This paper is focused on the discussion of the transformations of the rural landscape in the
Czech borderland in the second half of the 20th century. The borderland is presented as a
certain entity in this paper. The main processes influencing the functioning of the landscape
during the mentioned time period are characterized. Landscape changes on the local level
are detailed using the model area of the Žlutice micro-region as an example.

… some of these were also destroyed … destroyed during 1970s … part of the search for a
relationship with certain historical and intergenerational continuity to the lived-in landscape …