Preserved Mountain Residential Buildings in the Ore Mountains: Disappearing Elements of their Valuable Architectural Expression (on the Example of the Village Bublava)

The paper presents local research conducted in the Kraslice microregion. It is in the Sudetenland of the Ore Mountains. The subject is preserved mountain rural dwelling houses built until 1945 in the village of Bublava. This unique regional typology of residential buildings bears its specific façade elements inspired by the German Heimatstil. As a result of the current trend towards energy saving, the building facades are being partially modified and the original valuable architectural expression of buildings is disappearing. The paper presents valuable elements of regional mountain village buildings, which were determined based on an area survey of residential buildings built before 1945 in the village of Bublava. The authors evaluated the area survey. The evaluation produced a list and a frequency of the occurrence of valuable elements of the preserved rural buildings in the Kraslice region and, on the other hand, also the types and frequency of existence of partial building envelope modifications. Realizing partial building envelope modifications can be risky for preserving the architectural expression of the buildings. Based on this research, the buildings were categorized according to the degree of preservation of their original pre-war architectural expression. The individual buildings will be further selected as case studies for the follow-up parts of the research.