FROM VIENNA TO OSTRAVA – FROM AUSTRIA TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA: URBAN RAIL TRANSPORT IN THE CZECH LANDS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE OSTRAVA AGGLOMERATION), 1894 – 1924

• Authors: Závodná Michaela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The following study focuses on the development of urban rail transport in the Czech Lands before 1914, specifically regarding electrification and municipalization. The second part of the study looks at the issue of nostrification of a transport company in the aftermath of World War I. Based on a case of a specific company, the study analyses its causes, course and consequences, while placing it in the historical context of the making of so-called greater cities. It examines the economic and political motives that lead to the decision to move the transportation company’s headquarters to Czechoslovakia even before being prompted to do so by the state authorities. It follows the impacts of the war on the running of the company, and the gradual permeating of members of the local authorities into the company’s board of directors. Taking into account the transformation of the Ostrava city agglomeration into a modern metropolis, it analyses the factors that culminated in the local authority of Moravská Ostrava joining the transport company as the majority shareholder, as well as the consequences for the subsequent development of the company.

Keywords

EN

CITY; URBAN RAIL TRANSPORT; NOSTRIFICATION; ECONOMIC HISTORY; MORAVSKÁ OSTRAVA; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; CZECH LANDS; ELECTRIFICATION; MUNICIPALIZATION

• Publisher: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
• Journal: Mesto a dejiny
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 18 – 39

Contributors

author

Závodná Michaela

• Centre for Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Reální 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic