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in the time of the Czechoslovakian socialist economy   The main change, which was significantly reflected in
          after 1948, and emphasis was, therefore, fortunately,   the landscape in the second half of the 20  century, was
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          still placed on maintaining the production and    the transition to large-scale production and machine
          organisation of hop growing. The Purchasing Stock   picking of hops. In 1943, a hop picking machine was first
          of Hops, a state enterprise, was founded in 1952, the   tested  in  Žatec.  Around  the  1970s,  manual  picking  of
          Hop Growing Station in 1954, and the Hops Purchasing   hops has almost completely disappeared. Since then, the
          Enterprise was founded in 1958. In connection     harvested hops have been transported to large utility hall
          with changes in the rural economy, where private   buildings, the so-called "česáren" (hop-picking rooms),
          ownership was suppressed, the whole structure of   built in almost every hop growing village. Here, picking is
          hop growing changed towards mass production and   performed automatically on a picking machine. This has
          the mechanical picking of hops. However, most of the   speeded up the whole process, and the work can take
          objects for drying, storing, and packing hops, were   place even in bad weather. On the contrary, many village
          utilised continuously due to their quality and utility   farmsteads throughout the region fell out of the entire
          properties, and this helped in their preservation.  production cycle, subsequently fell into disrepair due to
                                                            many factors, and many of them disappeared.
          In 1963, academician Ctibor Blattný stated in the
          literature that only in some locations, where hops
          grow and ripped, they give a product of exceptionally   CARTOGRAPHIC SOURCES TO CAPTURE THE
          high qualities. One of such locations included    DEVELOPMENT OF HOP GROWING IN THE SECOND
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          Czechoslovakia. The concentrated cultivation of   HALF OF THE 20  CENTURY
          hops only in certain areas is the result of a  process   In the 1950s, aerial photography of the state was
          that has lasted for centuries. This concentration must   completed (begun in the 1930s), which is the only one
          be understood comprehensively. It was decided not   to fully capture, for example, the resulting historical
          only by the conditions of the area but equally and   division of the agricultural landscape just before the
          inseparably by the variety of hops, the method of   stage of the merging of land and disturbing its dividing
          cultivation, and knowledge of cultivation.        landscape elements. These images were georeferenced
                                                            with extraordinary accuracy in a seamless form. However,
          Only all these factors together lead to the cultivation   the photography took place in different months of
          of  high-quality  Czech  hops,  the  quality  of  which  is   the growing season, which is why it is often difficult to
          unattainable elsewhere.                           distinguish the areas of hop fields in the images.     137













































               Detail of aerial photo on the part of the component part 01: Development of the village of Stekník in the southern part on an orthophoto map from 1953
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