Műemlék-helyreállítások tegnap, ma, holnap (A 27. Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 1997 Eger, 1997)

Előadások - NÁNDORI Klára: Restoration of the pravostal ruins at Dömös

All the participants,archaeologists, art historians, architects, structural and other specialised engineers, stone, wall painting, wood, glass and object restorers should be invited to cooperate as early as the launching of a restoration program. The same way as we, practising architects, receive help from the theoretical people in how preservation architects can best meet what they are expected to carry out, we also offer our help in elaborating on the detailed tasks associated with the above issue and in teaching the techniques of documentation. It is important, however, that we should ot only be trying to protect our monuments from each other, but also from decay and a whole set of other threats. We should also think about what to do, how to go on, or how to start again, so that relics of the size of Dubrovnik will not perish from one day to the other. We bear high responsibility, both in the professional and in the human sense of the term, with respect to our vouths and children. Our personal example should persuade them, make them believe in the significance of the preservation of our heritage, in the beauty of our mission, while it is obvious that we are involved in only a single, though fascinating, branch of culture. We are obliged to carry out the operation even if we are not in a position to meet the et of criteria which is normally required in surgery. This is how we proceeded when restoring the crypt of the Dömös provostal church. However, in spite of all mistakes, deficiencies and difficulties, we believe that our work has not only added to the architectural, artistic and touristic wealth of the village of Dömös, but, through the presentation of the values of our past, has also contributed to shaping a new approach, aimed at the recognition of, the respect for those assets,and the creation of new ones; and we are still confident that one day we can start working again. NOTES 1. The account of the excavations carried out by László Gerevich from 1971 to 1975 is to be found in the architectural archives of OMF: „tudományos dokumentáció 1/2.1976. V. 12. " 2. The detailed concept for the urban planning of Dömös has been completed recently. Senior planner: Dezsó'né Korbonics. 3. Let us take this opportunity to thank the competent curators of the Visegrád and Esztergom Museums of Stonework, the Balassa Bálint Museum, the Kuny Domokos Museum of Tata and the Hungarian National Museum for having so far stored the stones and having now handed them over to us. The space for re-installing on the premises the cap of a semicolumn, ornamented with an animal pattern and still displayed In the National Gallery,has been prepared already. 4. „The main purpose of the preservation of historic monuments, is to keep an eye on the development of the entire human environment, in the broadsense of the term, to seek for and assess the ever increasing amount of historical and aesthetical assets, as well as those assets which contribute to shaping our social consciousness, all of them products of the above development, and, finally, to see to the organic integration of those assets into the process of development and to their preservation for the coming generations. „In more words, this means that the historical and urban interrelationships associated with the monuments discovered through the methods of art history and social sciences are to be made subject to scientific research, and the data proided by such research are to be registered with the same accuracy and made use of in the course of interventions necessary to preservation. „The intellectual, political, legal, urban and economic requisites of the survival of historic monuments, their organic integration into the life and the development of communities are to be guaranteed, and their use is to be in accordance with and worthy of their value and character. All possible technical means and instruments available are to be used for the permanent control of their technical conditions, and the maintenance of their appropriate standars as well as the full relaization of their values are to be ensured through regular conservation and restoration work. Hisoric monuments are to be made available to the whole society, and the awareness of their significance is to be widely spread. "