 People brewed beer in the 16th and 17th centuries.A brewery was built near Long cellar in year 1841; thanks to this, Long cellar lost importance.Until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), in the "KOMOTAU" (Chomutov) district, one of the 94 "Bezirkshauptmannschaften" in Bohemia.