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View of the central part of the Prague Suburb with many hop-related buildings including typical warehouses with chimneys, Žatec, 2005

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ventilation dormers. A specific feature of the urban until the turn of the 18 and 19 centuries, where several
development in Žatec is the visually applied semi-hip other roof structures of these types appeared.
roofs with roof spaces gables facing public spaces with
openings, which were used to transport hops to the roof Throughout the 19 century, the most common type of
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space. It was not until the very end of the 19 century, construction was a hambalek roof structure with one
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and rather exceptionally in the town centre that separate or more levels of longitudinal binding using vertical
buildings were created for drying and storing hops. supporting posts, which are varied, combined, enlarged,
or lightened.
Examples of hop roof spaces of burgher houses
The roof structures of house No. 7 appear to be the oldest,
perhaps as early as the second half of the 17 century,
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according to the building development of the house.
This most common type of roof structure occurring in
the following three centuries on townhouses in Žatec
already appears here. Hambalek system roof structures
are tied in one or two levels by longitudinally oriented
standing stools ("der stehender Stuhl" in German).
This type of roof structure probably offered sufficient
load-bearing capacity for the selected roofing as well as
for the practical use of the roof space.

The oldest layer of roof structures created after fires in
the second half of the 18 century includes both roof
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structures with vertical supporting posts (Nos. 52, 88) and
roof structures with advanced variants of horizontal posts
("der liegender Stuhl" in German), such as on houses Nos.
137 and 30. This pre-classicist construction era lasted
House No. 7 in Obránců Míru St. with "dormer windows" on the roof, Žatec, 2016