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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41831

Type

conference item

Titre

Ózd : an abandoned industrial site

Langues

English

Auteurs

Vacszi, Piroska

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

4 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 93-96 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

industrial heritage / ironworks / spirit of place / legal protection / dereliction / conservation of historic sites / causes of deterioration / industrial sites / industrial towns / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Hungary

Monuments et sites

Ózd, Hungary

Résumé en anglais

The economic and political circumstances of the almost past twenty years started an extremely quick and massive destruction in legally not protected areas of our industrial cultural heritage: this means the destruction of specific buildings, traditional industrial sites and regions’ characteristics of the industry. Ózd Ironworks is a unique example of Hungarian large scale industrial areas which is dated back to the mid-19th century based on the production of local coal mines. The town and its surroundings shows how industry and social conditions developed simultaneously: the factory which is the traditional centre and the generative power of the town structure with its residential areas and row of public buildings represent a characteristic atmosphere. The spirit of the place can be catched in this town structure and in the living memory of the local inhabitants, in their customs and in the special name of the places. All of these reflect a vanished life in the abandoned scenery of the past. The question is how we can built up again, or keep these social, architectural, industrial, natural and traditional values without the original meaning and background. Namely, in the 1990’s with the change of political regime, large-scale industry ceased to exist in Hungary, leaving significant factories, including Ózd, without work. The once 50-hectare central industrial area has seen many of its buildings demolished and several civic and residential buildings were left abandoned and empty. In the lecture it is shown where one can catch the special atmosphere of the site. a new project worked out by the National Office of the Cultural Heritage is outlined, in which one tries to keep these very complex values of the site.

Document joint

A2-5_-_Vacszi_+_photos.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852