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- Title
Cukrovar v Litoli a podnikatelská rodina Beniesů.
- Authors
Novotný, Michal
- Abstract
The paper familiarizes the reader briefly with the history of the sugar factory established in the years 1871/1872 in Litol, which is a part of the town of Lysá upon Elbe today. Special attention is paid to the owners of the sugar factory, the entrepreneurial family of the Vienna financiers, brothers Jindřich, Michael and David Benies, who bought the factory in 1887 and made it a part of the family "sugar empire". In its heyday - during the company's management by Michael Benies († 1923) - the sugar factories in Litol and Černožice and the sugar refinery in Rosice near the town of Pardubice formed the backbone of the enterprise. Besides the property-right development, the paper focuses on the impact of the factory upon the municipality's building development. In the case of Litol, the "organic" housing development consisting of the sugar makers' villas and working class and clerks' housing was the most natural factor, which contributed to the gradual connection of the independent municipality of Litol with the town of Lysá upon Elbe. This factor - in the case of the villas and one-family houses - dictated a qualitative standard of the housing in the developing settlement. In the author's opinion, after closing down the sugar factory, recent demolishment of its building (one of the last buildings was demolished in 2009) and establishing of a parking place at the site of the former factory, the urbanistic situation and the site as such lost its legibility and quality, respectively. Also, an alone standing cubistic villa designed by the architect Emil Králíček remained as a monument of a one-time sugar factory.
- Subjects
CZECH Republic; SUGAR industry; SUGAR factories; FAMILY-owned business enterprises; BENIES, David; BENIES, Michael; BENIES, Jindrich; HISTORY
- Publication
Listy Cukrovarnicke a Reparske, 2010, Vol 126, Issue 9/10, p328
- ISSN
1210-3306
- Publication type
Article