Im Zentrum

Im Zentrum

A former German dance hall built in the Art Nouveau style at the beginning of the 20th century, in a valley near the small town of Javorník, in the Jeseníky mountains, became a popular trip destination and socio-cultural meeting point for locals. After WWII, in a borderland region hit by the expulsion of German inhabitants, the dance hall fell into decay for a long time. Its renovation took place not earlier than in 2014. It was re-opened to the public in 2015. Thanks to the appointment of a suitable program director (an active local community member with strong bonds to cultural, social and artistic environments in big cities and thus having a proper understanding of both the local community's needs and the professionally run cultural institution), who managed to devise meaningful functions for the hall, its revitalization became possible. With a very rich social, cultural and artistic program and unusually high visitor numbers it soon became a well known phenomenon also outside the region and developed into a marketing brand.

In 2016, it was the winner of "Seven Wonders of Olomouc region". The place succeeded also in re-establishing and developing a cross-border collaboration via the Czech-German artistic and cultural initiative In Zentrum / V centru (In theCentre). It was founded in 2016 by the program manager together with a German partner and has organized projects and events with joint gatherings of both Czech and German artists, students, participants and visitors, re-opening discussion aorund the subject of German history and heritage of the region.