Die Ramschak Chronik

Author(s): Salomon Hugo Lieben / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Seit meiner Jugend habe ich überall nach der Wallersteinischen oder Ramschak-Chronik gefahndet, die mir nach den Zitaten bei Schottky „Prag, wie es war und wie es ist“, bei M. W. Jeiteles „Sikaron lejom acharon“ und bei Podiebrad „Altertümer der Prager Josefstadt“ viel Bedeutsames zur Geschichte meiner Vaterstadt, des jüdischen Prag, zu enthalten schien, wenn auch manches auf den ersten Blick Unglaubliche. Ungefähr im Jahre 1910 fand ich unter den vielen, wertvollen Archivalien, die der seither verstorbene Präsident der israel. Kultusgemeinde Dr. Arnold Rosenbacher aus dem Nachlasse David Podiebrad‘s erworben hatte und deren Durchsicht er mir mit freundlicher Bereitwilligkeit gestattete, drei Bändchen, in denen ich die Quelle sämtlicher Zitate aus der Wallersteinschen oder Ramschak-Chronik erkannte. Und merkwürdige Fügung. Ich, der ich nie die Absicht hatte, diese Handschrift zu veröffentlichen, tue dies jetzt auf Veranlassung von Prof. Steinherz, während Jeiteles, Schottky, Wehli, Podiebrad, die diese Veröffentlichung in Aussicht stellten, davon Abstand genommen haben. Ich habe meine Arbeit angordnet nach zwei Punkten, erstens die Ramschak-Chronik in der Literatur zweitens die Handschrift der Ramschak-Chronik. Im Anhange gebe ich ein vollständiges Inhaltsverzeichnis der Chronik, die ich dem Beispiele Podiebrads folgend, die die ich dem Beispiele Podiebrads folgend, die Ramschak-Chronik nenne.

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Čechoslovakischen Republik

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Rosenberg

Author(s): Viktor Kurrein / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Etwa anderthalb Wegstunden von der österreichischen Grenze liegt an den Ausläufern des Böhmerwaldes zu beiden Seiten der Moldau zu Füßen des imposanten Schlosses, das einst den Herren von der roten Rose gehörte, der Ort Rosenberg. Reste ehemaliger Stadtmauern und -Tore erinnern an vergangene Zeiten. Ehemals eine blühende Gemeinde war Rosenberg ebenso wie Kalladay und Tučap die Heimat fast sämtlicher Familien, die um die Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts die Begründer der Gemeinde Linz waren. Noch heute sind die Namen Koditschek, Pisinger, Kohn, Sternschein, Sonnenschein, Spitz, Schönbrunn, Löwy, Erle, Mautner, Schwarz, Upřimny, Veitler, Nossal in Oberösterreich und Salzburg erhalten. Der Aufenthalt von Juden in Rosenberg geht bis ins 13. Jahrhundert zurück, soll doch damals den Herren von Rosenberg das Recht Juden zu halten verliehen worden sein.

Temesvár vízerőműve: működő műszaki műemlékünk

Author(s): Árpád Jancsó / Language(s): Hungarian

The city on the Bega River can show its pride, among other things, in its many industrial monuments, witnesses of the economic boom it experienced between the end of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth. Those industrial traces are as important as the fortresses, the palaces, the castles, the churches and the monasteries of the area, because they illustrate, too the result of the work, the sacrifices and the aspirations of the communities to which they belonged.A pearl of industrial archaeology is the hydroelectric power station from Timişoara, known among the inhabitants by the name „The Turbins”. She will be, on the 3rd of May 2010, a hundred years old.The Bega River harnessing was begun in 1728, but only at the beginning of the XXth century it was fully transformed in a modern navigable canal, with a length of 120 km. and six hydro-technical knots (pound locks) (dam, lock [10].In the territory of the Timişoara/Temesvár city, Bega River was schemed for modern navigation up to the Fabric neighborhood, where the waters of the river spread in multiple canals and branches. The weirs were used to ensure the water chute for moving the wheels of watermills. Eight such watermills were in the property of the city and their lease brought a solid income to the city’s budget.But, at the end of the XIXth century the watermills’ mechanical efficiency was lower than those of the new steam-engine mills. The city administration decided to use the water energy more efficiently through the building of a hydroelectric power station. There were also in plan: the draining of the Fabric/Gyárváros neighborhood, the lowering the level of the phreatic waters, the elimination of the channels that transformed this neighborhood in Timişoara’s own Venice, the building of a new canalized river bed that would allow the access upstream of the biggest barges standardized for the navigation on the interior rivers. The building of a hydroelectric power station, through which it will be „exploited much more efficiently the energy of the Bega’s waters”, was decided by the Town Council. The large scale project of urban planning – important due to both architectural and public health issues – of eliminating the old streams and canals that spread in the Fabric neighborhood and the building of the hydroelectric power station was made by Timişoara/Temesvár’s engineerin-chief, Emil Szilárd. In the chapter dedicated to the expense-income issue, the engineer-in-chief demonstrated that, by the construction of a hydroelectric power station simultaneously with to draining of the neighborhood, this large investment of city planning will pay-off very quickly.Timişoara was a pioneer in this field, because the building of hydroelectric power stations was at its earliest stages across Europe. The first hydroelectric power stations were erected in the last decades of the XIXth century. Between 1893 and 1911, in what was then Hungary, 39 hydroelectric power stations were build for public use, out of which, the ones from Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely and Timişoara/Temesvár had an installed power of over 1000 HP.On the nowadays territory of Romania, the hydroelectric power station from Timişoara is the first a hydroelectric power station of the type dam – power station (hydroelectric dam).The hydroelectric power station, „built by the most modern knowledge”, was planned to be erected in the eastern edge of the city, the area where the Bega River, coming from the Ghiroda village enters Timişoara/Temesvár’s territory. Downstream from the hydroelectric power station, engineer-in-chief Szilárd envisaged the digging of a new canalized riverbed, 2400 m in length, and with a transversal section large enough to ensure a large flow of water. After the end of the works, the level of the Bega canal became lower with 4,40 m. The new riverbed was designed with the characteristics that would also allow the navigation in that sector. On top of the riverbed there were planned three new bridges, made in concrete steel. The one on the Park Street became famous because it was the largest bridge on concrete steel beams (Gerber system) in the world at the time [11], [12], [13], [14], [15].The cost estimate was of 1.700.000 crowns. The engineer-in-chief demonstrated, through detailed calculations, this investment will help save a 188.179 crowns worth of coal, thus it will pay-off very fast.The diggings of the new canalized riverbed, 2400 meters long and most of the power station’s construction works were finished by 1909. In the time of the building activities, the Bega waters were re-directed through the riverbed of Vâna Roşie/Vörös ér and of Suboleasa/Subolyásza so that the new riverbed, the power station and the three birdges were built on dry land. The architectural design of the power station’s building and annexes were madeby the famous city architect-in-chief, László Székely, in a historicist style, with many elements of Hungarian Seccessio influences. The majority of the power station works were made by the Hungarian building firm „Magyar Beton- és Vasbeton Építési Vállalat Wayss G.A. és Tsa.” from Budapest. The small-scale works were commissioned to some firms and entrepreneurs from Timişoara.The hydroelectric power station was equipped with three identical motor groups: each a triplex horizontal Francis turbine, producing 660 HP, with 140 rpm. At a water level difference of 5 m, each turbine needs a water flow of 12,85 m³/s, totaling 36-37 m³/s for the whole power station. The turbines and the generators have the same axis. The three power generators have a power of 400 kW each and are producing alternative biphasic electrical current with a tension of 2 × 2100 V.The turbines were bought in 1909 from the well-known Budapest firm „Ganz Danubius” and the generators from the sister-firm „Ganz-féle Villamossági R.-T.”. The Ganz group was already experienced from works on the electric power stations all over the world, of which, the largest was the hydroelectric power station from Tivoli that supplied power to the Italian capital. The calculations and planning for the power station’s installations were made by the two supplying firms.Due to unexpected expenses, the final cost of the investment was 2.132.950 crowns.Timişoara’s hydroelectric power station began its service at the 3rd of May 1910. In the first full year, it produced 4.132.000 kWh, which was 89% of electricity consumption of the Banat’s city. „We can say the hydroelectric power station is the most successful in the whole Hungary and is the proud successor of the oldest Hungarian hydroelectric power station both technically and economically. Timişoara / Temesvár remained loyal to itself when it accomplished this power station and has set an example about the way it should be organized and used such a communal station” wrote dr. Mihály Seidner in an article featured in the technicians magazine from Hungary, in which he made a presentation of the hydroelectric power station from the city on the Bega River.During the First World War, Timişoara/Temesvár felt less the lack in coal supply, due to the electricity provided by the hydroelectric power station on the Bega river.After the First World War, Timişoara/Temesvár and about two thirds of the historical Banat province were included in the territory of Romania. After the nationalization of the main inputs (11th of June 1948) in the socialist era the station became a sub-unit of different state departments. After 1990, the hydroelectric power station built with the citizens’ money returned into the possession of the city administration. It was kept in good conditions, the 100-year old installations still work today, the machines’ hall was beautifully renovated and the building that houses the command mechanisms for the weirs was restored following the original model in an exemplary manner. The hydroelectric power station – „The Turbins” from Timişoara/Temesvár – is a working technical monument, an extremely valuable sample of industrial archaeology.

Rīgas pilsētas arhitekts Johans Daniels Felsko (1813-1902)

Author(s): Daina Lāce / Language(s): Latvian

Johann Daniel Felsko (1813–1902) is the first Master Builder of Riga who received academic training and held the title of City Architect. After journeyman’s travels and studies of architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the most prominent North European centre of artistic education in that time, he returned to his native city. Felsko belongs to the first generation of Historicist architects. His four decades of creativity illustrate the appearance and development of Neo-Gothic, Neo-Renaissance and round-arch style in the biggest Baltic port city of the Russian Empire. Daina Lāce’s monograph is based on her PhD dissertation that was defended at the Latvian Academy of Art in 2010, and its publication celebrates the 200th anniversary of the architect’s birth. The volume includes extensive English and German summaries

A nemzetközi államközösség

Author(s): István Bibó / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

Историја Државне Реалне Гимназије (1836-1937) и Приватне Женске Гимназије (1907-1912) у Чачку

Author(s): Jerotije Novitović / Language(s): Serbian

De-INDUSTRIALISATION and its CONSEQUENCES. A Kosovo Story. (Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit of the EU Pillar of UNMIK European Stability Initiative)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

In pre-socialist times, the town of Peja (known in Serbian as Peć), was a lively regional centre of around 16,000 inhabitants, housing a community of merchants and craftsmen, several hotels and restaurants, and a few larger enterprises: a stream-driven flour mill, two timber mills and a small brick factory. Peja was first connected to the railway in July 1929 and electrification followed in the same year, with a small hydroelectric power-station on the White Drini River. Today, after five decades of socialist development and more than ten years of post-socialist decay, Peja’s economy is back where it started early last century. Amid the ruins of an industrial sector which has entirely collapsed, one can find economic structures strikingly similar to those of the pre-socialist 1930s: shops, tradesmen, hotels, and a handful of functioning industries: a saw mill, a bakery, a brewery and a brick factory. The transition from a pre-industrial agricultural economy to an urban manufacturing centre has failed.

Egy határrendezés visszhangja: zuglegeltetésből nemzetközi botrány. Bezálogolás Solyomtáron

Author(s): Csaba Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

I have found new records in the local archives to reconstruct the evolution of a Szekler private property to becoming an intermediate space at the end of the 19th century. This is the Sólyomtár Mountains, whose troubled history reflected the life of its Szekler inhabitants. In 1886, there was a borderline revision between Austria-Hungary and Romania to solve the former conflicts regarding the ownership of the nearby mountains. The commission decided that Sólyomtár [in Romanian: Solintaru] should belong to Romania. This decision led to a new legal and economic conflict between the neighbours. The mountain has become an intermedial space as it formerly belonged to the so-called Szekler Private Properties and not directly to the Hungarian state. The Hungarian leaders confirmed that it still should belong to the Szekler Private Properties. In the vision of the Romanian leaders, it had to belong to Romania. The clarification of this situation was becoming more important for the local leaders of Csík County for it caused an international diplomatic incident, too. They decided to pledge the cattle of Romanian farmers who refused to pay rent for the pasture. This incident finally elucidated the chaotic situation, and so the intermediate space disappeared.

Miejsca pamięci w turystyce historycznej po Górnym Śląsku

Author(s): Maciej Fic / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The text is the combination of theoretical refection and the speculations on the subject of the role of memorial sites in the area of Upper Silesia Region (fr. les lieux de mémoire, ger. Erinnerungsorte), in the perception suggested by Pierre Nora. It is an attempt to categorize the memorial sites in the Upper Silesian space (especially in the context of the region as the former borderland) and their usage within the contemporary heritage tourism. The author, taking into consieration both material and non‑material evidence of the past, introduced his own typology of this type of constructs, assigning eight different kinds, varying in character and determinants: recalled “oblivion” sites, recreated “forgotten sites,” sites of “changeable affiliation,” “post‑industrial memorial sites,” sites of “unintentional remembrance,” sites of “memory restitution,” “on the pedestal memory” sites, and memory through the literary works about the past. Each of the given groups is characterized in the article, and some specific examples which symbolize the places in the region, are shown.

Szlak Zabytków Industrialnych Województwa Śląskiego

Author(s): Zbigniew Hojka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Industry in Silesia and Lesser Poland has been developing for ages. However, during the last 200 years that area became one of the leading industrial regions in Europe. The number of industrial monuments in the Silesian Voivodeship is very large. Many of them are proudly represented or used in different ways. They fascinate people with their architectural shape, created thanks to the constructors’ sense, and please the eye with wonderful shapes. They allow one to better recognize the history of these lands. There are so many of them that it was possible to create many interesting tourist paths. On the path you can find machines and devices which are still working. The most interesting places which create Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship are: Black Trout Adit in Tarnowskie Góry, coal miners settlements in Katowice Nikiszowiec, Giszowiec, “Królowa Luiza” Adit in Zabrze, Guido Coal Mine in Zabrze, Tychy Brewery, Drill Mine of the “Sztygarka” Town Museum. On the area of the Silesian Voivodeship there are cities, which take care for industrial heritage like Zabrze or Gliwice as well as cities where industrial monuments are not properly exhibited. Some of post‑industrial buildings currently function as places connected with culture, services and trade. Industrial monuments are very unique and because of that, they are integral part of European Cultural Heritage. Since 2006, even Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship works. It was created as a path for drivers with number of 36 monuments. It is promoted as a branded tourist product, which includes the most interesting and well preserved industrial monuments connected with coal mining, steel mill, light and food industry, railway transport, telecommunication and people’s lives. In 2010 it was added to European Route of Industrial Heritage. A supplement of this path, Industriada – Industrial Monuments Path Festival, is organized since 2010.

Górnośląskie kopalnie jako obiekty turystyczne

Author(s): Adam Frużyński / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

For many years coal mines were treated only as a coal mining area. When the coal deposits were depleted or mining became unprofitable, mines were closed and all their buildings were demolished. It was not until the interwar period that the first projects of making fragments of “Concordia” mine in Zabrze and “Fryderyk” mine in Tarnowskie Góry accessible to tourists were made. Their realization was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. Initially, in the Polish People’s Republic, the problem of preservation and making mining objects available was not being taken care of. It was not until 1965 that on the site of West Field of “Zabrze” coal mine an underground route designed for tourists came into existence. In 1976 the first visitors were received by Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry. Founded in 1979, Coal Mining Museum made two mines available for tourists. In 1982 Open‑air Mining Museum “Guido” and in 1993 Historic Mine “Królowa Luiza” came into existence. Restructuring of the mining industry, conducted from the beginning of ‘90s, led many mines to being closed. It triggered the creation of many local initiatives focusing on preservation of some mines as tourist attractions – bearing witness to the development of a given place. This way mines “Saturn” in Czeladź, “Ignacy” in Rybnik, “Michał” in Siemanowice and shaft “Maciej” in Zabrze were open for tourists.

Український незалежний культурологічний журнал «Ї» — № 63/2010

Author(s): Petro Gutsal,Lubomira Boitsun,Mykola Lasarowitsch,Ivan Bobersky,Bogdan Ostapjuk,Philipp Gaida,Taras Wozniak / Language(s): Ukrainian

In order to make the thorough mendacity of Putin's rhetoric about "Ukraine as a State of Neo-Nazis" fully evident, CEEOL is offering the Ukrainian Jewish journal ”Ї“ as the strongest possible proof of a habit of "modern Ukrainian and world intellectual thought". The NGO "Ї", an independent cultural organization founded in the late 1980's in L'viv, focuses on modern Ukrainian and world intellectual thought. It offers periodic forums for discussion of issues concerning Ukraine and, among others, Europe, Russia, post-Byzantium, the Muslim Renaissance. It analyzes the current situation in order to develop future socio-political strategies. The organization also publishes "Ї", a quarterly journal dealing with European and Ukrainian issues in politics, philosophy, and culture. It also examines the relationship of Ukrainians with Russians, Poles, Austrians, and Jews and places Ukraine in a modern geopolitical sphere that can further Ukraine's identity as a modern state.

Атанас Т. Илиев за историята на Стара Загора

Author(s): Vanya Doneva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Person and work of Atanas Iliev are subject to various historical research on the development of education and textbook literature in Stara Zagora at the end of the nineteenth century. His contributions as a researcher’s past Stara Zagora and initiated the creation of a local museum remains underrated.. The purpose of this notice is to outline research interests related to the history of his native town on the basis of a series of publications “From the history of the city of Stara Zagora“, printed on the pages of the newspaper “St.- Zagorskiy glas“ (1912).

Югоносталгия в индивидуалната и колективната памет (Case Study - Битоля, Македония)

Author(s): Nadya Toshmakova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This study explores the manifestation of Yugonostalgia among people of Bitola, Macedonia. Over two decades after Yugoslavia broke up, a feeling of nostalgia towards the former nation has surfaced. In the countries that emerged out of socialist Yugoslavia, it is called “Yugonostalgia” and is a very wide spread cultural phenomenon in all age groups. Has the dramatic transition into a post-socialist country fostered Yugonostalgic feelings among these people? If not, what in perceptions of citizens their country today is better than Yugoslavia? What in the memories about Yugoslavia is better than nowadays experiences? If so, what are these people nostalgic for? What about Yugoslavia seems so much better than present-day Macedonia? Which are the real personal memories and which of them have become part of the collective myth about the past that people present like their own narratives? The study is based on fieldwork conducted in the summer of 2015 in the city of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia, and some nearby villages. Multiple ethnological and historical methods are used, including: method of oral history, participant observation, method of life story, semi-structured interviews, photo and video documentation, archive materials gathered in the museums around the city.

Биография и родословно дърво на Димитър Вълнаров

Author(s): Georgi Mandev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

A family from Sliven left a lasting mark in the history of Bulgaria and in the construction of our post-liberation army. The Valnarovi family is related to the families of Tapchilestovi, Hristo Botev's mentor in Odessa - Hristo Pavlov from Kalofer and many other famous Bulgarian families.

What is the Meaning of “Large” and “Small” in the Names of Municipal Estates in Zadar’s Mainland Communal Territory?

Author(s): Franjo Smiljanić / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the names of estates organized according to the “Small”/”Large” principle, the adjective “Small” always stands together with “Large”, as is the case with the estate of Murvica. The description of Velika (Large) Murvica (ville Muruice magne), in which Mala (Small) Murvica (villa uocata Muruiça parua)rubu is also mentioned, one can recognize a joint estate of the same name, which is in a document from1403 referred to as “Murvički diskrikt” (District of Murvica). In the documents of Zadar from the second half of the 13th century onwards, this principle is regularly applied when naming the estates, its interpretation depending on the position of adjectives “Small” and “Large”.

Łódź – miasto przemysłowe, miasto nowoczesne?

Author(s): Kamil Śmiechowski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The text is an attempt to answer the question to what extent industrial Łódź was a modern city. The author draws attention to the ambiguity of the term modernity itself, then emphasizes that the development of the city itself was the result of the modernization project of the authorities of the Congress Kingdom. He emphasizes, however, that the project was not warmly welcomed by the Polish public, and the city was perceived as alien and sinister. He tries to explain this phenomenon by emphasizing the ambivalence of the development of Łódź, in which rapid economic growth did not go hand in hand with the development of education or public services. By analyzing the testimonies of people from different social classes, he shows how differently this city was perceived and assessed depending on the place in the social hierarchy that each person occupied. Constituting a terra incognito for the educated and wealthy layers of society, it was a place of enormous emancipation and social advancement for working women. This promotion brought greater benefits than the risks associated with staying in a big city, where exploitation and other negative phenomena to which these classes were exposed were common. In the author's opinion, the ambivalence of Łódź's development was most visible in the sphere of culture, where the opinion of the elites about Łódź as a cultural desert went hand in hand with the real achievements of the city's inhabitants in the field of culturalization. An emanation of this phenomenon was the creation in the city of one of the first collections of modern art in Europe. In conclusion, the author argues that the case of industrial Łódź says a lot about modernity in Central and Eastern Europe and its asynchronous character.

Nowoczesność publiczna czy prywatna? Woda, gaz i elektryczność w międzywojennej Łodzi a stracone szanse

Author(s): Marcin Szymański / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Łódź was the largest industrial city in Europe without a water supply or sewage system. At the same time, electricity arrived there quite late, only in the early 20th century. The city gasworks were the first to be built. A clear development barrier in the construction of these devices was the lack of municipal government during the partitions, and thus the lack of the ability to obtain appropriate funds for the implementation of ambitious projects. The only option was to look for a private investor who would be willing to build and operate the infrastructure in exchange for a favorable concession. After regaining independence, the situation changed, but the local government was deprived of adequate income, so it was also forced to look for companies willing to implement urban investments. This time, unfortunately, the barrier was the lack of decision-making, especially after 1926. As a result of the short-sighted policy of the local government and the reluctance of the central authorities, Łódź lost its chance for modern urban facilities, and the infrastructure created was modest and insufficient.

Merkuriańska Łódź i antyczne ikony nowoczesności

Author(s): Przemysław Owczarek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Since the mid-19th century, numerous architectural details have appeared in industrial cities exposing the figure and attributes of Hermes - Mercury, the Greek god of trade, merchants and thieves, the protector of travelers, the messenger of the gods and psychopompus, the ruler of writing and communication, money and all measures, a prophet in the form of the Hellenic Hermes Trismegistus and the guardian of secret knowledge and the patron of Freemasonry (a wizard and a doctor with a caduceus wand). He is the only Greek and pagan god whose images and presence have so strongly marked the history of Western culture. Mercurian details can be found on the facades of factories, palaces, tenement houses and banks, wherever, through the shape of the building and its purpose, the bourgeoisie celebrated the triumph of control over the world flow of money. Hermes - Mercury became the patron of industry, an ancient icon of modernity and capitalism. City centers of 19th-century architecture are a kind of passages, passages, communication routes of historical style architecture as well as ideas and goods, they are streams through which the blood of capitalism - money - flows. This clever god, as Mercurius in alchemy corresponding to liquid mercury, is an intriguing image of modernity seen as fluid and fleeting in the thought of the great theoretician of modernism, Karl Marx. His dictum of the diagnosis of modernity: Everything that is solid melts into air - inspired researchers such as Walter Benjamin, Zygmunt Bauman, Georg Steiner and Marschal Bermann. Their thought became the starting point for a specific review of Mercurian details and architecture of Łódź, the center of which was marked not by the market square typical of pre-modern cities, but by a route-passage. The founder of industrial Łódź was the Freemason Rajmund Rembieliński.