Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
former exhibition grounds, recently rebuilt into a leisure centre and a restaurant. In
the southern part there is also a newly reconstructed building of former baths where
the town gallery is being relocated at the moment. A new modern object has been
built in the area of the former baths. It will be used as the gallery depository. There
is a tram line going along Masarykova Street, with a tram stop right in the centre of
the locality. It is the main street and nowadays it is intersected by a quite busy street
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General Comparison
At the very beginning it is clear that on all the maps (except the one from 1858)
those three important buildings are depicted in dark colour. We can also see that the
graphic presentations of single maps are not remarkably different from each other.
It can be assumed that the most important development of the locality happened
between the years when the first and the second map were created i.e. between 1858
and 1899.
Street Network
The axis of this locality is Masarykova Street. In 1858, this area is characterized by
only a symbol of a path in fields and meadows without any turnings, intersections or
parallel paths. In contrast to this, the map created 41 years later (1899) shows quite
developed road infrastructure accompanied by symbols of dense residential
development.
Using the map from 1899 we can see that the street network went through
remarkable changes, especially to the north, where there are numerous symbols
of residential buildings. In contrast to this, the southern direction does not have such
visible signs of development in the period between 1858 and 1899. Along the south
side of the street there is only a line of symbols of residential houses. This linear
housing development does not change very much on later maps.
Parallel with the main street there is a colour line symbol (1899 and 1910—
black, 1939—blue white; 1981—red, identification number 3 and 4), which makes
us assume that there used to be a tram line there. The only exception are the maps
from 1858, when the housing development was not yet presented in the locality and
in 1932 and 1943, when the tram line was not displayed due to excessive general-
ization of the maps.
Housing Development
The most remarkable changes of residential density can be seen on the maps from
1858 to 1899. It can be assumed that this expansion was supported by construction
of the tram line.
