Petrova bouda

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Peterbaude around 1830
Peterbaude around 1900

Petrova bouda , also Petrovka (German Peterbaude ) was a settlement belonging to the Spindleruv Mlyn area on the Giant Mountains ridge in the Czech Republic . It was located five kilometers north of Špindlerův Mlýn on the ridge trail and about 200 m from the border with Poland . The Peterbaude was one of the oldest buildings in the Giant Mountains. In August 2011 it was destroyed by fire. New buildings have been erected on the foundations of the destroyed building since 2016.

geography

Petrova bouda is located in the middle of the main ridge of the Giant Mountains on the south- eastern slope of the Mädelsteine (Czech: Dívčí Kameny , Polish: Śląskie Kamienie ) in 1288  m nm The settlement originally consisted of several mountain houses that were built around the old Peterbaude over time. After the old Elbe falls ( 1340  m nm ) Petrova bouda is the second highest settlement in the municipality of Špindlerův Mlýn .

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The red symbol on the left is a so-called “ silent sign ”, in Czech Němé značky or Muttichovka , with which the poles of the winter marking on the paths to Petrovka are marked.

history

View of the Peterbaude building around 1911

There has been evidence of a dairyman's hut on the Pittermann family's Sommeralm since 1790. In 1811 Johann Pittermann had a mountain hut built in its place that could be lived in all year round. After its founders, the Pieterleutn , it was later called Pieterbaud . After Johann Pittermann's death, his son Ignaz ran the barn. He sold it to his nephew Johann Zinecker in 1844 for 400 guilders. Ignaz Pittermann continued to live in the building. He was killed in a snow storm in 1849. Zinecker had the Peterbaude made winter-proof with quarry stone masonry with room and chamber in log construction. The increasing number of day trippers prompted Zinecker to set up guest rooms in the attic in 1866. He also developed plans to expand the building operations. In 1877 an imperial and royal telegraph office was set up in the Peterbaude. His son Vinzenz Zinecker, who inherited the Peterbaude in 1884, had a new four-story mountain hotel built below the old chalet between 1886 and 1887 with a grassed flat roof and balconies, which was set into the slope and consisted of stone walls up to the first floor. The outer skin was given a slate cladding with geometric patterns. Common rooms were created on the ground floor and 20 guest rooms on the floors above. With the start of horn sledge tours to Spindleruv Mlyn and later to Agnetendorf and Hermsdorf, the building enjoyed great popularity since the 1890s. In 1901, Zinecker had the old chalet demolished and another 44-room guest house built in its place, which was similar in design to the one below. The functionalist style of the mountain hotel gained nationwide attention and was considered the first modern building in the Giant Mountains. On June 30, 1901, a branch of the kk Post opened in the Peterbaude. In 1910 the first public telephone station was set up in a mining hut in the Bohemian Lands, from which, in addition to calls within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, there was also a connection to the German Empire.

Autumn 2010, looking east

After Vinzenz Zinecker's death in 1913, his wife Anna inherited the building and after her their four sons. Between 1925 and 1929 they had the mountain hotel expanded by a third, also architecturally sophisticated guest house, a viewing terrace laid out and the buildings connected. Together with the Adolf and Spindlerbaude , the owners of the Peterbaude built a power station in the Red Raft ( Červený potok ), which from then on was supposed to supply the three large ridge houses in the central Giant Mountains with light. During this time the settlement reached its prime. Peterbaude had 15 permanent residents and had a house band and its own herd of cattle.

After the Second World War, the German-speaking family Zinecker was accused of being close to the system of National Socialism for accommodating the Protectorate functionaries Karl Hermann Frank and Konstantin von Neurath , and they were expropriated. The Zinecker brothers were expelled to Germany on June 19, 1945 . The nationalized building served as a rest home for the ROH from 1949 (Revoluční odborové hnutí, Revolutionary Trade Union Movement ). The historical slate cladding on the main building was replaced by white Eternit around 1969 , which was not able to cope with the harsh climatic conditions and gradually shattered. From 1983, the main buildings were therefore provided with board cladding.

Fall 2010, coming up the main ridge to the west

A tourist hostel was built in 1960 and a transformer station in 1972. In 1983 the construction of a sewage treatment plant and a parking lot began, the former was completed in 1993. After the privatization, a new electric boiler house was built in 1991, otherwise the frequently changing owners did little to preserve the building fabric. The main buildings, left to the progressive decline, were added to the list of national cultural monuments in 1997 on the initiative of the national park administration. The building operations were discontinued in 2007 due to conditions imposed by the Trutnov District Hygiene Office .

The current owner, the Prague company Snowy Chalet , acquired the Peterbaude in 2008, but let the vacant, insufficiently secured buildings continue to fall into disrepair. The company is owned by businessman Vladimír Kovář, who is also the owner of the large Czech IT company Unicorn . In April 2011, the Vrchlabi municipal office ordered Snowy Chalet to carry out necessary repairs under threat of a fine .

Ruins of the main building after the 2011 fire

Destruction 2011

In the early morning hours of August 1st, 2011, the former mountain hotel burned down; On the evening of July 31, a smoke smell was already perceived in the thick fog at the nearby Vatra hut. The fire brigade was alerted at 9 a.m. at this point the main building and the roof of a second building were already on fire. At 2:30 p.m., the third building also burned. The fire was extinguished at 5:30 p.m.

The fire brigade assumes that there has been an arson attack, as sources of fire have been found in each of the three buildings and, because of the wetness, considers the occurrence of a fire to be unlikely without fire accelerators . During the investigation of the fire site, residues of chemicals were noticed by dogs in four different places. The arsonist has not been identified.

reconstruction

July 2017, reconstruction
July 2017, construction board reconstruction

Since mid-2016, the reconstruction has been carried out on the still existing and still listed foundation walls of the old Peterbaude. The newly built hut will be a little smaller than the one destroyed in 2011; 52 beds will be available in the main building. The new opening is planned for the end of 2019.

Web links

Commons : Peterbaude  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ladislav Pošmura: Nová Petrova bouda se otevře na Silvestra, v extrémním počasí obstála (The new Petrova Bouda opens on New Year's Eve, it has proven itself in extreme weather). zpravy.idnes.cz, January 31, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ↑ Turistická chata - Petrova bouda ÚSKP 12503 / 6-6009 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  3. ↑ Unicorn Homepage - About Unicorn. unicorn.com, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Vlastník Petrovy boudy zrušil plánovanou opravu tři dny před požárem (the owner of Petrova Bouda canceled the planned repair three days before the fire). idnes.cz, August 7, 2011, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  5. ↑ Legendární Petrova bouda v Krkonoších chátrá. Za rok spadne (The legendary Petrova Bouda in the Giant Mountains is falling into disrepair. It will collapse in a year). www.lidovky.cz, February 18, 2011, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  6. ↑ Před požárem Petrovy boudy nařídili památkáři majitelům opravy (Before the fire of Peter Baude preservationists had instructed the owners to repair the building). www.idnes.cz, August 5, 2011, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  7. ↑ Ve Špindlerově Mlýně hoří historická Petrova bouda, příčinou může být úmyslné zapálení (In Spindleruv Mlyn the historic Peterbaude burns. The cause could be arson). www.regionycr.cz, August 1, 2011, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).
  8. ↑ Vladislav Prousa: VKrkonoších zcela shořela památná Petrova bouda (The listed Petrova Bouda in the Giant Mountains burned down completely). www.novinky.cz, August 1, 2011, accessed September 30, 2019 (in Czech).
  9. ↑ Vyšetřovatelé skončili na Petrove Boude, Nasli tam stopy hořlavin (investigations in Peter Baude completed, found traces of flammable chemicals). zpravy.idnes.cz, August 1, 2011, accessed September 30, 2019 (Czech).

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 15 ° 37'  E