The pre-industrial landscape of Moravia – An unknown cultural heritage
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
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| Description | The pre-industrial landscape in the Czech lands dates back to the period before the main wave of the Industrial Revolution, i.e. prior to the year 1850. Its relics are not, (except for the announced and proposed landscape historical conservation areas), in the Czech Republic recorded. As the pre-industrial landscape and the segments of the pre-industrial landscapes, we consider the current landscape with a preserved secondary structure of the landscape (the land use structure), i.e. with the distribution and share of arable land, permanent crops, forests, roads and trails, or mining areas and aquatic areas that originated and developed in the period preceding the onset of the industrial society in the Czech lands. The identification and mapping of segments of the pre-industrial landscape is based on the comparison of the secondary structure of the landscape (land use) of the stable cadastre (1824-1836) and maps from the Second Military Mapping Survey of Austria Empire (1836-1852) with the current territorial documentation of Moravia on the colour aerial orthophotomaps. The procedure is based on the visual and contextual comparison of the contemporary and ancient secondary landscape structure on-screen. All the materials compared are available in electronic form mutually comparable. The subsequent classification of the comparison results divides the identified pre-industrial landscape segments into three categories – • pre-industrial landscape site (up to 10 ha), • (do 1 km2) pre-industrial landscape area (up to 1 km2), and • Local pre-industrial landscape (over 1 km2). According to the intactness of the landscape then these categories are divided into three qualitative classes: exceptionally well-preserved, well preserved, satisfactorily preserved. The experience of inventory segments in the historical territory of Moravia indicate their relatively high number (usually in the form of crofts), but only a tiny number with a high degree of intactness, which would, however, require a specific management as a rare case of cultural heritage. |