after 1948 · 1981 Collectivised below, left alone aboveDolu družstvo, hore pokoj

After the communist takeover of February 1948 the fields in the valley were merged into a co-operative farm, as they were all over the district. Stará Hora was a different problem: hundreds of tiny vineyard plots and hand-cut cellars, each belonging to a family, none of it the sort of thing a co-operative farm was built to run. Very little was rebuilt up there, and that is much of the reason it still looks the way it does. In 1981 the state declared Stará Hora a reserve of folk architecture — one of only ten in the whole country — with 89 protected buildings.Po februári 1948 zlúčili polia v doline do jednotného roľníckeho družstva, tak ako v celom okrese. So Starou Horou to bolo inak: stovky drobných vinohradníckych políčok a ručne tesaných pivníc, každá patriaca inej rodine — nič z toho nebolo na spravovanie družstvom. Hore sa prestavovalo málo a práve tomu Stará Hora vďačí za to, že vyzerá dodnes tak, ako vyzerá. Roku 1981 ju štát vyhlásil za pamiatkovú rezerváciu ľudovej architektúry — jednu z desiatich v celej krajine — s 89 chránenými stavbami.