Urbarijalne šume Županije virovitičke: prilog povijesti zemljišnih zajednica u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji do 1919. godine
Urbarial Forests of the Virovitica County: a Contribution to the History of Land Communities in Croatia and Slavonia until 1919

Summary/Abstract: Urbarial forests occurred as a result of the abolition of feudal relationships; former vassals were granted the right to use the land of certain wooded areas owned by the land communities from their former lords. The segregation was carried out separately for each legal case and it often caused discontent among the peasants. This paper analyzes the management of urbarial forests in certain areas of the county as well as the financial status of their employees; it also analyzes the legal regulations of the urbarial municipalities, i.e. the land communities. The market value of urbarial forests depended on their rational cultivation, on the number of members to whom the forests were assigned and on the devastation to which these forests had been exposed. From the standpoint of the forestry profession in Croatia, these forests had to be preserved as a value of national interest, and after the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, a revision of the segregation was claimed in order to bring ownership into line with the social structure of the nation, that is, with the real needs of the beneficiaries as well as of all inhabitants.

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