Architectural Heritage and Monument Preservation in the Industrial Landscape of the Coal Basins of Northwestern Bohemia

The proposed three-year project for SGS is based on the dissertation topic of Ing. arch. Mario Barra, "The Role of Heritage Conservation in the Industrial Landscape of the Coal Basins of Northwest Bohemia." The aim of the project is to map existing archival and other sources related to the topic of the North Bohemian coal basins during the research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation (in the area of heritage conservation's response to the topic of the North Bohemian coal basins, discussions on this issue in professional journals - e.g. Zprávy památkové péče, Památky a příroda, or Památková péče: orgán Československé památkové péče, as well as regional press and other sources) and heritage-valuable movable and immovable objects affected by surface brown coal mining in the Most region. These materials are located in various archives in the Czech Republic (National Archive of the Czech Republic, State Regional Archive in Litoměřice), as well as at the workplaces of the National Heritage Institute (general directorate, regional professional workplace in Ústí nad Labem) or in the archives of local and regional governments, state administration, industrial enterprises, etc.; an indispensable source of materials is also the Lobkowicz Archive in Nelahozeves. The aim of the research is not only to confirm the doctoral student's research questions but also to bring the topic of the history of today's brown coal basins closer to the professional and lay public. The doctoral research is planned to be followed by the preparation of a research centre at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, supporting the activities of the Institute of Heritage Conservation and focusing on topics related primarily to the issues of settlement memory and cultural landscape, not only from a heritage perspective but also from a natural, landscape, demographic, social, or historical perspective. Cooperation with other faculties of the Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Civil Engineering - Department of Architecture - research on industrial areas and regions, Faculty of Information Technology - creation of websites, applications, maps, etc.), as well as with the Czech University of Life Sciences (landscape and settlement issues), Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (history, documentation of landscape and cultural heritage), Charles University (geography, demography), workplaces of the National Heritage Institute (heritage conservation) or the Transformation Centre of the Ústí Region (for possible further use of outputs processed within this research and dissertation) is considered.