Varak és kastélyok (A 25. Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 1995 Eger, 1995)

Előadások: - Eeva-Liisa Rautalahti: Suomenlinna – világörökség

original colour but adapted to the identity of the building as an 18th century building with not too many alterations. All previous layers of paint and wallpaper are preserved under a new wallpaper painted with limewash. The Galley Dockyard Originally the galley dock was built between the island of Susisaari and some small islands by means of a huge dam. Entry into the basin was from the north-east. The dock was emptied through a still existing tunnel by horse-drawn pumps. The galley-dock was created for the Swedish archipelago fleet of smaller specially designed vessels, which could more easily manouvere between the islands. The Russians made larger alterations just before World War I by deepening the basin some 1,5 meters and covering the walls with regularly cut stone blocks. They also started building the outer basin, which was completed by the Finns in the 1930s and a fine iron lock system, still in use today, between the inner and outer basin was floaded from St. Petersburg. The Russians fiulled the Swedish built entrance and built several workshop buildings there. During the Finnish period until 1982, the dockyard and the surrounding buildings served as an aero plane factory, submarine base and after World War II as a dockyard to build ships Finland had to deliver to the Soviet Union as war restitution. The shipbuilding company Valmet moved out in the 1980s and the dockyard came into the hands of the Governing Body of Suomenlinna. After many discussions it was decided that the inner basin of the dockyard would be leased to an association of owners of old wooden ships and boats. The outer basin is in the use of the Finnish maritime research boats. All the machinery that can be used is used until it is beyond repair, there are workshops for sail makers and shipcarpenters. Courses for shipcarpenters are organised there, too, The dockyard is not open to the public as it is not considered safe enough. The idea is to keep the shipbuilding activity going as long as possible, but without having to modernise it, and preserving all the existing historical evidence of the past. Slowly, and we hope very slowly, and gradually as the machines go out of use the dockyard will become a museum. All the buildings and machinery has been recorded and a careful longterm plan of how to develop the area has recently been made. Every year some repairs are made, to improve the safety of the area, and eventually some parts of it will be opened to the public. The recent repairs, such as consolidation of the concrete walls of the outer basin and painting the cranes, are part of the maintainance. Renewing the electricity and connecting the area to the municipal watersupply, drainage and heating system are investments to be made necessarily in the near future. What does it mean that a monument is a World Heritage Site? For Suomenlinna it means that in the Finnish yearly state budget money is reserved for repairs and investments on Suomenlinna. UNESCO has a World Heritage Fund but the money is reserved for sites in danger. The advice of specialists is provided if needed and asked for. A representative of the World Heritage Committee has visited Suomenlinna since nomination to monitor the siutation. But being one of the World Heritage Sites can also help to clarify the meaning and importance of a cultural monument.