Tančírna Račí údolí
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The Tančírna Račí údolí (German Georg's Hall , also Georgshalle ) is a former Art Nouveau excursion restaurant with a dance hall and boarding house in the Račí údolí (Cancer Ground) near Javorník (Jauernig) in the Czech Republic . According to the plans of the master builder from Jauern, Alois Utner jun. (1857-1908) and completed in 1907 was named after the client, Prince Bishop Georg Cardinal von Kopp, named and served its original purpose until the 1950s. After nationalization in 1954, the Tančírna was used by various institutions and companies for wear and tear. The renovation of the listed building by the current owner, the municipality of Bernartice , was completed in 2015.
geography
The Tančírna is located two and a half kilometers south of Javorník on the edge of the nature reserve "Račí údolí" near the hamlet of Račí Údolí (Cancer's Ground) in the Reichenstein Mountains . It lies on the left side of Račí potok (Cancer Stream) at the entrance to Račí údolí (Cancer Ground). To the west rise the rocks of the Čertovy kazatelny (Devil's Pulpit); to the south-west lie the Rychleby castle ruins and the desert Pustý zámek castle . To the east is the village of Uhelná (Sörgsdorf) and to the south is Červený Důl (Rothengrund).
story
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At the end of the 19th century, the scenic Krebsgrund with its rocks and castle ruins was increasingly visited by day trippers. At that time there was a wooden steam saw on the site of the Tančírna in the lower Krebsgrund, opposite it an officials' house and below a small bakery with a laundry at the Krebsbach; All of these properties belonged to the Freiwaldau domain estates of the Diocese of Breslau , based at Johannesberg Castle .
Prince Bishop Georg Cardinal von Kopp had the steam saw demolished at the beginning of the 20th century and from 1903 a tourist restaurant with guesthouse was built there, surrounded by a park with rhododendrons, ornamental trees, rocks and stylish seating. The elaborate and representative upper floor for the dance hall was completed in 1906–07. The restaurant, named Georgs-Halle after the cardinal , was electrified from the start.
Kopp also had the officials' residence on the other side of the street converted into an inn and had a stable boy's house and horse stables added to its right-hand side. The "Jägerstube" restaurant was set up in the bakery in 1906. The objects were operationally linked. The restaurant and tavern license was granted to the diocese on December 17, 1906.
Georgs Halle developed into a popular destination for the residents of the town of Jauernig and the surrounding villages. More houses were built in front of the entrance to Grund – the Krebsgrund summer resort was created; together with Georgs Halle , a total of five taverns and restaurants were managed in Krebsgrund. On Saturdays there were amusements in Georg's hall , on Sundays tea dances . The Second World War brought excursion traffic and dance events to a standstill. After the end of the war and the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , the events in Georg's Hall, which was then given the Czech name Tančírna (dance floor) , were resumed by the pre-war tenant Alois Měsíc from Bystřice pod Hostýnem . This changed in 1954, when Tančírna , which was still owned by the Roman Catholic Church, was nationalized and transferred to the legal ownership of the Jeseník District National Committee, Education Department. For half a century, the Tančírna remained inaccessible to the public.
The Czechoslovak State Forests , JZD Javorník and finally the Czechoslovak State Railways followed as owners . The rooms on the ground floor have been used by the Javorník Hunting Association since 1970, which fenced off part of the park and built artificial structures for hunting in it. During this time, the property was only used, but the necessary maintenance was omitted. When the railway lost interest in the run-down object in 2006, the city of Ostrava expressed its interest in buying it for the purpose of moving it to the vicinity of the castle in Slezská Ostrava . Later, the municipality of Loučná nad Desnou was also interested in the Tančírna - also with the intention of implementing it. A return to the church was also under discussion. The sale took place in 2007 to the nearby municipality of Bernartice , which assured the preservation of the historic site, but initially only saw itself in a position to carry out emergency repairs. The town of Javorník, on whose territory Tančírna stands, showed no interest. After the municipality of Bernartice received funding for the true-to-original restoration of the Tančírna in 2014 , work began in the same year. On July 24, 2015, Tančírna was officially opened as a cultural and information center for the municipality of Bernartice. Since then, the Tančírna has been used for concerts, exhibitions, lectures, dance evenings and readings. A permanent exhibition on the Reichenstein Mountains is housed on the first floor.
The former stable boys' house now serves as a gamekeeper 's house .
structure
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The Tančírna has a rectangular floor plan, with the gable ends being narrower. The axis of the building runs north-east/south-west. In front of the north-west facade, an open terrace was laid out from the street above the level of the ground floor, from which a flight of stairs leads to the upper floor. The building is surrounded by a park.
The architecturally unique Art Nouveau dance hall and the park, which is valuable in terms of composition and species, are protected as cultural monuments.
ground floor
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The brick ground floor with a separate entrance was divided into two main parts. In the northern part there was a spacious kitchen, the bar and a preparation room. The southern part included the pantry, two living rooms and social rooms. An elevator transported the food and drinks to the hall above. The extension contained two more rooms. Today there is a lounge and a café with an information center on the ground floor.
room
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The large dance hall on the upper floor, which is accessible via a stone flight of stairs, formed the main room. It was a wood and glass structure over 20 m long and surrounded by a wooden porch. Instead of the broken stone staircase, a wooden staircase now leads to the hall.
The paneling was painted in colour, the beams were decorated with vines and other plastic ornaments. Colored stained glass in shades of blue and green decorated the windows. The middle skylights of the gable sides contained representations of the coat of arms of Prince Bishop Kopp and another coat of arms. Today the coat of arms windows show the municipal coat of arms of Bernartice .
Today the hall is used for concerts, readings, dance performances, workshops and weddings.
park
The natural landscape park was created in 1903 together with the stone ground floor of Tančírna. Only the central part in front of the outside staircase was designed with regular elements. The north-eastern, lower part of the park between the road to Ober Forst and the Krebsbach was only planted with a few conifers in order to offer visitors an unobstructed view of the decorative gable end of Georg's hall . A staircase led from this part through rocks to the open terrace in front of the restaurant. About two thirds of this area was taken up by the outside seats, the rest consisted of two square lawns with trees planted axially to the building. The left bank of the stream was lined with a row of alder trees. The south-western part of the park extended to a sycamore maple in the Krebsgrund forest, which was already mighty at the time.
A circular path lined with thujas, yews and deciduous bushes was created along the property boundary, which guaranteed walkers a view of Georg's hall .
The park has seen little change in the century since it was planted, but no tree maintenance either. A part of the south-western area was fenced in in 1970 and artificial burrows were built in it for hunting foxes and badgers; the now overgrown area with a derelict container building spoils the park.
The most valuable specimen is the almost 200-year-old sycamore maple on the border of the fenced area to the "Račí údolí" nature reserve. The tallest trees are two Nordmann firs with mistletoe infested in the upper crown on the collapsed staircase to the south-western area. In addition, three stately Canadian hemlocks and three black pines each grow in the park, as well as two flowering groups of Catawba rhododendrons (Rhododendron catawbiense). The rarest specimens include a Nootka cypress and a stone pine . The entire stock of blue spruce , on the other hand, is dying off.
literature
- Pavel Macháček / Kateřina Preisová: Tančírna . Obec Bernartice 2015, ISBN 978-80-270-0224-5
web links
- Tančírna… srdce rychlebských hor
- Tančírna Račí údolí at zanikleobce.cz
itemizations
- ↑ Otevření Tančírny v Račím údolí , www.ruzenec.cz, July 25, 2015
- ↑ History, záchrana a obnova Tančírny
- ↑ Register of Monuments, No. 106392
- ↑ Monument description No. 106392 of the NPÚ
- ↑ Window with the Coat of Arms of Prince Bishop Kopp, 1997
- ↑ Coat of arms window on the other gable end, 1997
Coordinates: 50° 22′ 7.1″ N , 16° 59′ 46.8″ E