Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2003/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2003)

MŰHELY - Entz Géza: Javaslat a Dehio rendszerű műemléki topográfiai kézikönyv programjának bevezetésére

The starting point of the proposal was the present situation of topographic research in Hungary and the tasks of its with the using of the monument inventories' international experiments. The first national monument list was published in 1905 edited by Péter Gerecze. The next important initiation was started by the Budapest art history professor Tibor Gerevich, who collected the material of a topography as the chairman of the Monument Protection Committee between 1934-1948 the results of which were used by Dezső Dercsényi following World War II and lead to the publication of the series of Hungarian Monument Topography (Dezső Dercsényi was a student of Tibor Gerevich and as an excellent master of Italian art policy, monument protection and restoration, art historian of the National Committee of Monument Protection. Following World War II he had a decisive role through decades in the forming of the structure of modern institutions of Hungarian monument protection.) The first volume introducing the collection of the Christian Museum in Esztergom was followed by an essential concept modification. In the eleven volumes published between 1953-1987 the monuments of four and a half counties and the capital's Buda side districts were discussed. Considering the different manuscripts of several stages of execution end the results of the latest research lege artis topographical material collection does not cover the 51 % of the country's territory. And this is dealing only with the circle of registered monuments - with the exception of the research of the latest years, rarely reaching further than 1880 in time. Beside it should be added that works already finished need new discussion and extension. The lecture of Sélysette Somorjay, head of the Topographic Department looked over topographic research work done since the closing of the last two volumes. It was published in a slightly extended form in the 2002/1. number of Monument Protection Review. This study was a summary of a quarter of a century's research and results. The period was characterized by the incalculableness of financial sources and without a basic change Hungarian topographic research would be stopped. The author's opinion is that the way out would be - beside the great topography - the starting of a supplementing small topography program. This would mean a two decades' work of finishing it with an organic method of research. The result could be felt at the beginning already and built on the still unpublished material collected within a short period of time several volumes could be published. The cooperation with the Art History Institute would be helpful as a topographic project has been started there in 1983 stopped following the publication of the only volume of Fejér county in 1998. The revitalization of the project would be necessary from the points of marketing as well. Topography as an object is not known now for the public and even its loss is not felt any more. At the same time in the present situation of Hungary an ever-widening circle of users could be hoped among those dealing with art history and monument protection, settlement development, tourism, education, media and other fields in connection with each other.As to its concept a new Hungarian small topography project could be built on Hungarian traditions and international experiences as well. István Genthon, a colleague