Planning a return to the Austrian market (1946)

Planning a return to the Austrian market (1946)

This document from the late summer of 1946 is another fascinating piece of evidence of how precisely and ambitiously the Lobkowicz spring business was run in the immediate aftermath of the war. While the Treaty for America (March 1947) represented a bold leap into the "New World", this Austrian...
Max Lobkowicz's Last Great Export Plan (1947)

Max Lobkowicz's Last Great Export Plan (1947)

In our museum archive we keep a document that is an eloquent testimony to the ambitions and international fame of the Bílina springs. It is a contractual amendment from March 9, 1947, signed by the Directorate of the Max Lobkowicz Springs in Bílina. This document is not just a dry legal document...
New factory building (1898)

New factory building (1898)

In 1888, a new Franz Josef spring was drilled. From this spring, water had to be carried day and night on backs in baskets to the warehouse, and the empty bottles still had to be transported by cable car to the second bottling plant. This of course increased costs considerably. In order to...
Café Pavilion (1891)

Café Pavilion (1891)

From the Prague Exhibition Grounds to the Bílina Park 1891 • Provincial Jubilee Exhibition in Prague This event spontaneously became a kind of symbol that Bohemia, part of the Austrian Monarchy, was moving towards the ideal of an independent nation-state. And thanks to its industry and powerful...