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The territory of Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops on a military topographic map 1 : 10,000 from the 1960s

2. Description

Orthophoto maps were created more or less map makes it possible to compare (in comparison with
138 simultaneously with the military mapping the map from the 1950s) what changes have occurred
of 1 : 25,000 (in the case of Žatec in the same year 1953), in the landscape and settlements in the past 10–15
so they enable mutual comparison of both sources, years, that is already in the changed social conditions.
ie, the real image with its cartographic interpretation.
The pictures show very well the development of In the area of the component part 01, however,
settlements (especially the roofscape). You can not many changes can be traced in this period, as
also distinguish the ruins of buildings at that time the whole area is long-term stable both in terms
(buildings without roofs or demolished) when after of landscape organisation, including hop fields,
a demographic change, many buildings that had the settlement network, and the size of individual
fallen into disrepair and other details that even the villages. More significant changes are noticeable
more detailed map does not capture. 6 in Žatec, especially with regard to the north-south
road stretch. The extent of hop fields within the
In the 1960s, a colour military topographic map town has already been significantly reduced. The
was created for the then Czechoslovakia at a scale Lower Suburb is captured at the very beginning
of 1 : 10,000 giving details of depictions of landscapes of mass housing construction. Due to the marked
and settlements that were not available until then. factory chimneys, a dense network of industrial hop
Hop fields are shown here really clearly. A great benefit kilns is clearly visible in the Upper (Prague) Suburb
is also the determination of the type of agricultural (individually and elsewhere). The map makes it
construction related to it (hop kiln, hop picking plant, possible to distinguish brick buildings (orange-pink
JZD-United Agricultural Cooperative, STS/machine colour, similar to the maps of the stable cadastre)
tractor station, etc). The time of the creation of the from wooden buildings (yellow).

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6 In the second half of the 20 century, the unhappy situation in the field of cadastral maps and registration of private rights to real estate deepened
in the then socialist Czechoslovakia, which continued even after the adoption of some laws. New land maps were gradually made on the basis of the
results of technical and economic mapping - THM (1961–1981), later based on the results of the creation of a large-scale basic map - ZMVM (1981–
1992). The comprehensive establishment of real estate records (KZEN), during which the current legal relations to real estate were ascertained and
recorded, took place in the years 1964–1988. The use of these sources to understand the development of the landscape and settlements is possible,
but due to the fragmentation of the material and different times of origin difficult and not very effective. For this purpose, it is possible to make better
use of other cartographic sources, available nationwide and from a relatively short period of time, in addition, relatively regularly updated. However,
the archiving and availability of current digital vector map works has not yet been resolved.