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The revitalisation of cultural hereditary buildings in water streams

The paper will analyze the specific aspect of revitalization of water streams - the revitalization of previously constructed buildings in water streams that have cultural hereditary characteristics. That means reconstruction of mill cascades, but also bridges, mills, rafts and other similar abandoned and forgotten hydrotechnic buildings in water streams that have monumental value. Their presence (especially mill cascades) represents the element of possible revitalization of wider river basins and in river water paths they enable the survival of specific ecological societies. The paper will consider their role in the context of providing ecologically acceptable water flow e.g. ecologically acceptable water level. The questions regarding the interrelation between the possible concept of water streams revitalization as totally natural environment and the revitalization in a wider context that includes the elements of cultural and historical heritage was considered in this paper on the example of river Kupa catchment. This is the river and the water streams it's catchment on which mills and mill cascades were integral parts of life of rivers, of inhabitants and represented the value of their cultural landscape even less than fifty years ago. This work suggests that the problem of revitalization should be considered in a wider context that includes also the analysis of possibilities of reconstruction of cultural buildings that is essential for repopulation of these areas and their contents.

revitalization; cultural hereditary; mill; ecology; Kupa

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