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...
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...
A view of us from the outside Description of Bílina, Teplice and Zaječice in the bible of European spa tourism In his book, James Johnson captured life in Teplice and Bílina in a unique way. And he did so from an extremely interesting perspective for us, that is, from an impartial perspective, unfamiliar with our circumstances. That...
1840 • Bílinské digestive pastilles The phenomenon that gave rise to the classic heartburn pastille At the beginning there was a small idea of how to concentrate the healing effect of the spa spring into a "smaller" and more compact form, combined with improving its taste. At the end there was a phenomenon that...
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,...
This historical paradox, where a synthetic pharmaceutical product has benefited from the fame of a natural source for decades, despite having a completely different composition, is a fascinating chapter in the history of marketing. The birth of the global brand Sedlitz In the 18th and 19th centuries, the name of the small village of Sedlec...
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 ropeway to the second bottling plant. This, of course, significantly increased costs. In order to concentrate the work on one site, a new large building was added in 1898 by the princely building and royal court advisor, Professor A. Sáblík. It contained a magnificently furnished bottling plant, two large bottle washing rooms equipped with the most modern...
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 national state. And thanks to its industry and the huge capacity of natural resources, such as the coal of the Duchcov-Most brown coal basin, Bohemia showed its level of readiness. At that time, the Czechs were considered the most advanced European nation that did not yet have its own national state. This symbolism...
A view of us from the outside Description of Bílina, Teplice and Zaječice in the bible of European spas In his book, James Johnson captured life in Teplice and Bílina in a unique way. And from an extremely interesting point of view for us, that is, an impartial point of view, unfamiliar with our circumstances. This also led to Johnson not understanding some things completely accurately, for example the exact genesis of the idea of "Sedlce powders". However, what we read completely accurately are Johnson's immediate feelings. The book by the doctor and globetrotter James Johnson, whose title...
1840 • Bílinské digestive pastilles The phenomenon that gave rise to the classic heartburn pastille At the beginning there was a small idea of how to concentrate the healing effect of the spa spring into a "smaller" and more compact form, combined with improving its taste. At the end there was a phenomenon that has survived to this day as a classic bicarbonate digestive pastille, which is still produced in its artificial form under various names in many parts of the world today. After centuries of use, Bílinská kyselka has become a basic...
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...
This historical paradox, where an artificial pharmaceutical product has benefited from the fame of a natural source for decades, despite having a completely different composition, is a fascinating chapter in the history of marketing. The birth of the global brand Sedlitz In the 18th and 19th centuries, the name of the small village of Sedlec (Sedlitz) near Most became a worldwide synonym for health and cleanliness due to the fame of the most fashionable of European spa towns, Teplitz in Bohemia. While unique natural springs such as Zaječická bořká voda gushed forth in this region, pharmacies...