The Maria Stock Pathway. On the building of memorial landscape in the West Bohemian Region

Abstract

This article focuses on the building of a pathway that serves as a basic platform for remembering a forgotten pilgrimage site in the West Bohemian Region. It examines the building of the pathway as a transformation process from an original idea to the final form, which was made possible through negotiation between various actors. It provides the potential to explore the building of memorial landscape, which implies how specific places of remembering are transformed and exported into the form of a pathway. In respect to this principle, the subject area of the pathway is inscribed into the place of remembering typical for the intersection of different frames of reference. Thus, I argue that memory is formed not as a prescribed form of remembering, but rather as a free variation conditioned by the affective potential of a marked place, offering a direction for possible remembering.