Cooperative chicory dryer and mill in Lhota pod Libčany

Cultivation of chicory is almost unknown in our country today, but in the past this crop was very popular in North-Eastern Bohemia and brought many peasants considerable resources. It came to our countries at the beginning of the 19th century, even though imports from Prussia still prevailed at that time. Later, the first factories for its processing were also established, in 1804 the factory of the Günther company was established in Mochtín near Klatov, and in the middle of the same...