From a landscape of nature and castles to the edge of Dante's Hell The enormous Western capital of the Anglo-Austrian Bank and the Rothschild Creditanstalt very quickly breathed a completely different context into the region known for its wild nature, picturesque castles and peaceful spas. A network of sidings, new...
While Prague in the second half of the 19th century was living through a romantic Czech national revival, building theaters and campaigns for the purity of the Czech language, in Northern Bohemia people spoke the language of money, technology and coal. The northern borderland was an economic superpower...
Bílinská and Zaječická on the wheels of the century of steam. In the year when Jules Verne's "20 Leagues Under the Sea" was hot news, the track of a new technical innovation, the steam railway, cut through Bílina. Although it was intended primarily to supply Prague with coal from the brown coal basin,...
From the landscape of nature and castles to the edge of Dante's Hell The enormous Western capital of the Anglo-Austrian Bank and the Rothschild Creditanstalt very quickly breathed a completely different context into the region known for its wild nature, picturesque castles and peaceful spas. The network of sidings, new locomotives, new mining mechanization and the giant dock in Aussig on the Elbe River (Ústí nad Labem) directly encouraged investments in the construction of industrial plants, the production of glass, ceramics, textiles, and chemical industries of all types. Northern Bohemia offered...
While Prague in the second half of the 19th century was living a romantic Czech national revival, building theaters and campaigns for the purity of the Czech language, in Northern Bohemia people spoke the language of money, technology and coal. The northern border region was an economic superpower of European size, which kept the rest of the monarchy afloat financially and in terms of raw materials. The establishment of the Anglo-Austrian Bank The bank was founded in December 1863 and fully developed its activities in 1864 with its headquarters in Vienna. Behind its establishment...
Bílinská and Zaječická on the wheels of the century of steam. In the year when Jules Verne's "20 Leagues Under the Sea" was hot news, the track of a new technical innovation, the steam railway, crossed Bílina. Although it was intended primarily to supply Prague with coal from the brown coal basin, the penultimate stop before coal loading was Bílinská Kyselka. A loading building was therefore built and production capacity reached the values usual to this day. Before 1870 The establishment of the Prague-Duchcov Railway (PDE), as its Czech name...