Pre-industrial landscapes of northern and central Moravia

The acceleration of landscape changes in the last two centuries has been caused by the development of industry. The pre-industrial form of the countryside, cities and nature, i.e. from the period before 1850, is known only from paintings and engravings.

Part of it has been preserved in protected areas. Many smaller areas with a characteristic spatial structure of ploughlands, roads, buildings, ponds and forest units were not captured. The team of geographers of the Institute of Geonics of the Czech Academy of Sciences led by prof. Jaromír Kolejka focused their research on the identification of these relics of the original landscape throughout Moravia. Although it sometimes seems that the original form of the landscape can no longer exist, a number of places have been found that have retained their character to this day. The panel exhibition on the second floor of the Přerov chateau presents the results of this unusual research.

Information in the Comenius Museum in Prerov and few samples from the exhibition: