STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 203, sig. 109-2/104 (damaged)

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29 abandoned mining companies to the east of the city are still waiting for the development, which until now has failed again and again due to the lack of capital, here the possibility to make the economic power of the area, perhaps also in connection with the Reichswerken Hermsnn Göring in Linz, the four-year Plsn, difficult to use. On the other hand, the products of Rdswerke in interaction in Budweis, which has a strong iron-processing industry, could be processed into finished tobacco. The wood wealth of the Bohemian Forest can also be used in Budweis and Ungeigt for the production of new materials. The establishment of a wood research institute should be considered in this context. As the headquarters of the central authorities, in particular the Chamber of Commerce, Budweis is better known than elsewhere the needs and necessity in the Bohemian Forest. Lifting of tourism, installation of water structures in the upper reaches of the Vltava River, telling new roads and all other plans for public investment vihren origin in Budwei. The city is also the centre of the South Bohemian electrical industry. If this old-established and natural economic provocation is not restored, which is only possible through the closest connection to a unified whole, then an essential prerequisite for the vieder strength of Germanism in Budweis will always be missing. 5.) Culturally, Budweis was the centre of the Bähmerwald in earlier times as the seat of a diocese. A large number of high-schools and technical schools offered the atonement of the Bohemian Forest an opportunity to study all kinds of things. The most important artistic and cultural collections of South Bohemia, which is estimated to be worth around Ri 6.000.O00.---, are located in the Budweiser Museum. The only major theatre in South Bohemia is in our city and played the whole winter and prühling until 1918.