Podpora starých map při vyhledávání cukrovarnických krajin na území České republiky
| Title in English | Support of old maps in searching for sugar industry landscapes in the territory of the Czech Republic |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Description | The sugar boom lasted for at least 100 years in the territory of the present-day Czech Republic. Sugar beet cultivation changed the country's pre-industrial landscape more than any other industrial activity. The oldest sugar factories were established in the first decade of the 19th century. The locations of this production can practically only be traced with the help of contemporary maps (cadastral mapping, Second Military Survey). After 1850, at the time of the onset of the main wave of the Industrial Revolution, numerous sugar factories were founded. In this case, their localization is mainly assisted by the maps of the Third Military Survey. At the time of the transition of agriculture to sugar beet cultivation, the free potential sugar beet production areas appeared to be mainly extensively used plains of valley floodplains and adjacent low river terraces. These areas can be documented by comparing the depictions of forest, meadow and pasture areas in the valley floodplains and the low river terraces near them. At the beginning of the 20th century, the sugar boom peaked. The locations of sugar factories of this time can be documented according to the reamled Austrian maps of the Third Military Survey, edited in the 1920s. The high production of beet sugar continued even after the Great Depression, and some companies and beet production areas were captured in the first aerial photographs of the territory of Czechoslovakia. The post-war period is covered by military topographic maps in the S-1952 system. |