Žatec Hop Museum
The Hop Museum ( Chmelařské muzeum ) is the oldest of the three hop museums in Žatec . It is located right next to the hop and beer temple with its hop lighthouse. About 500 meters further north is the further Muzeum Homolupulů .
history
The region and city of Žatec (Saaz in German) have been a world-famous center of hop growing and trading since the 19th century . Between 1880 and 1930, about 30 hop magazines were (with Darren built and packing rooms) in the city, the city was in the 1970s by a single central warehouse north replaces that since then the biggest Hopfenspeicher of Europe. The hop cooperative converted one of these empty hop stores into a museum.
description
This hop museum deals with the cultivation, harvest, processing and export of Saaz hops. The hop plant finds optimal growth conditions in the shadow of the Ore Mountains . The various work steps in the course of the year are presented in detail. In the second half of the 20th century, up to 80,000 seasonal workers, so-called harvest brigades, were deployed at harvest time until the hop harvest was largely automated. The historical development of hop pressing is also presented, starting with the laborious human pounding in the man-high hop sacks hanging from the false ceilings, through the hop pressing machines to the production of pellets .
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the museum (Czech, the English pages were still very sketchy on May 27, 2018)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 30.2 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 42.4 ″ E