„Přidává se jařmo k jařmu“
„One yoke is laid upon another”:

the 1620s and the inhabitants of Brno

Summary/Abstract: This study describes the situation in the leading Moravian royal city of Brno in the 1620s.Mostly evangelical Brno, where at the beginning of May 1619 there was a political coupin favour of the annexation of Moravia to the uprising of the Bohemian estates, facedfar-reaching sanctions after the Battle of White Mountain. In addition to feeding theCatholic soldiers who occupied the city, the locals had to deal with severe political andeconomic sanctions. These were not only directed against the townspeople engaged ina defeated denominational political camp or resisting re-Catholicization pressure, butalso had a negative affect on the everyday life of all people belonging to the city community.At the same time, even in the 1620s, Brno was beginning to be transformed into animportant support for the power structures of the ruling Habsburg dynasty. This processwas later completed by its victory over Olomouc in the competition for the status ofprovincial capital (1641/1642); Brno’s prestige was then increased thanks to its successfuldefence against the Swedes (1645). However, the awareness of deep humiliation and severehardships entered into the collective memory of the citizens of Brno so strongly that,even after several decades, it determined the character of local memories of the immediatepost-White Mountain period.

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