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Cattle market

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Name:: Cattle market
Description:: 1. The cattle market occupied the corner of Vožická / Blanická streets. That little house with a booth is nothing other than the Cooperative Weighbridge. Cattle and wagons with hay (grain) were weighed here. Today Kovošrot Praha stands on this site. It existed in this form roughly until 1965. Although it had long ceased to serve its original purpose, it was a place where circuses arrived every year or fairground festivities were held.
I do not think this is an exhibition, but a cattle market. My parents and grandparents said that famous cattle markets were held here, from which they also profited because they owned an inn. The markets took place every month from April to October. For the town it was a fairly important location. Farmers came here from a wide area (Vožice, Sedlčany, Jistebnice), and among others this was where Tábor butchers came for meat.
If you are interested in the colourful details connected with this place, this trade was controlled (using mafia-like methods) by estate owners from Dub near Ratibořské Hory. Everything ended with the Nazi occupation. Even then the farmers did not give up. They drove cattle through the forest toward Tábor and slaughtered them at an agreed place (and time) near Záluží. Women waited there and then infiltrated the meat into the town by various ingenious methods so as to avoid the finance guards. One of the aerial bombs also fell here when the Americans bombed the railway station.
The chimney in the background stood in the stoneworks premises on Zavadilská Street, where there was a steam saw for cutting stone blocks. The Tábor heating plant was built 25 years later. In the background is the old railway station, which was much closer to Vožická Street. It took on its present form and was rebuilt during the war, when the depot was also built, the bridge over the station was extended, additional tracks were added... Jiří Čikeš
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Year:: 1926
Author:: Šechtl & Voseček archive
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Keywords:: cow
Material:: negative13x18
Categories:: Working
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Location:: 664/7

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