The government should declare 38 new national cultural monuments

Prague - The government is expected to declare 38 new national cultural monuments (NCM) during its meeting on Monday. Among them are, for example, Plečnik's Church in Prague's Vinohrady, the cubist house U Černé Matky Boží, the Avion hotel in Brno, the Primavesi villa in Olomouc, as well as technical structures. Among movable monuments, the highest state protection will apply to a fragment of the Latin translation of the Dalimil Chronicle or the Slovenská strela railway engine from 1936.
    The material that ministers will receive includes a proposal to declare 33 immovable and five movable NCMs from all regions, said Viktorie Plívová from the press department of the Ministry of Culture, which is presenting the proposal. The authority itself has the competence to declare an object or item a cultural monument, while the government declares NCMs. If the cabinet approves the current proposal, the list of NCMs will expand starting July 1 of this year. There would then be 274 national cultural monuments in the country. In recent years, alongside historical buildings, more modern, industrial, and technical structures have also been included among NCMs.
    The declaration of buildings or items as NCMs will not bring new demands on the state budget. All proposed NCMs are currently cultural monuments, and the Ministry of Culture contributes to their restoration or will be involved in providing grants through its monument programs. In the Czech Republic, there are more than 40,000 immovable and nearly 50,000 movable cultural monuments. Information on whether a particular building is or is not a cultural monument can be obtained from the website www.monumnet.npu.cz, managed by the National Heritage Institute.
    The status of NCM, meaning the highest monument protection, means, for example, that in the case of a building reconstruction, much more attention must be paid to preserving its authenticity. This will currently concern, for example, the long-prepared restoration of the Tugendhat villa in Brno or the functionalist Avion hotel, also located in Brno, which should be among the new NCMs. Owners of cultural monuments may face fines of up to two million crowns for poor care, while owners of NCMs may face fines of up to four million crowns.
    The declaration of cultural monuments as NCMs means their reassignment to a higher value category, declaring their extraordinary cultural significance. The current proposal focuses on monuments ranging from 19th and 20th-century architecture to works of art and technical monuments to rural folk culture, ensuring that all the most significant representatives of each group and type are represented among national cultural monuments.
    The second part of the proposed proposal includes an amendment to the government regulation from 1999, which declared the Czech part of the horse-drawn railway of České Budějovice - Linz as an NCM. Its previous definition no longer corresponds to the existing geodetic data due to the division or renumbering of parcels, according to the ministry, and causes problems in practical use. For this reason, a new definition of this NCM is proposed, which does not represent its expansion or reduction; no new part is being declared.

The list of cultural monuments that the government is expected to declare as national cultural monuments on Monday:
    
The following immovable cultural monuments are declared as national cultural monuments:

    a) in the South Bohemian Region
     1. Agricultural estate No. 3 in Krnín,
     2. Vimperk Castle,
     3. The National Stud Farm in Písek;

     b) in the South Moravian Region
     1. Avion Hotel in Brno,
     2. Monastery of Cistercian Nuns Porta coeli in Předklášteří,
     3. Archaeological site of Dolní Věstonice - Pavlov,
     4. Windmill in Kuželov;

     c) in the Karlovy Vary Region
     1. Imperial Baths in Karlovy Vary,
     2. Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Karlovy Vary,
     3. Spa Colonnade in Mariánské Lázně;

     d) in the Hradec Králové Region
     1. House No. 92 "Dřevěnka" in Úpice,
     2. Hydroelectric plant - Les Království dam in Bílé Třemešné;

     e) in the Liberec Region
     1. Farmyard of the castle in Zákupy,
     2. Dlaska's Farm in Dolánky near Turnov;

     f) in the Moravian-Silesian Region
     Former spinning mill building with sample workshop-dezinatura including machinery in the area of the Alois Larisch factory in Krnov;

     g) in the Olomouc Region
     Primavesi Villa in Olomouc;

     h) in the Pardubice Region
     1. Church of St. Bartholomew in Kočí near Chrudim,
     2. Castle with fortifications in Pardubice,
     3. Crematorium in Pardubice,
     4. Church of St. James the Greater in Polička with the birth room of Bohuslav Martinů;

     i) in the Plzeň Region
     1. Červené Poříčí Castle,
     2. Premonstratensian Monastery in Chotěšov,
     3. Water hammer in Dobřív,
     4. Riding school in Světce;
 
     j) in the capital city of Prague
     1. House U Černé Matky Boží in Prague's Old Town,
     2. Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord in Prague's Vinohrady,
     3. Wastewater Treatment Plant in Prague in Bubenči;

     k) in the Central Bohemian Region
     Park and Castle in Průhonice;

     l) in the Ústí nad Labem Region
     Dean's Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Most;

     m) in the Vysočina Region
     1. Štáfl's cottage in Havlíčkův Brod,
     2. Premonstratensian Monastery in Želivě;
 
    n) in the Zlín Region
     1. Cemetery in Střílky,
     2. Fojtství in Velké Karlovice.
    
The following movable cultural monuments are declared as national cultural monuments:

    a) in the South Bohemian Region
    Záviš's Cross from the monastery in Vyšší Brod;

    b) in the South Moravian Region
    Světelský Altar;

    c) in the Moravian-Silesian Region
    Railway motor coach M 290.001 - Slovenská strela;

    d) in Prague
    Fragment of the Latin translation of the Chronicle of the so-called Dalimil;

    e) in the Vysočina Region
    Premyslid Crucifix from Jihlava.