June 5th - June 6th, 2019
Telč, Czech Republic
Workshop Venue
Telč
The town of Telč is one of the most picturesque in the country. The precise date of the town’s establishment is not known. The oldest reliable information about Telč dates to 1333 – 1335, when the entire region belonged to the King of Bohemia. A royal intendant had his seat at the farmstead of the local lords, which included a tower and a little church. After 1339, Telč was held by the aristocratic family of the Lords of Hradec, who had a significant impact on the town’s appearance. The original water fortress with a Gothic castle was gradually converted to a charming Renaissance town.
Zachariáš of Hradec (1526 – 1589) had the old castle rebuilt into a grandiose Renaissance residence, with the assistance of Italian craftsmen. At the same time as the chateau underwent this, the Gothic houses in the square were also rebuilt to the form that has survived to date. The first half of the 17th century was marked by the Thirty Years War, and in 1645, the town was briefly seized and looted. In 1655, the Jesuit order arrived in town, whose building activities significantly contributed to the town’s present appearance. At the end of the 19th century, the town grew rapidly; but, within its historical gates, it retained the charming feel of the Renaissance era. That was why, in 1992, its historical core was put on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
source: www.region-vysocina.cz
University Centre Telč (UCT)
Workshop will take place in the University Centre Telč (UCT).
The former Jesuits’ college building in which Masaryk University all-university learning centre is located stands opposite to the chateau across the Zacharias of Hradec Square. The centre presents Masaryk University faculties’ studies and learning opportunities in the region offering the degree and learning programmes within lifelong learning answering the learning demand of the region by hosting seminars, conferences or summer learning courses. The learning centre differs in location – outside the South Moravia region. The surroundings are highly attractive: the historic Telč downtown with picturesque storey buildings with Renaissance gables and arcades.
Centre of Excelence Telč (CET)
CET - Centre of Excellence Telč is a part of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Science, which was build with financial support from the European Union and the Czech Republic through the structural funds and the state budget allocated to the Operational Programme Research and Development for the period 2007 – 2013.
The centre studies materials, structures, buildings and sites, especially historic ones, and is equipped with unique infrastructure for basic research as well as for testing the application and innovation potential of newly developed technologies for diagnostics, extension of durability, preventive protection and rescue and long-term sustainable use of cultural heritage as well as the present built fund.
CET’s infrastructure primarily comprises the climatic wind tunnel “Vincenc Strouhal” of ecologically and economically optimized size for the research of building materials and technologies and equipped with measurement and simulation tools developed at the Institute, a unique workplace for large-scale, high-resolution X-ray micro- and nanotomography, as well as material analyses laboratories and other research modules, specific databases and tools for research and monitoring of architectural heritage, including a unique mobile system for specific tasks of cultural heritage rescue in emergency situations.
CET is founded on and further develops research activities supported by the European Commission within the ARCCHIP Centre of Excellence.
Navigation map
| Workshop Location: | |
| University Centre Telč | |
| Zachariáše z Hradce 2 | |
| 588 56, Telč | |
| GPS Location: | |
| 49°11'4.74"N 15°27'4.1"E |