Abstract
The work shows the transformations and development of the landscape and settlement in the central Šumava (Bohemian Forest) with the influence of industralization. The industralization of Bohemia and mainly Prague and its hunger for raw materials were the cause of the significant metamorphoses of the nandscape and settlement patterns in the Šumava since the beginning of the 19th century.
It was the aristocratic family of the Schwarzenbergs, who seized the opportunity to fill the gap in the Prague market with firewood, purchased the relevant plots of land and built a wood transport system using water power here, which made it possible to expand into hitherto marginal unutilised forest areas. Because tere was extensive untouched forest cover here and the potential of the waterways for their transport , and therefore it became an essencial area for resources, hence the base and background services of the success of a sophisticated aristocratic business.
The cut and transported timber became the engineof the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The book shows relicts of lumberjack activities in the mountains in comparison with written resources.
It combinates approaches and methods of landscape and industrial archaeology.