page_title: Mladá Vožice
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Mladá Vožice / History / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Chateau in Mladá Vožice, Czech Republic Čeština: Zámek v Mladé Vožici
context_page_description: Mladá Vožice is a town in Tábor District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic It has about 2,700 inhabitants. It has about 17 km north-east of Tábor.
context_section_description: There used to be a district court in Mladá Vožice, a forestry administration office, a tax office, a gendarme office, a financial pension control, a chemist, two physicians, two veterinarians and a gelder, a notary, two lawyers, two taxis, two hotels, six pubs with three skittles, and three cartmen. There also was an almshouse, a poor hospital, an orphanage, a post office and the cinema Legie (Legion) of the Czech Legionary club. There were four small savings banks and representatives of 4 insurance companies. Mladá Vožice held annual markets, monthly markets and cattle markets, and Thursday piglet markets.
  The citizens of Mladá Vožice and surroundings were employed mainly on the count farm, at the sawmill, brickyard, brewery and fish hatchery, they worked on other farms in the area, local distilleries but also in the Vožice quarry, slaughterhouse, agricultural cooperative and granary, mills, state stud farm or were employed in the forest administration.
  After 1918 there were also two car repair services, a hosiery mill, laundry and pressing shop as well as a steam power plant, which was later taken over by the company Jihočeské elektrárny (South Bohemian power plants] in Mydlovary near České Budějovice. By 1945 there were 74 various craftsmen and 37 various shops in the town. There was also a small furniture factory and two building companies.
  Mladá Vožice citizens made a living by cutting wood for households, bringing water from the fountains, and picking fruit. In the 19th and early 20th centuries they went to work to the gold mine Roudný. Apart from the above mentioned jobs they found seasonal and round-the-year ones all over the republic and before around Austria–Hungary.
  The town and neighbourhood of Mladá Vožice was a purely agricultural area until 1945, and the change towards industrialization only began after the liberation. Until 1947 Mladá Vožice had been a court district in the political district of Tábor which occupied an area of 268 square kilometres and had 17,422 inhabitants in 141 villages and remote settlements, associated in 39 political municipalities. It had two towns, Mladá Vožice and Miličín, and one township Kamberk (formerly Zlaté Hory, before that Kamberk). It ranked among the purest Czech regions by nationality.
  Since 1949, after the change in the political and state system, Mladá Vožice was included in the newly established district of Votice in Prague Region. After the land reorganization of 1960 Mladá Vožice fell under the district of Tábor in South Bohemian Region. In 1975–1980 small villages and hamlets were unified with the town of Mladá Vožice under one national committee (i.e. town council as used between 1945–1990) but after 1989 some of the villages recovered their independence.
caption: Castle
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