Abstract
This article compares mining and post-mining landscapes on old maps and in modern aviation photography of three regions around the towns of Jachymov, Most and Kladno in Czechia. The three regions differ not only in the type of mining, but also in their historical development and current management. The goal of the article is to compare these regions and evaluate the changes and consequences of mining on the landscape in different time periods using cartographic sources. Another aim is to identify specific landscape elements related to mining by drawing on old maps and state map series of the three regions.
Highlights
Human socio-economic activities have shaped different types of cultural landscapes for centuries
When comparing the cartographic sources, it is possible to see that the landscape right around the historical centre of Jáchymov is labelled as a place of silver mining in the Stable Cadastre
The imprints of mining can be found in many places in Czechia
Summary
Human socio-economic activities have shaped different types of cultural landscapes for centuries. Mining raw materials usually means substantial changes in the environment and it creates a new type of landscapes – mining landscapes. The end of mining can be perceived as a new opportunity to create a post-mining landscape with particular characteristics Such landscape can be, when properly managed, converted and used as a fully-fledged cultural landscape. The scope of this article is to use different cartographic sources to identify landscape elements related to mining in the selected areas and to discuss the use of cartographic sources for research on mining landscapes Another aim is to use selected old maps and state map series of the three regions to present specific landscape elements in the territories and to discuss the possibilities of these products for the study of mining landscapes. Selected regions represent territories that are studied within the project of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic “NAKI II” called: Heritage of Lost Landscapes: Identification, Reconstruction and Presentation
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