Renewal of Cultural Monuments

How to proceed

In the case of an intention to carry out a renewal of a movable cultural monument, immovable cultural monument or property located in a historically protected area, an obligation arises to request in advance a binding opinion of the Heritage Department of Prague City Hall (PCH HD).

The object of an assessment is any intervention or intention, which, on the basis of relevant provisions of special legal regulations, requires a binding opinion of the given body (planning permission, building permit, notification, change of the purpose of use of the building, occupancy permit, additional building permit, etc.), or where the obligation to request a binding opinion is set down by Act No. 20/1987 Coll., On State Monument Care, as amended (restoration of movable cultural monuments, placement of installations, placement of pavement restaurants, woody species treatment, etc.)

In the case of a cultural monument (both movable and immovable), the binding opinion can only be requested by the owner. In the case of real estates, which are not cultural monuments but are located in a monument reservation, monument zone or a protective zone, the binding opinion can be requested by the owner, the administrator or the user.

Upon written request and after prior statement of a professional organization of State monument care (National Heritage Institute) PCH HD issues a binding opinion.

A binding opinion of PCH HD is a binding basis for the decision of the relevant administrative body on the matter, or an independent administrative decision in the event that subsequently no other administrative body has the authority to decide on the matter.

Forms, requirements, documents

Request for Issue of PCH-HD Binding Opinion template is available at  http://pamatky.praha.eu/

The request does not have to be filled on the prepared form, but it must contain:

  • Identification of the property or movable cultural monument
  • Identification of the applicant
  • Valid proof of ownership of the property (copy of an entry from the Land Registry) or movable cultural monument

Certified power of attorney indicating the scope of authorisation for the representative of the applicant  in case of representation (template at   http://pamatky.praha.eu/ )

  • Proof of legal personality of the applicant, or authorised representative (copy of an entry in the Commercial Register, Trade Register)
  • Project documents (project documentation, if elaborated and required by relevant provisions of Act No.183/2006 Coll., On Town And Country Planning and Building Code, as amended, or by PCH-HD)
  • Building and historical research (does not apply to properties in protective zones)
  • Proposal of restoration intervention and photographic documentation of present state for movable cultural monuments

Processing times

30 days, in particularly complex cases 60 days (S.71 (3) (a) Act No. 500/2004 Coll., Rules of Administrative Procedure, as amended)

Matter dealt with by

The Heritage Department of PCH, Unit of State Administration of Monument Care.

Information provided at the Information Desk in the lobby of PCH.

HD Address: Jungmannova 29/35, 111 21 Prague 1
Telephone – department’s registry: 236 002 192, 236 002 034, 236 002 081, 236 002 229, 236 002 005,  236 003 220
Visiting days: Monday 12.00 – 17.00, Wednesday 8.00 – 18.00

How to file

The request with all the above mentioned elements shall be addressed to PCH-HD. It can be filed by post, by public data network into PCH’s data box or in person at the main PCH filing office, in the lobby of PCH.

Address: Mariánské nám. 2, 110 01 Prague

Work place: Jungmannova 29/35, 111 21 Prague

  PCH filing office opening hours (Jungmannova St.): 

  Monday – Thursday 8.00 – 18.00, Friday 8.00 – 16.00.

PCH filing office opening hours (Mariánské Square): 

Monday 8.00 – 17.00, Tuesday 8.00 – 16.00, Wednesday 8.00 – 18.00, Thursday 8.00 – 16.00, Friday 8.00 – 15.00

  
   
   

Legislation:

  • Notification of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs No. 73/2000 Collection of International Treaties, Convention on the Protection of European Architectural Heritage of 3rd October 1985
  • Notification of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs No. 99/2000 Collection of International Treaties, Convention on the Protection of European Archaeological Heritage of 16th January 1992.
  • Act No. 20/1987 Coll., On State Monument Care, as amended
  • Act No. 500/2004 Coll., Rules of Administrative Procedure, as amended
  • Act No. 200/1990 Coll., On Administrative Infractions, as amended
  • Act No. 300/2008 Coll. On Electronic Acts and Authorised Document Conversion
  • Ministry of Culture Decree No. 66/1988 Coll., implementing the Act on State Monument Care, as amended
  • Ministry of Culture Decree No. 187/2007 Coll., stipulating the content and elements of the plan of an area with archaeological findings
  • Ministry of Culture Decree No. 420/2008 Coll., stipulating the elements and content of protection of monument reservations and monument zones
  • Government Decree No. 66/1971 Coll., on Prague Monument Reservation
  • Government Decree No. 55/1989 Coll., on proclaiming some cultural monuments national cultural monuments, as amended
  • Government Decree No. 111/1991 Coll., on proclaiming Břevnov Monastery a national cultural monument
  • Government Decree No. 404/1992 Coll., on changes in proclamation of some cultural monuments national cultural monuments, as amended
  • Government Decree No. 127/1995 Coll., on folk architecture monument reservation (Ruzyně, Stodůlky)
  • Government Decree No. 262/1995 Coll., on proclaiming and cancelling proclamation of some cultural monuments as national cultural monuments, as amended
  • City of Prague Ordinance No. 15/1991 Coll. HMP on proclaiming parts of the territory of Prague as monument zones and on setting conditions for their protection
  • City of Prague Ordinance No. 10/1993 Coll. HMP on proclaiming parts of the territory of Prague as monument zones and on setting conditions of their protection
  • Ministry of Culture Decree No. 108/2003 Coll., on proclaiming monument zones (Tejnka, Staré Střešovice)
  • Ministry of Culture Decree No. 413/2004 Coll., on proclaiming monument zones (Střešovičky)
  • Decision of the Department of Culture of Prague People’s Committee, reference no. Kul/5-932/81 of 19th May1981 on determining the protective zone of reservation in the City of Prague, and its supplement of 9th July 1981, which determines this protective zone and the conditions for working in it
17. prosince 2012
17. prosince 2012