Pre-industrial landscape of the Jeseníky region as a natural and cultural heritage
Pre-industrial landscape of the Jeseníky region as a natural and cultural heritage

Author(s): Jaromír Kolejka, Eva Nováková
Subject(s): Cultural history, Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Environmental Geography, 19th Century
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: terminology; regional specifics; inventory; geo-analysis;
Summary/Abstract: Small parcels of agricultural land are rare in the present landscape of Czech Republic and become the subject of interests of the state protection of the nature, the landscape and the environment. At the same time, such areas represent interesting subjects for the local administration as attractive tourist object. In the historical territory of Moravia (the eastern 1/3 of the Czech Republic), a regional inventory of areas with preserved ancient land use structure was carried out on all individual cadastral territories (focused not only on small parcels, but also on large aristocratic estates on agricultural and forest land originated before the main wave of industrial revolution Moravia, before 1850. The sites are still subjects to topic economic pressure on land consolidation. Their existence in the future is under threat and is decreasing every year both in number and size. The inventory results are presented on example of the Jeseniky region.

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