Plasy was extremely successful in this year’s competition. The monumental restoration of the farmyard within the Centre of Building Heritage of the National Technical Museum won the main title of Building of the Year of the Pilsen Region 2015 in the category of Building Reconstruction. The jury highlighted the successful and inspiring restoration of heritage buildings. The project Paths through the monastery – trails of knowledge implemented by the town of Plasy was awarded by the Governor of the Pilsen Region, Václav Šlajs.
“We appreciate the award very much, among other things, because before the beginning of the monument restoration the area of the farmyard was in such a bad structural and technical condition that few people believed in its rescue. After all, the construction work itself was continuously enriched by a number of archaeological and building-historical findings. On the one hand, these were a certain technical complication, but at the same time they contributed in a fundamental way to the knowledge of the history of the monastery. We are very appreciative of the cooperation with the town of Plasy, where in a follow-up project we have managed to restore a substantial part of the former monastery courtyard and thus create a pleasant environment for local residents and visitors to Plasy,” says Pavel Kodera, head of the Centre for Building Heritage in Plasy.
“We are of course very happy about both awards. I am very pleased with the cooperation between the town and the National Technical Museum (NTM), under which the Building Heritage Centre belongs. The NTM pays really great attention not only to the renovation itself, but also to the promotion of the project. I hope that the whole complex will attract visitors from the Czech Republic and abroad. We already see that people have learned to come here and Plasy is an attractive place for them,” says the mayor of Plasy, Zdeněk Hanzlíček.”
The exhibition of presentation panels could be seen in the premises of the local former brewery in the Centre of Building Heritage from 9 to 28 August 2016.
