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This research into the population structures of the towns of Frydek and Mistek is based on classic methods of historical demography, working with church registers, censuses and Austrian population statistics from 1869 to 1910. It concentrates on contrasting data on the populations of the two towns and on the demographic changes that occurred during the industrial revolution, which means changes in biological and cultural structures, especially with regard to the influence of the dominant industry - the textile industry - and to some extent also the metallurgy industry that developed in the surrounding area. In the article the religious, ethnic, and professional structures of both urban populations are charted to reveal some specific aspects of the Ostrava region, which were the result of its geographical location close to the border with Galicia and Prussian Silesia.
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The paper is based on the archive of the Central Directorate of the Archbishops’ Estates, where one finds position papers concerning land parcelling, leasing of processing facilities (mangles, fulling machines, bleaching works), catering and other facilities (such as Jewish restaurants). Proto-industrial textile production reigned supreme in Frýdek-Místek region by the end of the 18th century, but it was precisely because of this that a mangle in a new village was up against fierce competition. A fight broke out among the lessees of this originally ‘monopoly’ machine to counter efforts to set up a competitive facility right in the town of Místek, to beat off the competition on the Silesian side of the border, and to alleviate government pressures aiming to remove various barriers to doing business. The relationship between the town and the country is manifested on several levels: head-tohead competition, mutual dependence and necessary coexistence, because only people in the town were wealthy enough to lease emphyteutically the seigneurial operations, and there were thriving markets that attracted traders from afar.
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On the basis of Austrian statistics of population dynamics between 1881 and 1913, this paper presents historical-demographic research of tendencies and changes in the birth, marriage and death rates and natural population growth in the wider Ostrava industrial region, including the Jesenik region. The research compares the development of the individual indicators in various administrative districts and statutory cities of north-east Moravia and Austrian Silesia (excluding the Bilsko district), mapping the changes caused by the industrialization or economic retardation of certain areas and highlighting the differences in demographic developments connected with the so-called First Demographic Transition. These developments are compared with the overall situation in the Czech lands, and considerable attention is paid to a community which stood apart (not only socially) from the majority - the Jewish community.
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