English Translation

A major action for the construction of 32 cultural houses under the aid of around five million crowns is reported from the Jitschin district, where 32 municipalities have already started the construction or preparation of a cultural house for the building of one. For the most part, community-owned funds were made available and the action was linked to the municipal requirement. On average, the expenditure provided for construction was around 250,000 kroons. In several municipalities the building materials were collected in the previous year and a voluntary work obligation was introduced for the inhabitants, which often also have to make their teams zμm drive up the material available; often the autonomous protectorate authorities were also addressed for an appropriate construction contribution. The Urban Cultural Commission of Strakonitz (OLB Klattau) issued a competition for designs for the construction of a Cultural House; the construction will begin this year and all local cultural corporations, a reading hall and a library will be accommodated. Éinige Gemeinden also went on to convert former private buildings into cultural houses, which should also serve for public purposes, e.g. accommodation of the municipal office, a school, etc. In Bieschin (OLB Klattau) the new building of the local Raiffeisen-Kasse was opened, in which also a community library, reading hall and lecture room were accommodated, so that here can be spoken of from a cultural house. In the village of Lhotky (OLB Iglau) a cultural house was finally opened in complete silence with the help of the Czech teacher and a further 12 employees, who besides a hall and a play stage also has a storage room to compensate for the lack of an inn in this municipality. Similar to the cultural houses, the Czech "Beseda" (cultural society circle) on the Iande and in the provincial cities also proves to be the bearer of Czech culture and social life. The establishment of such cultural circles usually goes back to the time before the World War; Czechs, on the other hand, wanted to avoid the creation of unity-oriented associations for cultural and national purposes. The example of the "Iglauer Beseda" shows best how in the German-speaking regions from the Czech side the shift from the cultural to the folk-like area of responsibility took hold.