Monument value
The monument value describes the fact that an object, ie a "preserved work of art that bears testimony to a previous culture", is found to be worth protecting, ie to be placed under monument protection as a monument , to remain there or to be taken out of it after changes. Objects of value (e.g. cultural monuments or architectural monuments ) are inventoried and recorded in monument lists. These lists are work lists of the monument protection authoritieswho continuously check the objects they contain on the basis of a scale of values, for which "a scale of values recognized throughout Germany [has developed] as a benchmark, the level of which is consolidated and stocky by court rulings."
The international basis of monument value was laid down in charters of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) . The decisive factors are the Venice Charter (for buildings), the Florence Charter (for gardens and landscapes ) and the Washington Charter (for historic settlements and urban areas). Also of importance is the Burra Charter adopted by the Australian National Committee of ICOMOS , according to which monument value means: " Aesthetic , historical , scientific or social values for past, present and future generations".
Various reasons for the existence of a public interest in the preservation and protection of a monument influence the monument value. These include:
- special historical value (e.g. graves of outstanding people)
- special artistic value (e.g. objects important for art history)
- special scientific importance (e.g. objects from research history or ground monuments such as fossils)
- special significance in terms of urban development or the appearance of the town (e.g. old villages or workers' settlements from the time of industrialization)
- special significance for the history of work and production conditions (e.g. old industrial plants)
- special folklore or local history significance (e.g. typical regional structures such as half-timbered houses)
- special significance in terms of technology history (e.g. historical grinders of old mills)
- special landscape design importance (e.g. historical palace gardens)
- others depending on the wording of the German state monument protection laws
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument, the. In: Duden , accessed on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ Rosemarie Pohlack : Diversity and Values of the Saxon Monument Landscape , accessed on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ Charter of Florence. Retrieved December 14, 2017 (German translation). Original Charter of Florence. ICOMOS, accessed December 14, 2017 (English, French , Spanish ).
- ↑ Burra Charter. December 1998, accessed December 14, 2017 (German translation). Original The Burra Charter. ICOMOS, 1999, accessed on December 14, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Charter on the conservation of objects of cultural importance (Burra Charter), Article 1, Paragraph 2.