Cooperative chicory dryer in Bydžovská Lhotka

The cultivation of chicory should have reached Bohemia around 1820, but it did not become widespread until after 1888, when a duty was imposed on the import of chicory. One of the places where chicory took hold was Královéhradecky. At first, chicory was dried in disused and abandoned brick kilns, but around 1880, narrowly specialized buildings began to be built for this purpose, with the first such…