The ceremonial mourning hall in Bílovec could become a cultural monument

Bílovec – The ceremonial mourning hall in Bílovec in the Nový Jičín region could become a cultural monument. The National Heritage Institute in Ostrava has proposed it among approximately 100 similar buildings of architecture from the 1960s and 1970s across the country that should be designated as monuments, and the initiative was submitted to the Ministry of Culture by the city as the owner of the building. CTK was informed today by Lenka Hatlapatková on behalf of the Bílovec city hall.

The mourning hall, located at the entrance of the Bílovec cemetery, was built in 1976. The project authors from 1969 are architects Miloslav Kadeřábek and Jaroslav Zbořil, who designed a number of other crematoria and mourning halls in the country at that time. "According to experts in the field of architecture and heritage care, it is one of the significant mourning halls in the Czech Republic," said Hatlapatková.

The mayor of the Silesian town, Renata Mikolášová, stated that the initiative submitted on behalf of the building owner could expedite the process of declaring the hall a monument. Bílovec has been renting the mourning hall for years, and the current operator is the company Agnes.

"In the contract with the operator, the city reserved the right to approve any changes to the building, stating that the city would also finance major interventions into the building after approval," said the mayor. In recent years, only minor construction modifications have been made in the ceremony hall, such as the repair of public toilets, the replacement of some windows and doors, or the repair of the roof after leakage.

According to the mayor, registering the mourning hall in the list of cultural monuments would enable the city to apply for grants for its restoration. "The mourning hall deserves repairs; it needs to have the main entrance doors replaced as well as the remaining windows, change the light covers in the floor of the hall, repair the stained glass in the

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