Opis slavonskih i sremskih šuma u delima Fridriha Vilhelma fon Taubea i Franca Štefana Engela (Opis Kraljevstva Slavonije i Srema)
The Description of Forests in Slavonia and Syrmia in the Works of Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube and Franz Stefan Engel (Description of the Kingdom of Slavonia and Syrmia)

Author(s): Vladan Gavrilović
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Environmental Geography, 18th Century
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: forests of the Kingdom of Slavonia and Syrmia; Habsburg Monarchy; 18th century; Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube; Franz Stefan Engel;
Summary/Abstract: From the earliest times forests represented great wealth in the territory of Croatia, Slavonia and Syrmia. In the modern era, during the Habsburg Monarchy and its administration, forests were a public good, i.e. in state ownership, to a large degree owned by the Court Chamber, the County/Županija or the Military Frontier. With a series of statutes, concerning land and landed property, mainly in the mid-18th century, the Habsburg Monarchy organized this area which consisted, among other things, of the forests mentioned in some of the articles. The forests of these areas (Slavonia and Syrmia) were also described by the Austrian subjects Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube and Franz Stefan Engel, who, as well as giving interesting descriptions of forest properties also focused their observations on the organization and management of forests, on regulations concerning logging bans and on general behaviour in forests. The descriptions of these two authors in their works that were both entitled Opis Kraljevine Slavonije i Vojvodstva Srema constitute very good historical and geographical sources for the understanding of the situation in the territory of Slavonia and Syrmia in the second half of the 18th century.

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