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Map of the stable cadastre of the cadastral municipality Žatec from 1843 (crop) (ÚAZK). Compared to the original, the hops are highlighted in ocher.
The map documents the tradition of hop growing even near the historic town centre.

2. Description

108 through Žatec. There was also an important road from and Polepy (north of Roudnice nad Labem), where,
Cítoliby to Žatec through Lipenec, but its continuation however, no significant hop trade centre developed.
towards Kadaň was limited to a short section west of In other Czech hop growing areas, there was a massive
Libočany. In II. military mapping, the central railway increase in the area of hop fields only in the second half
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station in Žatec, and four railway lines leading to it were of the 19 century. It was during this period that the
drawn. The first of them was put into operation in 1871, territories that best suit the growth and development
which proves that the railway was added to the map of hops with their climate and soil were profiled
sheets later. throughout Bohemia, and in which the areas of hop
fields expanded significantly, or even were newly
In other parts of the northern half of Bohemia, there was established. On the contrary, in other regions, hop
a significant concentration of hop fields in the middle cultivation was significantly reduced or completely
of the 19 century, for example, in the vicinity of Hoštka disappeared (Klatovy region in southwestern Bohemia,
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The territory of Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops on II. military mapping (1842–1852), crop scale: 1 : 20,000. MAPIRE.
The railway lines were plotted in the map additionally.