Powstanie i działalność krajowego składu publicznego w Krakowie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
The Origin and Activities of the Regional Public Warehouse in Cracow at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: As an internal colony and the poorest region of the Habsburg Monarchy, Galicia was looking for opportunities to escape the vicious circle of underdevelopment and to modernise. After gaining its autonomy in the 1860s, the region’s economy gradually improved. The Galician autonomous government implemented economic policy which sought to develop various sectors of the economy. In the 1880s, the Galician autonomous government took measures to establish regional public warehouses in the western and eastern parts of the region, supporting the development of trade. After a great deal of effort, in the late 1880s warehouses were created for grain and alcohol in Lviv and Cracow. Establishment costs were covered by the national budget, and the warehouses stored all foreign goods for a fee. However, the warehouse in Lviv was poorly located, and operated for only a few years before being shuttered and put up for sale in 1898. It was believed that it would have been more likely to succeed had it been built in Ternopil. The warehouse in Cracow, which stored mostly Russian grain being exported to Germany, was better located and operated until Galicia ceased to exist. The Hungarian and Eastern Galician grain stored in Cracow was also processed in flour mills in the city and its surroundings.

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