The Application of the World Heritage Management Plan as a Methodological Instrument for Listed Building Complexes – about the Value, Management Strategies and the Development plan. Part 1–2.

I participated between 2014–2016 as a tourism expert in the preparation of the management plan of the Pécs site on request of Tamás MEZŐS and Zoltán BACHMAN. This work gave me a look back on eight years as a heritage manager on the one hand, and on the other hand it made me realise that the tools that are well known in project management have their place in heritage management also. Over the years I have been looking for guidelines on treatment and management that are valid for historic buildings, but at that time I could only find the Building Code in the Hungarian national legislation. This is partly what made me try to apply the World Heritage Site Management Plan, developed in a very complex way at international level into the management of historic buildings and complexes. I have chosen as the subject of my study an iconic listed building complex in Pécs, the Nick Court. The main reason for the choice of topic was the central location of the building complex (next to the town hall, making up the main square of the city), its history, which is intertwined with the Zsolnay name, which has so long been a hallmark of the name of the bourgeois city. The rather poor condition of the building, which nowadays represents a major challenge for the city and the local government in terms of conservation and use, has also made the problem actual.