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Баштина у кризи - Дворац Шпицер у Беочину
Heritage in Crisis – the Spitzer Castle in Beočin

Author(s): Ana Radovanac
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies
Published by: Центар за хуманистичке науке »Синтезис«
Keywords: heritage; castle; memory; crisis; complexity; history; Spitzer; protection

Summary/Abstract: An attempt to draw attention to the heritage in the crisis on an example of the Spitzer Castle in Beocin is presented in this paper. By recognizing the stratification of this cultural monument, which was ruined and degraded for decades, having lost all of its previous use, certain layers of memory are summarized through the different elements of heritage and its existence through the history; former condition of the building (the family home of the Spitzers’) legislation (history warning), products of the collective memory imbued with the imaginative memory elements (the legend of Nador), the potential and future of the Castle (possible commercialization of the space). The problem of the endangered legacy which survives in spite of the crisis was analized, aiming to establish the right of inheritance and also the final affiliation of the monument.

  • Issue Year: IV/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-84
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian