"Water Will Smooth and Level Everything Anyway": The Lipno Reservoir and Its Role in Building of the Post-War Czechoslovak Borderlands
Abstract
The study follows the works of Eagle Glassheim dedicated to the post-war development of the Most region, which resulted in the devastation of the local environment in the 1970s and 1980s. It inquires about how the new regional identity of the settlers was formed in the area of present-
-day Lipno, to what extent it was affected by the industrial development of the locality and how it influenced the attitude of the locals to the inhabited landscape.
In comparison with Glassheim's conclusions, the study explains the different consequences of the post-war development of the Lipno region. Despite extensive industrial interventions in the landscape, the region became a popular and sought-after tourist destination. A fundamental role in this development is attributed to water as a natural landscape element with the ability to erase traces of artificial interventions in the landscape, as well as unwanted cultural and historical traces of the original German settlement.