a century since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention

Věra Kučová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):127-148 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.01  

In 2022, celebrations are underway around the world for the 50th anniversary of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, considered one of the most successful programs ever developed by UNESCO. This article aims to contribute to the commemoration of the importance of this international Convention and to highlight the wide range of international cooperation that is based on it. The aim is to recall a number of lesser-known but topical issues related to the Convention, including references to important reference texts, and to describe the various risks facing World Heritage. Against the background of these...

UNESCO World Heritage - between uniqueness and representativeness

Martin Horáček

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):149-162 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.02  

The article reflects on the message of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and the idea of the World Heritage List, recalling the key elements of the creation of the List and commenting on some of the controversial aspects acompanying its existence. These include the tension between the exclusivity and representativeness of properties, between their positioning outside and inside contemporary society at the same time, as well as the programmatic emphasis on material authenticity over its immaterial forms. The Convention requires proof of the outstanding universal value of the nominated property. The 1994...

World Heritage and its reconstruction: threat to authenticity or strengthening of identity?

Věra Kučová, Petra Kroupová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):163-178 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.03  

Recent years of international cooperation in the field of World Heritage have opened up or reinforced issues related to reconstruction activities. At the same time, these are still very sensitive in terms of protecting authenticity, especially in European countries, since the adoption of the Venice Charter, which has been referred to in various national methodologies. Even with the knowledge of the Nara Document on Authenticity, until recently major reconstruction interventions were still perceived as rather extreme or even problematic approaches in the care of tangible cultural heritage. Considering the general importance of the exchange of views,...

Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage versus the World Heritage Convention

Dita Limová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):179-184 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.04  

The article deals with the comparison of two international legal instruments from the field of UNESCO's cultural agenda - the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. It aims to introduce readers to the practices that contribute to the identification, protection, documentation, and presentation of two important segments of cultural heritage. It outlines the genesis of both legal instruments and introduces the reader to carefully formulated definitions and characteristics of immovable and intangible cultural heritage. It focuses on the differences in preservation methods between...

The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Context

Pavel Caban, Petra Kroupová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):185-196 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.05  

The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is the oldest of the six cultural conventions under the auspices of UNESCO and at the same time constitutes the basic regulation of this area of international humanitarian law. The article discusses various aspects of the international law protection of cultural property in armed conflict, including their broader context, as well as the safeguarding of cultural property in peacetime against the effects of an armed conflict and similar crisis situations. The article further outlines problematic elements and open legal and practical issues related to this area...

Europe's famous spa towns - the long road to the World Heritage List

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):197-203 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.06  

In July 2021, 11 spa towns in 7 European countries were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as new World Heritage Site under the title "Great Spa Towns of Europe". These include Františkovy Lázně, Karlovy Vary, and Mariánské Lázně in the Czech Republic, Baden (Baden bei Wien) in Austria, Bad Ems, Bad Kissingen, and Baden-Baden in Germany, Spa in Belgium, Montecatini Terme in Italy, Vichy in France, and Bath in the UK. All these towns are centered on spa centers and districts that have developed around mineral springs. They are characterized by the abundance of parkland and, in particular, the adjacent aesthetically landscaped spa landscape,...

Great spa towns of Europe as an urban phenomenon

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):204-237 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.07  

The Great Spa Towns of Europe, 11 spa towns in 7 European countries, represent an extraordinary urban phenomenon. The documentation submitted to the World Heritage Centre as part of the nomination for inscription on the World Heritage List comprises more than 1500 pages and illustrates the phenomenon of spa towns both in general and individually. It focuses on balneology, social context, and other aspects. A significant proportion of it is made up of mandatory factual information, corresponding to the mandatory structure of such a document. Information on the specific urban development of individual spa towns is scattered in different parts of the...

New insights into the Jáchymov mining water management

Ondřej Malina, Michal Urban

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):238-251 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.08  

The Jáchymov mining water management has always been rather on the edge of interest of mining historians. However, it is a crucial part of local mining practice, without which none of the larger mines could operate from the 16th to the end of the 19th century. Based on an evaluation of detailed airborne laser scanning (ALS) and field survey, this paper presents the remains of at least 14 water ditches with a cumulative length of nearly 22 km, mainly centered around the Svornost, Eliáš and Helena Huber/Josef mines, as well as hundreds of additional meters of waterways that were cut underground. The total length of this system thus surpasses the extent...

The Jizera Mountains Beechwoods became the first natural UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Czech Republic

Jan Plesník

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):252-260 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.09  

The article provides comprehensive information about the first successful nomination of the Czech natural site, the Jizera Mountains Beech Forest, to the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List. The author presents the basic characteristics of this nature reserve, its formation through climate and geomorphology, the exceptional level of intactness and preservation of its ecosystem, and its specific fauna and flora. In a comprehensible form, with regard to the target group of ZPP readers, the author presents the main values of this natural site in the light of the World Heritage requirements that led to the inscription of the reserve on the World Heritage List.

New landscape conservation zone "Žatec hop-growing landscape"

Lucie Radová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):261-268 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.10  

The Žatec hop-growing landscape was declared a landscape conservation zone in 2021. It is also the only landscape conservation area in the Czech Republic characterized by predominantly agricultural use. This landscape unit occupies the area between the villages of Stekník, Zálužice, and Trnovany (Louny district), which has unique natural conditions for growing hops. Thanks to these conditions, the continuity of cultivation of this crop has been established since the early modern period. The protected area also includes the hinterland of the historic villages, which allowed the hops to be processed and stored until they were bought and distributed to...

Cultural heritage in war-stricken Ukraine: Up close and personal

Milena Chorna

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):310-314  

Fórum mládeže světového dědictví a Fórum site managerů světového dědictví

Věra Kučová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):314-318  

Kutná Hora - the golden era of the silver city

Aleš Pospíšil

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):269-283  

The article describes the developments in the World Heritage Site of Kutná Hora in the last decade (2011-2021) and follows up on a similarly focused article published by the author on the pages of this magazine in 2011. As recently as the 1960s, Kutná Hora was characterized by experts as the most structurally endangered town in Czecho-slovakia, but after 1989 political changes brought about a fundamental change in the approach to this unique complex. The imaginary "golden era" of the restoration of the historic city center began with the first decade of the 21st century, when most of the most important monuments were surrounded by scaffolding, and...

The grounds of the Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk on Zelená hora - 50 years of conservation

Zdeněk Chudárek

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):284-295  

It was only thanks to the increased interest in the work of the architect Jan Santini in the 1960s that state institutions began to prepare the restoration of the church. Since the early 1970s, the restoration of the pilgrimage site has been financed exclusively by state subsidy programs and special state contributions. In 1973, the replacement of the tin roofing began, and the subsequent restoration of the facades extended until 1981. Particular attention was paid to the conservation and addition of all the plastic elements of the facades. In 1994, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and a year later the Zelená hora complex was...

Obnova dlažby v poutním kostele sv. Jana Nepomuckého

Tomáš Hanzlíček

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):296-298  

"Vrátit kostelu světlo a zvuk." Rozhovor s Ing. arch. Olgou Čermákovou

Vilém Faltýnek

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):299-303  

15 years of the Support Program for World Heritage Sites

Jiří Vajčner, Monika Eretová, Markéta Meiserová

Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(2):303-310  

One of the many subsidy and contribution programs at the disposal of the Ministry of Culture is the Program of Support for World Heritage Sites. The Program has been announced annually since 2008. The purpose of its establishment was to fulfil the obligations arising from the adoption of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and to ensure support for the monuments of the Czech Republic inscribed on the World Heritage List (hereinafter referred to as the List) and support for monuments for which a proposal for nomination to the List (National Indicative List) has been or will be submitted. Eligible applicants...