Labská bouda

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The Labská bouda ( dt. Elbbaude , formerly Elbfallbaude ) is a mountain cottage in the Czech part of the Giant Mountains in the core zone (zone 1) of the National Park Krkonošský národní park . It is located near the Elbe Falls at 1340  m nm

history

Historic Elbfall chalet above the Elbe falls

The original Elbfallbaude, built in the mid-19th century and rebuilt in 1878/79, burned down on November 6, 1965. On June 12, 1969, the foundation stone for a new nine-storey building designed by the architect Zdeněk Říhák was laid. It opened on November 15, 1975.

New building

Until 1996 the building was managed by the state company Krkonošské Hotely (dissolved in 1999), which mainly housed holidaymakers from the state union ROH. After 1989, the hotel and restaurant were closed for a few years (a small snack bar was open at times). In 1996 part of the state property managed by Krkonošské Hotely was privatized and Labská bouda was acquired by the trucking company Pumr & Ryba from Lázně Bělohrad .

From 1998 the new owners carried out maintenance and modernization work on the building. Among other things, the damaged loggias on the front of the hotel were removed and large glass walls were replaced with plastic windows. The hut was reopened on New Year's Eve 2004. Since 2007, the owners have offered Labská bouda for sale through a real estate agency. In the same year they entered into negotiations with the Czech Ministry of the Environment, which wanted to buy the building, tear it down and replace it with a smaller building. An article on the news portal iDNES.cz from 2007 quotes the then director of the Krkonoše National Park, Jiří Novák, as saying: "Such an object does not fit into the strictest protection zone of the park. Neither in its appearance nor in its size, that The place where the Labská bouda is located today should be nothing. " In 2011 the Ministry of the Environment and the National Park Administration resigned from these plans in view of the estimated demolition costs of 90 million crowns.

In 2012 the building was sold to the company Salvario Holdings Limited, founded in the same year and based in Cyprus. The hotel and restaurant have since been managed by the Prague company AEZZ , which signed a 20-year lease with the owner in 2012. The AEZZ is also the owner and operator of the Wiesenbaude . The new owner had further renovations carried out on the rooms; the heating was switched from oil to wood and a sewage treatment plant was built.

In the Czech press the Elbbaude was described as “monstrosity”, “megalomaniac”, “concrete scarecrow” and “one of the greatest horrors of the Giant Mountains and the region”. On the other hand, there have been efforts since 2013 - so far unsuccessful - to place the building under a preservation order as an outstanding example of Czech architecture from the sixties.

In autumn 2018 the Labská bouda closed for renovation work in the restaurant; it should be reopened for the 2019 summer season. The thermal insulation and redesign of the facade have also been planned for a long time. It is not yet clear when this work will take place.

details

The nine-storey concrete building of Labská bouda is integrated into the slope in such a way that access is via the top floor. The technical facilities are located on the lower two floors, above are five floors with hotel rooms, the gastronomy occupies the upper two floors. The hut has 79 rooms, a restaurant and a self-service buffet and can accommodate 120 guests.

The architectural style of the building is described in the National Catalog of Monuments of the Czech Republic as being influenced by ideas of late modernism and brutalism ; however, the building is not a listed building. Zdeněk Říhák (1924–2006), the architect of Labská bouda, designed other hotels in the national parks of what was then Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and 1970s, including the "Horizont" in Pec pod Sněžkou .

NZ Labská bouda.svg

The red symbol on the left is a so-called " silent sign ", in Czech Němé značky , with which the poles of the winter marking to Labská bouda are marked.

Web links

Commons : Labská bouda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage Labská bouda. www.labskabouda.cz, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ^ History of Labská bouda. www.labskabouda.cz, accessed on September 29, 2019 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Krkonošské Labské boudě chátrá fasáda, část zkusmo opraví horolezci (The facade of the Labská bouda in the Giant Mountains is dilapidated). www.idnes.cz, June 29, 2015, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  4. ↑ Entry in the commercial register of Krkonošské Hotely. rejstrik.penize.cz, accessed on September 29, 2019 (cz).
  5. ↑ a b Ochranáři chtějí koupit a zbourat Labskou boudu (environmentalists want to buy the Elbbaude and tear it down). www.idnes.cz, October 31, 2007, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  6. ↑ a b c Labská bouda  in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  7. ↑ a b c Labská bouda se bourat nebude. Párek je tam za 70 korun (The Elbbaude will not be demolished. A sausage there costs 70 crowns). www.tyden.cz, August 16, 2011, accessed September 29, 2019 (in Czech).
  8. ↑ Ondřej Stratilík: úrady chtějí Labskou zbourat Boudu. Architekti protestují (authorities want to demolish the Elbbaude. Architects protest). www.lidovky.cz, July 24, 2010, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  9. ↑ Filings for Salvario Holdings Limited, Cyprus. opencorporates.com, accessed September 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Ondřej Stratilík: Monstrum prodáno. Labskou boudu koupila firma se sídlem na Kypru (The monster has been sold. A company based in Cyprus has bought the Elbbaude). www.lidovky.cz, November 5, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  11. ↑ a b c Labská bouda bude až do května uzavřená (Elbbaude is closed until May). www.ceskenoviny.cz, November 5, 2018, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  12. ↑ a b Kateřina Vítková: Památkáři chtějí Labskou boudu chránit, nájemce to překvapilo (conservationists want to protect the Elbbaude, tenants are surprised). www.idnes.cz, February 5, 2013, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  13. ↑ Vladislav Prouza: Labská bouda či Horizont památkou? Experti jsou pro, ministerstvo proti (Elbbaude or Horizont under monument protection? Experts are in favor, ministers against). www.novinky.cz, June 7, 2018, accessed September 29, 2019 (in Czech).
  14. ↑ Kateřina Vítková: Pryč s betonem: Labská bouda bude ze dřeva. Nebo z mechu? (Down with the concrete: The Elbbaude will be made of wood. Or of moss?). www.idnes.cz, July 2, 2013, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  15. ↑ Zdeněk Řihák. www.bam.brno.cz, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Czech).
  16. ↑ Hotel Horizont  in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 12.7 "  N , 15 ° 32 ′ 46.3"  E