Water management in the medieval village Ve spáleném near Vyžlovka in the Kostelec-nad-Černými-lesy region
2016
Abstract
The deserted medieval village of Ve spáleném, near Vyžlovka (central Bohemia), is marked by distinct surface relics, its total and permanent desertion took place in the course of the 14th to the beginning of the 15th century. The village was located at a source basin nearby a watershed, and four reservoirs in the area served tu secure an adequate supply of water.
One of the dams of these reservoirs is extraordinary in a morphologacal sense, leading to deliberations on the existence of a simple water mill. Special attention is paid to the fragile nature of settlement areas dependent on insufficient water resources.
