REVITALIZING RURAL ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FOR ENLIVENING COMMUNITY LIFE IN MÁRIAPÓCS

HU07-0049-A2-2013

Conservation and revitalisation of cultural heritage and natural heritage

Preservation of Rural Cultural and Natural Heritage

With co-financing obtained from the EEA Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 under the Conservation and Revitalisation of Cultural Heritage and Natural Heritage Program (HU07 PA16), from the program area for Preservation of Rural Cultural and Natural Heritage (A2) the Local Municipality of Máriapócs undertakes the complex development of the Gergelyffy manor house, aimed at revitalizing and expanding the civic and cultural functions of the heritage site.

The project is aimed at the collection, organization, conservation and dissemination of local tangibla and intangible cultural heritage assets, and uses both traditional tools and progressive solutions to the inventory the city's cultural values and to provide wide accessibility to all sections of society.

Project promoter: Local Municipality of Máriapócs

Grant number: HU07-0049-A2-2013

Total project budget: 97 169 922 Ft

Grant amount: 92 311 427 Ft

Project summary

The complex infrastructural and cultural development of the old Gergelyffy manor house is aimed at creating a solid foundation for providing better socio-cultural services for the community, upgrading the physical environment related to accessing community to values, including cultural programs that enhance community identity and cohesion.

The almost one year long project relies simultaneously on both traditional means of community organization, cons ervation and dissemination of values, and also applies progressive solutions, ensuring accessibility to the project outcomes for all sections of society, in order to raise awareness and promote the necessary attitude change.

In accordance with community needs, during the reconstruction of the manor house two main indoor and three outdoor functions are to be developed.

During the renovation, the original floor plan of the building does not change, however, after the reconstruction the renovated interiors will be given new functions. In the interior a civil-communal and a traditional -cultural function will be developed. One of the most anticipated exterior features of the project is the historical furnace gazebo for making traditional local dishes which is formed for the purpose of organizing local traditional gastronomic events and small outdoor community days.

The project also includes the revitalization of the neglected rear garden of the manor house in which local native trees and plant species (such as poplar, oa k, alder, birch, ash, elm, imola, etc) will be planted. The project also includes a through inventarization of local tacit and tangible cultural heritage (such as folklore, songs, buildings, artefacts), which will be displayed and made publicly available via an interactive inventory webpage.