PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Chmelenský, Jiří
TI  - Prague Power Engineering of the Late 19th to the First Half of the 20th Century : What is left of it in Prague
DP  - 2020 Jun 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 45--67
VI  - 36
IP  - 1
AID - 10.56112/sp.2020.1.03
IS  - 02316056
AB  - The dynamic building development of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, has resulted in the past and today in rapid disappearing of historic industrial buildings, potentially the most endangered category of monuments. This also includes monuments of historical power engineering. The article primarily sums up an overview of important Prague power stations and other power plants and draws attention to their heritage values. Secondarily the issue of power engineering monuments is outlined regarding the substance of power stations - their electrotechnical devices. The descriptive part is concluded by appeal to higher awareness of the values of today's rare electrotechnical equipment, which in fact determines the value of power plants more than their purely architectural form. Despite the sad decline in recent years, several architecturally interesting industrial monuments of Prague electrification at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century have survived to the present day.