book Heaps/Arizona

Remains of mining activity around Kladno: good or bad?
editors Lukáš Krinke, Dagmar Šubrtová
2 June 200631 December 2026

publisher, Mining Skanzen Mayrau. 

year of publication, 2006.

What do the piles of tailings created by more than 150 years of mining activity mean for the landscape of Klagenfurt? Catalogue, published for the exhibition of the same name in the Castle Gallery of the city of Kladno on 24 October - 19 November 2006 and the exhibition Islands from Paradise: Kladno heaps as landscape, nature and identity, Mayrau open-air museum, Vinařice u Kladno 2 April - 30/06/2006. Contains an abbreviated and popular version of a biological study conducted on the Kladno dumps between 2003 and 2005.

Chapters:

Václav Cílek: What are heaps made of?

Jiří Sádlo, Lukáš Krinke: Flora and vegetation of the Kladno mounds

Vít Zavadil: We don't have to go to reservations / Fauna of Kladno heaps

Radovan Víta: Heaps at the intersection of interests

Zdeněk Kuchyňka: Brief history of mining in Kladno and Slánsk

Pavla Žvachtová: Heaps as sustenance, destruction and nostalgia

R. Schmelzová: Post-industrial landscape or the legacy of the industrial revolution

Tomáš Gremlica et al.: The future of heaps in the landscape of Kladno