Ochrona zabytków w Danii

• Authors: Ambrosiewicz Maciej

Title variants

EN

The Protection of Historical Monuments in Denmark

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The earliest interests in material traces of the past in Denmark date back to the mid-seventeenth century. Not until the beginning o f the nineteenth century did a special order issued by the monarch ensure protection for the first 20 monuments. An inspector o f antiquities was appointed in the middle of the nineteenth century. More than ten years later, a Church Commission was entrusted with sacral monuments. Enormous impact upon the development of social awareness o f the need for the protection of historical monuments was exerted by the Danish museums. Prior to World War I, Danish society protested fervently against the pulling down of a Renaissance building in the centre o f Copenhagen. This event had a decisive influence on the passing in 1918 of detailed regulations which constituted the foundation for the protection o f historical objects belonging to private owners. From that time, legal acts concerning the protection of historical monuments were amended upon numerous occasions. The range of protection was expanded to encompass new groups of objects. A characteristic feature of Danish solutions is the functioning o f several parallel institutions responsible for the protection o f assorted categories of objects. Sacral objects are still the domain of the Church Commission. Royal places and castles are supervised by Royal Building Inspectors. Monuments of architecture and construction as well as archeological objects (burial mounds, megalithic objects, wrecks of ships) are protected by the largest Danish institution of its sort whose functions include responsibility for historical monuments — the National Forest and Nature Agency. The fragmentation o f the conservation services produced numerous hindrances; nonetheless, such a system contains numerous positive elements, worthy of emulation. The protection of assorted categories of monuments is conducted upon the basis of programmes coordinated with state, self-government or private institutions. These programmes are implemented consistently, with proverbial Danish precision. The decentralization and fragmentation of services raise the costs of the upkeep of various conservation services. Denmark is a wealthy country and the taxpayers voluntarily carry the burden o f the maintenance of these institutions; on the other hand, the latter are subject to social control. With all certainty, our Polish authoritative system of protecting historical monuments will have to succumb to democratization and, quite possibly, assume forms similar to the Danish model.

Keywords

PL

ochrona zabytków w Danii; fundacja „Carlsberga”; Królewski Antykwariusz; ochrona dziedzictwa kulturowego w Danii; służby konserwatorskie; działania duńskich konserwatorów; historyczne obiekty zabytkowe Danii

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1996
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52-56

Dates

published

1996

Contributors

author

Ambrosiewicz Maciej

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247