Object's details: The ‘Kindred Circle’ of Village Mayors in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Example of Cieszyn Silesia, 1864–1918

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Title:
The ‘Kindred Circle’ of Village Mayors in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Example of Cieszyn Silesia, 1864–1918
Creator:
Morys-Twarowski, Michael
Description:
In Cieszyn Silesia (the eastern part of the crownland of Austrian Silesia) from the time local government was introduced in 1864 until 1918 it is possible to identify 1332 village mayors (German: Gemeindevorsteher; Polish: wójt; Czech: starosta). Of these, at least 1006 (almost 76 per cent) had another village mayor in Cieszyn Silesia in their ‘kindred circle’, which includes second-degree relatives according to canonical computation, as well as witnesses at weddings and baptisms of their closest family (children, parents, siblings). The uninterrupted lineage of these types of relationships connected at least 875 village mayors, or 66 per cent of all those known. Thus the partial democratisation at the level of local self-government led to a kind of oligarchy, with the position of the village head being assumed by wealthy peasant families who all had connections to one another. Outside of the ‘kindred circle’, there were the factory owners and officials of archdukes and counts, who took the position of village mayor in industrialised areas, as well as a few Jewish village mayors and probably the majority of village mayors from the mountain villages. The question examined here is whether the situation looked similar in other parts of the Habsburg monarchy, or whether Cieszyn Silesia stood out in this respect. This question remains unanswered due to the lack of analogous studies on village mayors.
Object availability:
free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Acta Poloniae Historica
Date:
2020.08.19
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Acta Poloniae Historica; Vol. 121 (2020); 27-41;
Acta Poloniae Historica; Tom 121 (2020); 27-41;
2450-8462;
0001-6829
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Instytut Historii PAN
Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/APH/article/view/APH.2020.121.02/26351
Subject:
Cieszyn Silesia;
genealogical consciousness;
village mayors;
self-government;
kindred
Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/APH/article/view/APH.2020.121.02
Data provider:
Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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