KYRKLIGT KULTURARV I BEREDSKAPSPLANERING Logistik, roller och urval

Abstract

With the political situation that prevails in the world, the need for contingency planning for the ecclesiastical heritage has become actualized with the aim of protecting the churches and their assets in war and armed conflicts. In accordance with Kulturmiljölagen (SFS 1988:950) chapter 4 § 15a, the Church of Sweden and its organizational parts are responsible for ensuring that contingency plans for the ecclesiastical heritage are established. In the legal statutes, it is not clear how this is to be carried out, who is responsible for all practical aspects or what is to be protected, something that creates gaps of knowledge regarding logistics, roles and selection. This means that there is currently a lack of principles and practice around the protection of the ecclesiastical cultural heritage, as contingency planning for cultural heritage is a fairly new phenomenon that has not been practiced in times of peace. The purpose of the essay is to examine archived documents for ecclesiastical contingency planning from the year 1968 that contains evacuation protocols for the churches in Skaraborg county and see if they are relevant in contemporary contingency planning. Methods that have been applied to achieve the purpose and to answer the questions are document studies, content analysis and interviews. The source material that has been obtained in addition to the informants' statements has included official documents such as laws, regulations, conventions and official protocols. Based on the results, it can be concluded that there are aspects of the evacuation protocols that can be useful in contemporary emergency planning. In order for these to be applied, gaps of knowledge need to be filled. The identified knowledge gaps concern practical issues and how the view of roles and selection of cultural heritage has changed over the past 60 years