Krajina po těžbě břidlice očima trampů a táborníků aneb o brownfieldech jinak (Nízký Jeseník)

• Authors: Kupka Jiří , Pohunek Jan

Title variants

EN

Landscape after slate mining through the eyes of Czech tramps and campers or Differently about brownfields (Nízký Jeseník area

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses secondary recreational uses of abandoned slate quaries, dumps and mines in the area of Nízký Jeseník (Czech Republic) focusing on campers and tramps, who colonized this area since the second half of the 1940s. A paralel between such an adaptation of former industrial places and natural succession is presented. An area of Koňský důl (Horse quarry) is used as an example of such a site where mining history, recreational usage, new local names and continuous adaptation of space led to an establishment of a distinctive, well-known place that can still be classified as a brownfield but where its new roles are much more prominent. Local contemporary legends are also mentioned, including a character called Honnbesch, a malicious former German farmer hiding in the underground.

Keywords

EN

Silesia; Czech tramping; tramping; slate mining; brownfields; local names; contemporary legends; recreational usage of landscape

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 134-145

Contributors

author

Kupka Jiří

• VŠB, Technická univerzita, Institut environmentálního inženýrství

author

Pohunek Jan

• Etnografické oddělení Národního muzea