The article discusses the issue of the economic status of the town Prachtice in the context of the southern Bohemian salt business wherein Prachatice played the crucial role. The paper work on the thorough analysis of the Prachatice's staple right and right of the compulsory direction of the routes.
The paper then deals with the competition of the town Prachatice in the import of the salt to Bohemia and with outline of the directions of the roads that were leaving from Prachatice and that were the object of many conflicts of another involved towns. The thesis is delimited by the period of the Late Middle Ages until the beginning, or the first quarter of the 16th century.