List of industrial monuments in Žatec

Typical old industrial picture of Saaz with the many chimneys of the hop drying chambers

The list of industrial monuments in Žatec ( German Saaz) contains the most important industrial monuments , regardless of whether they are listed or not.

In addition to public and commercial buildings, this also includes the numerous hop trading houses that were built for drying and processing hops in the city of Saaz and which still characterize the cityscape of Žatec today. During the founding period after the railway connection 1872–73, numerous factories were built in Saaz, whose historical buildings are of particular cultural and historical value.

For some buildings, it has been proposed to add them to the list of cultural monuments.

Some of the lists can be sorted.

List of industrial monuments

 Map with all the coordinates of the section List of Industrial Monuments : OSM

Former company	Czech name and address	Description of the company	image
Saaz civil brewery, Lorettoplatz 81	Měšťanský pivovar Žatec, Žižkovo náměstí čp. 81 (location)	Origin at Floriansplatz 127, the Saazer Bürgerbräu brewery has been located since 1801 on the site of the former Přemyslid castle , the remains of which are only in the old water tower, 1798–1800 new building according to plans by the city architect Lorenz Rotter, multiple awards in the 19th century (1873 Vienna, 1879 Prague, 1880 Budweis), modernized in the 1890s through renovations based on plans by Alois Daut (1854–1917) and Johann Salomon, in the 1930s renovations by master builder Hildebert Kolbe, nationalized in 1945. The brewery, now modernized and majority-owned by Carlsberg , is located within the city ​​monument reserve in the old town. (Object no. B01)
Wire pin factory and metal goods factory Telatko, Liebotschaner Str. 618	Drátovna Telatko, Svatováclavská čp. 618 (location)	Originally Anton Seidenköhl & Comp. Nail and locksmith factory, then taken over by Leopold Telatko. In 1875 he founded a factory for the manufacture of furniture fittings, decorative nails and wire nails. The founder's son, Karl Telatko, took over the company in 1910, but had to emigrate in 1938, Aryanized in May 1939 and incorporated into a cartel at the headquarters for wire and nail factories in Prague. After 1945 the three companies: Bechert & Co. screw factory, Telatko wire pen factory and Mustad & Sohn hoof nail factory were nationalized and later incorporated into VEB Vereinigte Stahlwerke Kladno, from 1949 the VEB wire and screw factory was established. The Villa Weiss-Telatko by the architect Rudolf Hildebrand stands next to the former company in Boženy Vikové Kunětické čp street. 2069.
Saaz Central Station, Bahnhofstr. 699,700	Hlavní nádraží, Rooseveltova třída čp. 699 and 700 (layer)	From 1870 construction of the station building in late classical style according to a plan by Ing.Chvála in Bahnhofstrasse, commissioning on February 4, 1871 by the Buschtěhrad Railway (BEB), in 1902 construction of an enlarged vestibule with a restaurant pavilion accessible via stairs Plans by Ing.Adolf Schrayer, the station was at the intersection of the Buschtehrad railway with the Pilsen – Priesen (–Komotau) railway .
Sugar factory Robert Koehler, Resselstr. 706, 755, 853	Žatecký akciový cukrovar, Rooseveltova třída čp. 706, 755, 853 (location)	Sugar factory founded by Robert Köhler in 1871, converted into "Saazer Aktien Rübenzuckerfabrik AG" in 1887, its operations manager was Eugen König, building was built by master builder Johann Salomon from Saaz, 1921-22 conversions for a new technology, in 1940 further conversions by the architect and builder Franz Wollenheit, closed in 1999.
Westbahnhof Saaz, Mozartstr. 713	Nádraží Žatec západ, Jana Herbena čp. 713 (location)	Old former station building, erected by the Pilsen – Priesen (–Komotau) railway (EPPK) with locomotive shed No. 238, the station went into operation on 7 September 1873, now used as a residential building. Today's station building is a low-rise building from more recent times.
Wire rope factory Josef Reimann & Co., Stankowitzer Str. 721	Drátovna, Osvoboditelů čp. 721 (location)	Wire rope spinning mill since 1897, Aryanized in May 1939, now Radhof sro
Cardboard box factory Moritz Lüdersdorf, Holletitzer Str. 733	Moritz Lüdersdorf, Kartonážka-Papírny v Žatci, Volyňských Čechů čp. 733 (location)	Cardboard factory, founded by Johann Schöffl in 1866 as a manufactory in the old town, taken over by Moritz Lüdersdorf (1844–1923) in 1873, new construction of the cardboard factory in 1877–78 in Holletitzer Str. 733 (architect Josef Petrovsky), northern extension from 1881–1889 ( Project: Johann Salomon) and in 1909 a southern extension with a secession roof gable was erected, own print shop for printing the boxes, production of packaging for medicines, jewelry, confectionery and cosmetics, was at the end of the 19th century. one of the largest cardboard manufacturers in Austria-Hungary and employed over 300 people. Owned by Moritz Lüdersdorf and his wife until the mid-1930s, then owned by their son Rudolf Lüdersdorf until 1945, nationalized in 1945 and operated as a branch of the VEB Nordböhmische Papierwerke (SEPAP), the business was closed in 1994, the building is now a depot of the regional museum utilized. The associated villa (No. 672) is a listed building. Later there was another cardboard box factory owned by Emil Samuel in Pellasgasse 1053 (Fügnerová), which was Aryanized in 1938 and continued by Emil Kaspar. Samuel survived the camp in Theresienstadt and got the cardboard factory back in 1945. After the February coup in 1948, his company was finally expropriated and he left Czechoslovakia .
First Saaz spruce pitch refinery Ferdinand Lustig & Co., Bahnhofstr. 801	První žatecká rafinerie smoly, Purkyněho čp. 801 (location)	The company was founded in 1884. Aryanized in May 1939, takeover by employees of the company.
Leather factory Jakob Kohn & Söhne, Humanic Leder- und Schuhfabrik AG, Stankowitzer Str. 868 and 1948	Továrna na kůže, Osvoboditelů čp. 868, 1948 (location)	Leather factory, founded in 1888 by the sons of Jakob Kohn, manufacture of colored shoe soles and leather straps, 1889–91 new production and administration building (no. 868) built by Wilhelm Fuchs († 1922), owned by Humanic Leder & after 1908 Schuh AG, a new boiler and machine house (No. 1948) built in the 1920s, the building marked by a red brick facade with geometric ornaments, now the seed company Osex spol., Sro
Saazer Hufnägelfabrik Adolf Mendl´s Erben, later Mustad & Sohn, Beethovenstr. 955	Adolf Mendl, továrna na podkování - Žatecká továrna na podkováky, Mustad a syn, sro, ul. Jana ze Žatce čp. 955 (location)	Adolf Mendl built his first company on the left bank of the Eger in 1875–1878 with a boiler room and engine room (No. 955). a. Manufactured shoe fittings and horseshoe nails. In 1884 the company was taken over by Emilie and Max Mendl (Adolf Mendl's heirs), extensions from 1896 to 1907 by the builder Wilhelm Fuchs. In 1911 Hans Mustad (1837–1918), owner of the Norwegian company Ole Mustad & Son, bought the factory in Saaz. Until the nationalization in 1945 the company was called Saazer Hufnägelfabrik Mustad & Sohn. After 1945 the three companies: Bechert & Co. screw factory, Telatko wire pen factory and Mustad & Sohn hoof nail factory were nationalized and later incorporated into VEB Vereinigte Stahlwerke Kladno, from 1949 the VEB wire and screw factory was established.
First Saaz piano factory Leonhard Sieber, Tscheraditzerstr. 1014	Technické služby města Žatec, Čeradická čp. 1014 (location)	Grand piano and piano factory Leopold Sieber since 1913, the company no longer exists since 1945, now the technical service of the city of Žatec.
Export brewery Anton Dreher, Horatitzer Str. 1042, 1043, 2880	Vývozní Dreherův pivovar, Chomutovská čp. 1042, 1043, 2880 (location)	Anton Dreher junior (1849–1921) was one of the most important beer brewers in the Danube monarchy. In addition to Saaz, he owned breweries in Michelob near Saaz, Brumow near Zlín , Schwechat near Vienna , Budapest and Trieste . Export-Brauerei Saaz (also Urstoff-Genossenschafts-Brauerei), founded in 1898, the buildings designed around 1900 in neo-renaissance style and built by Alois Daut, Johann Solomon and Josef Petrovsky, with facades made of red bricks with details made of sandstone, the bases and the reinforced corners of the house are clad with granite. 1902–03 Expansion by two malt houses and a boiler house. Beer types: Urstoff and St. Hubertus beer, expropriated in 1945, beer production stopped in 1948, from 1951 canning factory (np Severočeské konzervárny) for must and juice production until the 1990s as Fruta Žatec sro, the malting was still in In operation in the 1990s, the entire area has been a listed building since February 11, 2015. (Object no. C01, monument no.105565)
Lackfabrik Bergmann & Deiml, Stankowitzer Str. 954, 1107	Továrna na laky a barvy, Osvoboditelů čp. 954, 1107 (location)	Aryanized in May 1939, now AGROS TISKÁRNA sro
Wire works, wire pin and screw factory Bechert & Co., Bahnhofstr. 846, 1161 and 1176	Bechertova drátovna - Žatecká Šroubárna, Purkyněho čp. 1161, 1176 (location)	founded in 1887 by Leopold Bechert (1840–1921) for the production of wires and wire nails, drawn shoe nails and pegs, extension by Wilhelm Fuchs (around 1900), later traded as Abraham Bechert & Co. and from 1919 as Bechert & Co., Wire pin, screw and steel factory AG. The company employed around 300 people, the last owner Paul Bechert emigrated in 1938, Aryanized in May 1939, new owner Viktor E. Fissené (Neuss). After 1945 the three companies: Bechert & Co. screw factory, Telatko wire pen factory and Mustad & Sohn hoof nail factory were nationalized and later incorporated into VEB Vereinigte Stahlwerke Kladno, from 1949 the VEB wire and screw factory was established, a new hall was built in 1952-54 Operation closed, now Aluminum Centrum sro
Dittersdorf felt factory in Saaz No. 1187	Žatecká továrna plstí a houní, Raisova čp. 1187 (location)	Dittersdorfer Filz- und Kratzentuchfabrik GmbH, founded in 1909, as a branch of a company from Dittersdorf in the Ore Mountains for the production of felt and blankets, later a company of MITOP as for technical textiles based in Mimoň , now HP-Pelzer, sro
German Agricultural Cooperative Saaz, Mozartstr. 1653	Družstevní silo, Jana Herbena čp. 1653 (location)	Six-storey granary of reinforced concrete with cells ventilation in 1930 at the West Station, opposite the Dreher Brewery built design: Schulz & Kling AG Munich, Architect: Max F. stirring, builder: nationalized Jaroslav Gregor from Saaz, 1945, now CHMELCOMPANY, spol. s ro
Bohemia Saaz hops No. 2580	Bohemia Hop, as Žatec, Mostecká čp. 2580 (location)	with the largest hop storage facility in Europe (built in the 1960s)
Iron bridge over the Eger, Bridge Square	Železný most přes Ohří, Husitské náměstí (location)	Origin Erected as a chain bridge by Friedrich Schnirch (1826), demolished in 1891 and rebuilt as an iron truss bridge in 1897, reconstructed in 2001.
Heinrich Schuldes plow and machine factory Saaz, Kupferberg No. 258 at the corner of Pellasgasse	U Odborů / Fügnerová čp. 258 (location)	since 1877
Brickworks, Horatitzer Str. And Alter Berg	Cihelny, Chomutovská and Mostecká čp. 1225	Edmund Stern brickworks (pictured), Hüttl brickworks and Astra-Werke by Alois Kaiser, Alter Berg No. 646
Mills on the former Mühlbach	Mlýny: byv. Špitlový mlýn byv. Sladový mlýn Mlýnářý mlýn, Rooseveltova čp. 568 Mlýn Kreblova, dnes AGRO Žatec, U Oharky čp. 624 (location)	Spittelmühle No. 513 (Spitalmühle) in the lower suburb (no longer exists) Malt mill No. 533 (below the Pflasterberg) owned by the Kröbl brothers in the lower suburb (no longer exists) Grinding mill Leopold Gellert No. 568 (picture) and 569 in the Mühlenvorstadt (also Mlynarsche Mühle) Kröbl mill No. 624 (picture) (turbine roller mill by Karl Kröbl, renewed in 1886, previously lower Neumühle) with its own mill ditch in the Mühlenvorstadt Grinding mill in the "Weißer Berg" corridor started by Josef Löffler (1854), completed by S. Löwy, later Viktoria-Mühle Markus Glaser († 1894) No. 658, with its own weir and mill ditch, owned by the sons Alfred from 1894, Richard and Otto Glaser, the so-called. Judenmühle (no longer exists) New mill No. 409 (no longer exists)	Former Mlynarsche Mill Former Kröbl mill
There was also the Saaz canning factory Melzer & Weiss, since 1877, later "Saaza", Holletitzer Gasse 1004 (Lva Tolstěho) and the Saaz liqueur factory owned by Carl Löbl, Langgasse 111 (Dlouhá); Sigmund Rein, Püschelplatz 208 (Chelčického nám.) And Anton Hofmann, Reitschoweser Str. 1013 (Husova) and the button factory Mendl & Comp. (Knoflíkárna) in the lower suburb No. 436 since 1887

Monument zone in the Prague suburbs (area A)

List of hop trading houses

 Map with all the coordinates of the section List of Hop Trading Houses : OSM

The most important hop stores of the hop trading companies are entered in the list "Památky pěstování a zpracování chmele a výroby piva v Žatci" (Monuments relating to the cultivation and processing of hops and beer production in Saaz) for application for the UNESCO World Heritage Site . They mostly consist of individual buildings for drying and storing hops (Sušárna a sklad chmele).

A total of 96 objects were selected, 75 of them in the monument zone "Hop trade and beer production in the Prague suburbs" (area A), 13 in the urban monument reserve in the old town (area B) and 8 in other areas of the city (area C). Admission to the World Heritage List failed in 2018, but a renewed application with an improved objective is possible.

The column no. Gives the object no. in the application list, see adjacent map.

Hop trading company	Today's address	Description of the company	No.	image
Ladislav Rouček, Nikolaigasse 80	Volyňských Čechů čp. 80 (location)	Hop trading house	A01
Epstein & Siegel, later Epstein & Mendl, Bogengasse 225	Oblouková čp. 225 (location)	The company Epstein & Siegel, founded in 1864 by Salomon and Samuel Epstein and Moises Feigl, built one of the oldest warehouse buildings in Saaz at Bogengasse 225 in 1870. In 1893, Adolf Epstein and Josef Mendl converted the courtyard wing with a new sulfur chamber and Chimney (project by Wilhelm Fuchs).	B11
Wilhelmine and Georg Girschick, Bogengasse 226-227	Oblouková čp. 226-227 (location)	Hop trading house, building No. 227 is a listed building	B04
Jakob Heller, Schützenplatz 233	Kruhové náměstí čp. 233 (location)	Jakob Heller had a hop store with drying rooms and sulfur chamber built according to a project by Josef Petrovsky, which Rudolf Fischbach expanded in 1925. After 1948, the hop warehouse was connected to buildings 226 and 227 in Oblouková Street and served as a storage room. In 2006–2008 it was converted into the “Schwarzer Adler” hotel with a historic facade.	B05
Jakob L. Kohn & Co., Untere Jakobsgasse 250 and Püschelplatz 208/1858	Jakubská čp. 250, Chelčického nám. čp. 208/1858 (location)	Jakob L. Kohn († 1893) was one of the oldest hop traders in Saaz. His company was registered in 1865, from 1877–78 he built a hop store with drying room, one of the first in Saaz. In 1935 the northern part of the building burned down , the southern, preserved part was converted into the residential building Jakobsgasse 250 (picture). House and warehouse on Püschelplatz (next to Villa Kellner), Aryanized in 1938.	A04
Old hop hall of the Saaz Hop Association, Jakobsgasse 290	Tyršova čp. 290 (location)	old hop hall until 1928, later hop warehouse
Pfister & Wüstl, previously Siegfried and Heinrich Melzer since 1881, Fischerplatz 305	nám. Prokopa Velkého čp. 305 (location)	Hop trading house - now the Hop Museum The storage area and the hop packing plants (today's Hop Museum) were gradually built towards the end of the 19th century. The houses no. 305 and no. 1952 belonged to Siegfried Melzer (1848–1934) since 1881. In the years 1898–1900 the company Pfister & Wüstl completed the corner house (No. 490). The same production process took place in the two companies: storage of hops, drying, sulfurizing in the sulfur chamber, pressing into the sacks and packaging. A ballot press from JW Spaeth, Nuremberg, built in 1880 has been preserved in house no. Today in the former warehouses there is an exhibition of the Hop Museum on an area of ​​4000 m², which shows the development of the hop industry from the early Middle Ages to the present day.	A09
Jakob Abeles & Son, Schillerstr. 313	Obránců míru čp. 313 (location)	The two-story house No. 313 with a three-story hop store had David Abeles (1846–1904), the owner of the Jakob Abeles & Son company, built in 1900. The house was built by the builder Fuchs from Saaz on an asymmetrical floor plan with two wings with an inner staircase and a manual winding system for hop bales. The saddlecloths with ceiling beams are supported by wooden pillars, in the rear part there is a sulfur chamber with a high chimney, a preserved hop press protrudes from the ground floor to the upper floor, aryanized in 1938.	A12
Hopfenhaus Kellner, Nikolaigasse 326/1335	Volyňských Čechů čp. 326/1335 (layer)	Hop trading house and packaging from 1894 on Fischerplatz, now nám. Prokopa Velkého (picture), Villa Kellner at Püschelplatz 918, Aryanized in 1938.	A50
Eduard Stein u. Fritz Zentner, Zentner & Stein, Tellweg 345/3017	Zeyerova čp. 345/3017 (location)	Hop store by Eduard Stein as the origin of the company Zentner & Stein founded in 1897, hop kiln by the master builder Josef Stengl (1908) as well as an extension with stables and a small hotel for the hop traders, Aryanized in 1938.	A19
Hop headquarters, Rothüttlplatz 346	Chmelařské nám. čp. 346 (location)	Hop headquarters of the cooperative (Chmelařství Žatecký chmel)	A20
Ferdinand Josef Jacob - old malt house, Goethestr. / Merkurstrasse 356	Masarykova, Nákladní čp. 356 (location)	Town house "Old Malthouse" (Sladovna) from 1681 to 1775, from 1886 to 1916 paint factory of Ferdinand Josef Jacob (1847–1916) - now a malting museum and gallery, a listed building.	A21
Stein, Last Street 361 (3089)	Nákladní čp. 361 (3089) (layer)	Eduard Stein's hop store was the origin of the Zentner & Stein company, founded in 1897
Franz and Carl Jettmar, Rebitzer Platz 380 (formerly Töpferring)	Nerudovo nám. čp. 380 (location)	Hop trading house	A22
Josef Schwarzkopf, Rebitzer Platz (Töpferring) 383 and Uhlandgasse 945	Nerudovo nám. čp. 383, Alšova čp. 945 (location)	Hop warehouse No. 945 by Josef Schwarzkopf (1847–1929) built in 1895, new warehouse No. 383 by master builders Fuchs & Kolbe from Saaz 1910–1913, further expansion in 1925 and 1936, from 1948 together with warehouse No. 835 in the back yard as a hop warehouse used by a hop cooperative.	A23 A38
Edmund Stern, later Franz Adolf Stern, Rebitzer Platz 396 corner of Přikrá (formerly Töpferring)	Nerudovo nám. čp. 396 (location)	Rebitz Square (Nerudovo náměstí) used to be an important hop center, where the largest Saaz hop trading companies had their warehouses and offices. The Edmund Stern company (founded in 1886) had Wilhelm Fuchs build a hop store here from 1888–1889. In 1936, in the possession of Franz Adolf Stern, ventilation bay windows were installed on the roof, and after 1948 the city furnished apartments here.	A26
Brothers Anton and Engelbert Wurdinger, Horatitzer Str. 547 and 1666	Chomutovská čp. 547, 1666 (location)	The drying chamber and hop store of the brothers Anton Wurdinger (1848–1929) and Engelbert Wurdinger (1855–1923) stood on the left bank of the Eger near the Chain Bridge in 1878, after a fire a new two-storey store was built in 1909 (based on a project by Johann Salomon), another drying chamber was located in Goethestr. (Masarykova) No. 751.	C06
Adolf Böhm, Tellweg 687	Zeyerova čp. 687 (location)	Hop trading company Adam Böhm with hop storage from 1890.	A32
Engelbert Wurdinger, later Adolf Schermer, Goethestr. 751	Masarykova čp. 751 (location)	Drying chamber from Wurdinger, built in 1884 by the builder Alois Daut, owned by Adolf Schermer since 1901, conversion of the drying chamber with angular chimney (the only one of its kind in Saaz) by Wilhelm Fuchs (1897–1901).	A34
Gustav Epstein & Adolf Mendl, Schmiedegasse 753 and 1257	Kovářská čp. 753, 1257 (location)	The hop traders and purveyors to the court Gustav Epstein and Arthur Mendl (formerly Epstein, Mendl & Grube) had the Fuchs & Kolbe company (architects Wilhelm Fuchs and Hildebert Kolbe) build a hop warehouse with a sulfur chamber in the Prague suburbs in 1913. The entrance to the area is formed by a gate decorated with hop motifs, to the left of which is camp No. 753, to the right is villa No. 1257 and in the south there was a park with a fountain. The warehouse has six floors (the sixth as an attic floor), the surrounding walls are stiffened by pillars. The front is structured by cornices above the fourth and fifth floors. The wooden beam ceilings are supported by massive wooden pillars that divide the warehouse ceilings into 6 × 3 fields. At the warehouse in the northeast corner is the sulfur chamber with a chimney, a similar extension in the southeast serves as a service staircase. The hop store is still in use today. The building has been proposed for inclusion in the list of cultural monuments.	A35 A49
Josef Bondy, Jakobsgasse 828	Tyršova čp. 828 (location)	Hop trading house, is a listed building	A37
Johann Simon, Wussinallee 837	Komenského alej 837 (location)	Hop trading house	C05
Kaspar Danzer & Co., Rafael Ungar -Straße 860	ul.Rafaela Ungara 860 (location)	Neo-classical building with an E-shaped floor plan for the storage, sulphurisation, packaging and sale of hops, built in the years 1887–1888 (architect: Josef Petrovsky), owned by Asfa AG since 1934, by Deutscher Hopfenverkehr GmbH since 1938, demolished in 2003.	-
Villa Kellner, Püschelplatz 918	Chelčického nám. čp. 918 (location)	Villa Kellner, Aryanized in 1938.	B12
Schiller & Schwarz, Fischerplatz 974	nám. Prokopa Velkého čp. 974 (location)	Hop trading house, four-story building, built in 1896 by Alois Daut	A39
Sonnenschein & Landesmann, Tellweg 977 and 1907	Zeyerova čp. 977, 1907 (location)	Hop trading company Julius Sonnenschein & Samuel Landesmann, built in 1896, trading as the German Hop Transport Company from 1938, presumably Aryanized - now the Hop Cooperative (Družstvo Chmelařství Žatec), intended for inclusion in the list of cultural monuments.	A40 A59
Franz Herzig, Nikolaigasse 1015	Volyňských Čechů čp. 1015 / Komenského alej (location)	Herzig hop trading house, built here around 1895 after the old Nikolaikirche (which was profaned in 1869) was torn down and the Nikolaifriedhof cemetery was lifted and leveled	A41
David Abeles, Edmund Stern until 1900, Rebitzer Platz 1025 (formerly Töpferring)	Nerudovo nám. čp. 1025 (location)	Hop trading company, five-storey building, built in 1883 by Josef Petrovsky, later rebuilt by Salomon (1896), Fuchs (1899) and Kolbe (1928)	A42
Moritz Löbl, Jakobsgasse 1148	Klášterní / Tyršova čp. 1148 (location)	Drying chamber and warehouse of the Löbl hop trading company built by Wilhelm Fuchs (1904-06)	A44
Brothers Klepsch company, previously Julius Sonnenschein, Körnerstr. 739 and 1186	Politických vězňů čp. 739/1186 (location)	Hop trading company, Brothers Klepsch Saaz-Nuremberg-Prague, around 1915 Julius Sonnenschein company	C02
Heinrich Melzer, Tellweg 1192	Zeyerova čp. 1192 (location)	Hop trading house (1888) - now the hop cooperative (Družstvo Chmelařství Žatec), intended for inclusion in the list of cultural monuments.	A45
Karl Ungar, until 1914 Edmund Stern, Rebitzer Platz 1194 (formerly Töpferring)	Nerudovo nám. čp. 1194 (location)	The Ungar family, from which the important priest and librarian in the University Library of Prague Karl Rafael Ungar (1743–1807) came, were also among the hop traders in Saaz. Dr. Karl Ungar († 1909) had the corner property converted into a storage and drying house in 1889–1901 according to plans by Josef Petrovsky, as did the residential building (1897). The four-storey hop store (No. 1194), which originally belonged to the dealer Edmund Stern and was built by the company Fuchs & Kolbe (1909–1914), became a special dominant feature of the town square. The building was constructed in the shape of a cube with facades structured by narrow triple windows and a trimmed corner. The building is now in a monument protection zone and belongs to a hop cooperative. Diagonally opposite is the hop store No. 1025 from 1883, built by David Abeles and bought by Edmund Stern in 1900.	A46
Moritz and David Reiss, Jakobsgasse 1195/810	Klášterní čp. 1195/810 (layer)	Hop trading house	A47
Vinzenz Zuleger, Goethe-Platz 1232	Smetanovo nám., Kovářská čp. 1232 (location)	The Zuleger family was one of the most important hop traders in the Saaz region, founded by Engelbert Zuleger (1813–1889), who moved them to Saaz in 1858, 1913 construction of a hop warehouse (project: Johann Salomon), corner plot with decorative dormers on the three main fronts, Owned by Josef Rott and Co. since 1933, it is still used today as a hop store.	A48
Alfred and Heinrich Windt, Holletitzer Str. 1262	Volyňských Čechů čp. 1262 (location)	Hop trading company Windt und Sommer, Aryanized in May 1939.	-
Herrmann Utschig, Nikolaigasse 1401	Volyňských Čechů čp. 1401 (location)	Hop trading house	A51
Brothers Ernst and Hans Hesselberger, Wussinallee 1532	Komenského alej čp. 1532 (location)	The company of the Hesselberger brothers was founded in Nuremberg in 1825 and was one of the largest hops wholesalers on the Saaz - Nuremberg - Hamburg trade route, owned by Ernst and Hans Hesselberger in the 1920s, new building as a five-storey reinforced concrete construction with a facade by the Nuremberg architect Schippert, built by the Porr company from Teplitz, was one of the largest and most modern facilities in Saaz at that time. The Hesselberger brothers were also partners in the hop wholesalers S. Krakenberger and Hopf & Sons in Nuremberg. In 1937 owned by Löbl & Glaser, since 1939 by Johann Bartl and Son, after 1948 the seat of a hop buying company.	C03
Hop cooperative, Rothüttlplatz 1580	Chmelařské nám. čp. 1580 (location)	Hop cooperative building, erected in 1928 by Johann Salomon, rear extension from 1937	A52
Hop control center and hop signing office, Rothüttlplatz 1612	Známkovna chmele, Chmelařské nám. čp. 1612 (location)	Hop signing office of the cooperative (Chmelařství Žatecký chmel), built 1930–1932 by J. Salomon, J. Zelenka and J. Gregor, the building is a listed building	A53
Löbl & Glaser, Dr Schmeykal-Str. 951/1745	Lva Tolstěho čp. 951/1745 (location)	Hop trading house	-
Karl Zuleger, Dr Schmeykal-Str. 1748	Lva Tolstého čp. 1748 (location)	Hop trading house	C07
Jakob L. Kohn & Co., Püschelplatz 1858	Chelčického nám. čp. 1858 (location)	Jakob L. Kohn († 1893) was one of the oldest hop traders in Saaz. Residential house and five-storey warehouse on Püschelplatz (built 1887), sold to Franz Kellner around 1900, Aryanized in 1938.	B12
J. Paulus & Comp., Jakobsgasse 1937/264	Klášterní čp. 1937/264 (location)	Hop trading company	A60
Rudolf Christl, Goetheplatz 1945	Komenského alej čp. 1945 (location)	Hop trading house and packaging, built 1882–1884 by Alois Daut	A61
Gebrüder Christl, Fischerplatz 1950 and 304	nám. Prokopa Velého čp. 1950 and Miléniova 304 (location)	Hop trading house - now the hop and beer temple CHCHP (Chrám chmele a piva) Karl, Rudolf and Anton Christl founded their hop trade in Nieder-Einsiedel (Poustevna) in 1876 . In Saaz they built a hop store with drying room from 1882–1884 (house no. 1945). In 1910 they bought a hop warehouse with drying room from Karl Kreibich (No. 1950). The current building dates from 1920. It was rebuilt to the hop and beer temple CHCHP (Chram chmele a piva) and received a 40 m high steel observation tower opposite the street, which was built in 1998-2011 according to a project by Huml & Vaníček from Žatec was built. The associated villa No. 304 is on Wussinallee.	A62 A08
K. and W. Kreibich, Fischerplatz 1951	nám. Prokopa Malého čp. 1951 (location)	Hop trading house - now restaurant "U Orloje"	A63
Siegfried and Heinrich Melzer, later Pfister & Wüstl, Fischerplatz 1952	nám. Prokopa Velkého čp. 1952 (location)	Hop trading house - now the Hop Museum The storage area and the hop packing plants (today's Hop Museum) were gradually built towards the end of the 19th century. The houses no. 305 and no. 1952 belonged to Siegfried Melzer (1848–1934) since 1881. In the years 1898–1900 the company Pfister & Wüstl completed the corner house (No. 490). The same production process took place in the two companies: storage of hops, drying, sulfurizing in the sulfur chamber, pressing into the sacks and packaging. Today in the former warehouses there is an exhibition of the Hop Museum on an area of ​​4000 m², which shows the development of the hop industry from the early Middle Ages to the present day.	A64
Hop Institute	Chmelařský institut sro, Kadaňská 2525 (location)	Hop Institute, founded in 1925	-
Hop company, Uhlandgasse 2553/835	Alšova čp. 2553/835 (location)	Hop trading house	-
Hop company, station steps 2924	Nádražní schody 2924 (location)	Hop trading house	-
Hop company, station steps 2925	Nádražní schody 2925 (location)	Hop trading house	-	Image is missing
Bode & Voigt Saaz, Rebitzer Platz (Töpferring)	Nerudovo nám. (Location)	Hop trading company Bode & Voigt Saaz-Nürnberg-New York	-	Image is missing
A. Hanslik jun.	?	Hop trading company	-	Image is missing
Saazia Vereinigte Hopfenhandelsgesellschaft mbH, Saaz	?	Hop trading company (existed until 1928)	-	Image is missing

Saaz architects and builders and their most important buildings

• Anton Grim (1811–1868), builder in Saaz
  • Town hall, reconstruction 1846–47 and 1857–58
  • City theater (1848–49) based on a design by Schulze
  • Exterior renovation of the deanery church of the Assumption in the years 1857–58
  • St. Antoniuskirche (1873) in the cemetery

• Josef Petrovsky (1846–1915)
  • his house at Wussinallee No. 840 (now Komenského alej) next to the gym
  • Lüdersdorf cardboard factory (middle building 1877–78) Holletitzer Str. No. 733 (now Volyňských Čechů)
  • Hop trading house Edmund Stern (1883), Töpferring 1025 (now Nerudovo nám.)
  • Evangelical Christ Church (1898)
  • Evangelical-Lutheran parsonage at Reitschoweser Str. No. 1200 (now Husova) based on plans by Karl Lehrmann
  • old Polyclinic Karlovy Vary Street No. 814 (now Smetanova námešti) and corner house No. 827
  • Corner house Wussinallee No. 300 (now Komenského alej)
  • Grufthaus Lüdersdorf on the Antoniusfriedhof

• Johann Salomon (1855–1942)
  • Kröblmühle No. 624 in the Mühlenviertel
  • Saaz sugar factory in the station district
  • Lüdersdorf cardboard factory (north building 1881–1889 and south building 1909) Holletitzer Str. No. 733 (now Volyňských Čechů)
  • his house in Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Str.Nr. 1030 (now Studentská)
  • Vinzenz Zuleger hop trading house, Schmiedegasse No. 1232 (now Kovářská)
  • Hop cooperative building (1928), Rothüttlplatz No. 1580 (now Chmelařské nám.)

• Alois Daut (1854–1917), city architect
  • Citizen School Wussinallee No. 749 (now Komenského alej) based on plans by Carl Schlimp
  • Aqueduct from the White Mountain Waterworks (Bílý vrch) to the town (1894)
  • Hop trading company Engelbert Wurdinger Karlsbader Gasse No. 751 (now Masarykova)
  • Hop trading house Gebrüder Kellner on Fischerplatz (now called Prokopa Velkého)
  • Hop trading house Josef Schwarzkopf, Uhlandgasse No. 945 (now Alšova)
  • Hop trading house Schiller & Schwarz at Fischerplatz 974 (now called Prokopa Velkého)
  • Hop trading house Rudolf Christl on Goetheplatz 1945 (now Komenského alej)
  • Residential houses on Floragasse No. 1093, 1121, 1125, 1135 and 1136 (now Dukelská)
  • Town hall in Postelberg
  • Cemetery chapel in Postelberg

• Wilhelm Fuchs (1850-1922)
  • Fuchs & Kolbe Körnerstr. No. 1227 (now Politických vězňů) together with Hildebert Kolbe
  • Fuchs Villa in Holletitzer Str. No. 1262 (now Volyňských Čechů), previously he lived in Villa Holletitzer Str. No. 1012 (now Volyňských Čechů)
  • Saaz Hufnägelfabrik Adolf Mendl's heirs
  • Leather factory Jakob Kohn & Sons
  • Saaz high school based on plans by Ernst Schäfer
  • Hop trading house Epstein & Mendl, Bogengasse 225 (now Oblouková) (1893)
  • Hop trading house Epstein & Mendl, Schmiedegasse 753 and 1257 (now Kovářská, 1913)
  • Moritz Löbl hop trading house, Jakobsgasse No. 1148 (now Klášterní / Tyršova, 1904-06)
  • Hop trading house Karl Ungar, Rebitzer Platz 1194 (now Nerudovo nám., Renovation 1909–1914)
  • Building of the Austro-Hungarian bank branch Prager Gasse No. 236 (now tř. Obránců míru)
  • Neo-Renaissance castle (1898–1901) in Neusattel near Saaz (Nové Sedlo)

• Hildebert Kolbe (1866–1945)
  • Residence Körnerstr. No. 1572/1573 (now Politických vězňů)

• Josef Heinzl (1891–1945 in Postelberg)
  • Heinzl & Schmucker Saaz / Swojetin office in Jakobsgasse No. 2016 (now Tyršova)

• Yaroslav Gregor
  • Primary school Pestalozzi-Gasse No. 1404 (now Svatováclavská), together with Hildebert Kolbe (1926)
  • Grain silo made of reinforced concrete (1930), Mozartstr. 1653 (now Herbena), at the Westbahnhof

• Rudolf Hildebrand (1886–1947), architect in Prague
  • Villa Glaser, Pellasgasse No. 2051 (now Fügnerova)
  • Villa Weiß-Telatko, Kaadner Str.No. 2069 (now Boženy Vikové Kunětické)

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Žatec
• List of streets and squares in Žatec

Web links

Commons : Industrial monuments in Žatec  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical topography of the Žatec cultural heritage (accessed June 30, 2015)
2. ↑ European Heritage Day - EHD 2012 (accessed on June 28, 2015)
3. ↑ Regional Museum Žatec-Industrie (accessed June 30, 2015) (Czech)
4. ↑ Seifert, Adolf: The history of the bourgeois brewing in Saaz. A commemorative publication to celebrate the centenary of the bourgeois brewery, founded in 1801, written on behalf of the laudable brewing committee. Saaz, self-published by the Saazer Bürgerbräu brewery, 1901, 323 pp.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} The Jews of Saaz, tables and statistics (accessed on June 29, 2015)
6. ↑ Leather factory Jakob Kohn's Sons (accessed June 30, 2015)
7. ↑ Dreher Brewery (accessed July 7, 2015)
8. ↑ Dreherův pivovar (accessed June 29, 2015) (Czech.)
9. ↑ Exhibition of the Regional Museum Žatec (December 3, 2015 to December 31, 2016)
10. ↑ Saaz - City of Hops - Monuments relating to the cultivation and processing of hops and beer production in Žatec ( Memento from July 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 1, 2015) (Czech)
11. ↑ List of suggestions for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Žatec (accessed on July 4, 2015)
12. ↑ World Heritage fails (accessed November 8, 2018)
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Aryanized houses in Saaz, tables and statistics (accessed on June 29, 2015)
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Porta fontium - Bavarian-Czech archive guide (accessed on September 18, 2015)
15. ↑ image of the company. Brothers Wurdinger (1940) (accessed on 9 July 2015)
16. ↑ Epstein & Mendl (accessed July 7, 2015)
17. ↑ Erich Hentschel: Das Buch von Saaz and the Saazer Land, Balve, 1987, p. 134
18. ↑ ČESKÝ CHMEL - CZECH HOPS, 2013 (English / Czech) (accessed on July 17, 2015)
19. ↑ Josef Wara: Saaz, hop growing and hop trade, Ippoldt publishing house, Saaz, 1915
20. ↑ KODA company directory (accessed on January 19, 2016) (Czech)
21. ↑ Wild expulsion - Family Windt / Sommer (accessed on July 19, 2015)
22. ^ History of the S. Krakenberger hop wholesaler, Nürnberg-Saaz (accessed on Sept. 21, 2015)
23. ↑ Hop Institute Žatec (accessed on September 18, 2015)
24. ↑ ^{a b c} Tour of hop-growing buildings in Žatec, Tourist Information Center, 2020 (engl.)
25. ↑ ^{a b} Bavarian State Archives ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 18, 2015)
26. ↑ Milada Krausová: Za žateckými architekty, Žatec, Regionální muzeum KA Polánka, 2015, 44 p. (Saazer Architekten) (Czech.)

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