Zaniklá sídla jako místo paměti českého pohraničí
Abandoned settlements as site of memory of the Czech borderland

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the issue of post-war abandoned communities and settlements in the Czech borderland and the current form and function of these places in society and in the countryside. The paper will first describe the development of abandonment and demolition of the bordersettlements in its historical and social context. Most of the extinct settlements in the Czechborderland described were levelled in the first years after World War II or during the reign ofthe communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Most of these settlements were destroyed because ofthe displacement of Germans from the Czech lands, as they remained permanently abandoned.Other settlements disappeared due to the establishment of a border zone or military trainingareas. The study will go on to discuss in more detail the theme of the collective recollection ofthe extinct border settlements from their former inhabitants, in this case mainly among thedisplaced Germans from the Czech lands. In the next part of the study, some specific activitiesto popularize and revive the abandoned settlements that occurred mainly after 1989 and areongoing to the present day will be documented and critically evaluated directly in specificborder regions.

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