From Farming on Deforested Land to a Museum Exhibition: the Historical Development of a Velké Karlovice Farmstead no. 201 in the Context of Family Memory

The Štural farmstead, built on a deforested area in Velké Karlovice, has been under the administration of the Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm since 1968. The aim of the study is to capture the historical development, to summarise and evaluate the available sources of various kinds related to the object of interest, and to link them with the memories of the inhabitants living in the researched area and their family members, passed down through generations. The ambition is to describe the destiny of the inhabitants of the farmstead and all the aspects linked to their existence in this original place. It is research that is the cornerstone of each building that is transferred. The micro-historical approach can help to articulate other considerations concerning different stages of the development of the area under study, its inhabitants and, ultimately, the whole community.