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walls. The roof spaces contain authentic evidence not and any work on them even in interiors is subject to
only in the form of load bearing structures and typical a detailed review and closely monitored. Those are
dormers but there are also written or scratched mainly burgher houses, sacral buildings, office and
notes, comfortable staircases for easy access to public administration buildings.
the lofts and fire doors which protect the lofts from
the rest of the building. In the Prague Suburb the Immediately south of the Urban Heritage Reserve
authenticity of more recent hop-related buildings of the historic town centre is the Urban Heritage
with unique functions has been preserved including Zone which was established to protect the industrial
some parts of technology. The buildings containing heritage there. The designation is pursuant to
the sulphurisation chambers have high chimneys for Regulation of the Ministry of Culture no. 108/2003 Coll.
flue gas removal; hop warehouses have shutters on of 1 April 2003 on the designation of areas with historic
the windows to shade the storage area from the light heritage in some towns and villages as heritage areas
etc. The majority of the buildings have neither been and on the stipulation of the protective requirements.
converted to other functions nor modified. Thanks The process of designating important structures
3. Justification for Inscription social changes, including changes of ownership in the heritage assets is subject to a detailed review and any
protected cultural heritage assets in this part of
to their structural quality, layout and quality of
the property also has continued. Within the entire
architecture they have been used for their original
purpose to present times, despite major economic and
component part 02 any maintenance on the cultural
first half of the 20 century. The authentic mass of the
modifications of all other properties including public
th
spaces, maintenance of woody plants and landscaping
buildings and the details referring to hop processing
are carefully monitored during all refurbishment and
are also regulated.
restoration projects.
The hop fields located in the nominated property
and its buffer zone are also protected under Act no.
97/1996 Sb., on Protection of Hops. This act not only
3.1.e PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT
sets forth the requirements for certification, quality

REQUIREMENTS
control, blending, treatment and introduction of the
commodities into circulation, which are subject to
PROTECTION MECHANISM hop common market organisation, but it also defines
160 Both component parts of the nominated property state administration responsibilities including state
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops are already supervision over compliance with the European
protected or will be protected in the near future under Community obligations declared in international
the National Act no. 20/1987 Coll., on the National treaties.
Heritage Protection as amended in combination with
other protective regimes stemming from this act The entire area of the nominated property, including
which include the following ones: its buffer zone, is also protected by the Protected
Designation of Origin which is a guarantee that the
For component part 01 with hop fields, a Landscape quality of hops grown in this area is primarily or
Heritage Zone has been outlined for designation which exclusively determined by the special geographic
includes the already protected village of Stekník (since conditions combined with unique natural and
1995) and its wider surroundings. The designation human factors and the production, processing and
process affects many corporate bodies and individuals. preparation is linked to the designated geographical
The completion of Saaz Hop Landscape Heritage Zone region.
is expected in 2021.
The long tradition of land use planning in the Czech
At present the cultural values of component part 01 Republic in which the heritage protection bodies
are administratively protected by means of the Land have always been involved helped to apply protective
Use Plan (spatial plan) of the village of Zálužice. measures aimed at the preservation of cultural
and historical values in the nominated landscape
The cultural values of component part 02 are fully to the maximum degree possible. In the preserved
protected by law namely by two decrees of the component part 01, as well as in the urban structure of
Ministry of Culture which, step by step, delineated component part 02, no major changes are envisaged
close heritage areas. In the north it is a more compact in the future which is also documented by the
area from the point of view of its architecture and it requirements of the valid land use and spatial plans,
is protected as the Urban Heritage Reserve. It was specifically the Land Use Plan of Zálužice and the Land
designated as a heritage area by the Ministry of Use Plan of the town of Žatec. These plans envisage
Education and Culture already in 1961 (Decree ref. No. the use of the landscape for the same crop production
36,568/61-V/2). Moreover, currently (2020) there are and maintaining the structure of the village of Stekník
140 individually protected cultural heritage assets unchanged; as for Žatec the plan clearly defines the