English Translation

=2= itself. The craft guilds with their guild master at the top were not infrequently counted among the most influential factors in the various administrative authorities, in the municipalities, in countries, even in the state, in which in the fifth and second centuries more forms of guilding were created, which extended their sphere of activity over larger areas and later over the whole country. Thus, the craft associations gained more and more influence and became the most respected institutions, which, by virtue of their strength, had no small influence on the organization of the economy as well as on the legal relations in the state. It is no coincidence that laws still exist today, whose validity date back centuries. There remain landmarks of once established and legally not unnoticed associations, from the time when the craft stood in full bloom and the narration still reminds of it today with the motto "craft has golden ground". It would be far too little if only what was led to these times would have been remembered and the work itself, for which the guilds were created, would have sunk into the past. However, what is created with laborious diligence cannot be blurred even over the centuries. Thus we find everywhere the bronze witnesses of artisanal creation that arose at the time when both the artisanal associations were a powerful bulwark in the state, as well as the handicraft work stood in full bloom. And if we wander through Prague today and look at the magnificent palaces, the bridges, the artistic gates, iron bars, monuments, think- ings and not least the beautiful churches with the cathedral of Prague at the top, then the venerable memory of those masters who created these works, who created with an artistic hand, with laborious tenderness and never-ending force, imperishable witnesses of their work. The development of modern technology, the industrialization of some branches of industry and, last but not least, the economic and political development of the conditions at the turn of the century.