TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ŠUMAVA MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE: THE 19TH CENTURY TIMBER TRADE AND LUMBERMAN SETTLEMENT

Abstract

The industrialisation of Bohemia in the 19th century spurred not only the building of factories, urban expansion, development of mining areas and extension of transport infrastructure in the form of railways MINUS SIGN it also had an influence which reached more remote areas. Such remote areas are not usually defined as industrial at all.

Keywords

• landscape transformation
• woodlands
• Šumava Mountains, lumbermann settlement
• timber trade