English Translation

64 - 2 - which also contributed to rapid industrialization, without the well-developed agriculture having suffered; the Skodawerke and the Pilsner Breweries exerted the greatest influence on the development not only of the political, social situation, but also on the general mentality and attitude. Both are German foundations. In 1842 25o German citizens united, founded the "Citizen's Brewery" and called the Bavarian brewer Josef G r o 1 1 into the country, which founded the fame of the Pilsner beer. Before that, beer production in Pilsen was large, but was not yet so set up on export to the whole world. Later, both enterprises were increasingly cschechized, first from below, then from above through conversion into public limited companies. A large part of the Pilsner population recruited from industrial workers who had little sense of social life. The beer did the rest of it and created the type of the Pilsner: a somewhat cumbersome manslaughter, which is difficult to grasp, put in materially, proud of the world reputation of his city, which was founded in beer and Skoda cannons, proudly of its formerly worn folk costume, which has been immortalized in the "sold bride" Smetanas, but in reality is the peasant costume of the German village of Lititz near Pilsen and is no longer needed by the people of Pilsna. Moreover, every child in Pilsen knows that the local prison "Bory" is one of the best-placed in the world, that the Pilsner Museum had the best collection of weapons in the Republic and that the tower of the city church with its lo2 meters is the highest of the whole frotectorate, higher than that of the Veitsdom in Prague. Typical is the continuation of the tradition of the Choden tribe, whose leader K o z i n a was executed in Pilsen. "The Chodens are ours" was hammered into the head of the local population time and again, "we are related to them and have the same national defiance, the same steadfastness, especially in the faith!"