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After social changes in Czechoslovakia following 1989, Academician Ctibor Blatný (1897–1987), our most important phytopathologist,
the Hop growing Research and Cultivation Institute Žatecko, approx. 1930
was changed to the Hop Research Institute Co., Ltd. in
1992. Specialists of the institute are engaged actively in
specialised events related to the presentation of Žatec
hops, including this nomination project.

The institute has been working at a high scientific level
for several decades, and it performs a series of traditional
activities for the lay and expert public, including beer
tasting. It also participates in the programme of the
traditional festival at the end of hops picking season in
Žatec - the Dočesná.

Land cadastre and other cartographic sources for
capturing fluctuations in hop production in the interwar
period.

The stability of the position of hop fields and their
extent can also be observed on maps of the 20 century.
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However, the general development of the changing size
of hop fields, including the area around Žatec, is very
difficult, if not impossible, to document cartographically.
This is due both to its dynamics and especially to the
fact that from the 1780s to the 1840s, no map work was
created that would capture the state of the territory in
a fixed (short) period of time and in sufficient detail.

The relatively detailed maps of the stable cadastre (see
above) were followed by new cadastral maps practically less important country roads. The maps also show the 135
only after a hundred years, after the establishment location of newly built technical structures for hop
of Czechoslovakia (1918). They were processed for processing and other purposes.
individual cadastral areas at different times.

On 16 December 1927, Act No. 177/1927 Coll. z. a. n., On 2.b5 HOP GROWING AFTER WORLD WAR II
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Land Cadastre and its Management (Cadastral Act). The AND IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE
technical level of the newly created cadastral maps (land
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cadastre maps) has reached an unprecedented level. 20 CENTURY
In built-up parts of towns, the replacement of the map
base on the basis of maps of the stable cadastre began After World War II, the organisation of hop growing
with a modern, detailed, and accurate display, usually at changed significantly. During the expulsion of German
a scale of 1 : 1,000 or 1 : 2,000 (Cadastral Act No. 177/1927 inhabitants, the German hop growing enterprises were
Coll. 46/1971 Coll., On Geodesy and Cartography). Maps confiscated. In this respect, the Association of hop
of the land cadastre of individual cadastral municipalities growing producers in the Žatec region was particularly
(and thus created at different times) were merged into active, with its offices in Louny. The Public Marking
a seamless cadastre layer after 1989. To this day, it is of Hops and the Property of the German hop growing
a primary source for understanding the development of companies passed into Czech hands. The Cooperative of
the landscape and settlements. Hop Producers was founded in 1945.

The interwar cadastral maps document both the stability About five thousand hop growing firms had around
of the urban structure of all parts of the nominated 30 administrators, which was not practical. The
property, namely the town of Žatec and individual Ministry of Commerce, therefore, introduced a united
villages, and the modern urban development, which was administration for the 27 hop packaging rooms and
most manifested in Žatec. They also show the completion warehouses in 1947. A Central Hop growing Commission
of the system of district roads, which finally intersected was also founded in 1947.
the floodplain with the largest areas of hop fields, the
area of the component part 01. The more important road Hops as an attractive commodity in the view of
here became the road from Trnovany to Hradiště. The international business, including the chance to acquire
country roads from Stekník south to the east remained payments in scarce foreign currencies, was important