The project The Dowry Towns of Queens of Bohemia (A living part of the historic consciousness and its support by the instruments of historic geography, virtual reality and cyberspace) succeeded in the NAKI II competition.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe project of the Philosophical faculty of the University of Hradec Kralove presented in consortium with the Institute of History of the CAS and the Faculty of information technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague achieved the 15th<\/sup> position out of the total number of 173 projects.<\/p>\nIt was decided by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic during the evaluation of the projects in the second public competition in research, experimental development and innovations for the year 2018 within the Programme for support of applied research, experimental development and innovations of the national and cultural identity for the years 2016 till 2022 (NAKI II).<\/p>\n
The project was presented by the members of the Centre of urban history, principal investigator being doc. Mgr. Petr Grulich, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\nProject annotation<\/strong><\/p>\nThe towns that in the past belonged to the Bohemian queens, the so called the royal dowry (stably Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Chrudim, Vysok\u00e9 M\u00fdto, Poli\u010dka, Jarom\u011b\u0159, Dv\u016fr Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Trutnov, Nov\u00fd Byd\u017eov, M\u011bln\u00edk) are a special category among the Czech historical towns in a number of perspectives. With exception of M\u011bln\u00edk they create a specific geographic enclave in Eastern Bohemia. The institution began to form at the beginning of the 14th century and went through a complicated development. The dowry towns became a source of income for the queens and in case of medieval Hradec and M\u011bln\u00edk also a seat of several of them for certain time. De iure, the institute of the dowry towns ended in the year 1918. The reflection of their historical charisma was revitalised again during the national revival in the 19th century and lives until today as one of the pieces of identity of these towns in relation to other towns in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
The main goal of the presented project is in accordance with the specific goal 1,1 applied research and experimental development focused on presenting this uniquely Czech historical phenomena to the general public with help of tools of historical geography and advanced computer graphic. The main outputs of the project will be a dedicated mobile application and a web portal that will serve as a specialized historical guide through the dowry towns and their town landscape and specialized (reconstruction) maps of the whole regional enclave and the towns themselves. In case of Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 the guide will provide a possibility of a 3D journey in time on the basis of the so called extended virtual reality including the 3D reconstruction of the already disappeared urban areas and shows of the period life. For Dv\u016fr Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Jarom\u011b\u0159, Poli\u010dka and Vysok\u00e9 M\u00fdto the volumes of Historic Atlas of the towns of the Czech Republic will be created as further main outputs of the projects. Along with the secondary outputs of the project a compilation presenting the dowry towns to the lay and professional public will be also created. Simultaneously it will support the specific role of the dowry towns in the Czech national and regional identity.<\/p>\n
For more details about the realization of the project<\/strong> that is being realized in the years 2018 -2022<\/strong>, see https:\/\/www.kralovskavennamesta.cz\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>