Zatec (Czech: Žatec, German: Saaz) is a city of Czechia in Bohemia, Usti nad Labem Region[?].
Zatec is the centre of the extensive hop trade with over 700 years long tradition of growing and producing of this plant.
From the outbreak of the Hussite Wars to the Thirty Years' War Zatec was Hussite or Protestant, but after the Battle of White Mountain (1620) the greater part of the Czech inhabitants left the town, which became German and Roman Catholic.
Around the year 1400, Jan of Zatec, the author of the "Ploughman of Bohemia," was rector of the town's School of Latin.
Among those who with Zatec roots who returned to mark the millennium celebration was a descendent of the unfortunate mayor, who himself fled the town some 350 years later, because of Communist oppression, first to the United States and later to South Africa.
She was born in Zatec, or Saaz, where her father was director of the high school up until the end of the war.
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It is one of the finest examples of functinal industrial architecture from the end of the 19th centiry to be found in Zatec, famous all over the world for the finest hops.
Those of Zatec, Most, Kadan, Klatovy and Rakovnik clearly show than in those days hops were grown both in gardens and fields.
The hops begun to be sorted into the categories of minicipal, district and regional hops and were legally established at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Zatec brewery has been brewing beer in the small town with the same name in the region of Zatec, better known by its German name of Saaz since 1004.
The region of Zatec was annexed by the Germans during World War Two, becoming part of the Sudatenland and then suffered during the communist era that followed.
Zatec has had to compete with much more famous Czech brands such as Budweiser Budvar and Staupromen but has firmly established itself in its native country and is beginning to export into Britain.
Zatec / Saaz is a small town in the north of Czechia, and it is the centre of hop-growing.
Zatec has a nice townsquare, a medieval towngate, an old synagoge, that it under restoration at the moment and in the centre of the townsquare you see the townhall, where you may climb up the tower to have a prefect panorama-view.
The South Korean car maker Hyundai has told the Czech Republic it will not be building its 1.5 billion-dollar car plant in the north-west Bohemian town of Zatec, and will be looking to neighbouring Slovakia or Poland instead.
The Czech Republic had offered Hyundai its Triangle industrial zone, on the outskirts of Zatec.
The mayor of Zatec said Hyundai had made a big mistake, and that conditions in the area were unique.
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De hopcultuur rankt als groene draad doorheen het verbroederingsproces van Poperinge, Belgies hopmetropool, en een andere Europees hopcentrum: Zatec in het Saazgebied, Tsjechische republiek.
Concreet wordt aldus om de 3 jaar met Zatec een jeugduitwisseling opgezet.
Zatec eert het hopfenomeen tijdens een volkfeest waarop Poperinge van harte wordt uitgenodigd.
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