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Město a jeho vesnice : růst Brna v 19. a 20. století
| Title in English | The town and its villages : the growth of Brno in the 19th and 20th centuries |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | When a number of nearby cadastral municipalities joined the city of Brno politically and administratively in 1919, the villages with hundreds of years of peasant traditions and their own folk culture became a part of the new, so-called Greater Brno. The municipalities which, together with the more remote villages surrounding the then provincial capital in a wide ring, formed a unique ethnographic region, for which the name of Brněnsko (Brno region) had already been established at the end of the 19th century. The municipalities which constituted the agricultural hinterland of the city dating as far back as the Middle Ages. Most of the villages swallowed up by Greater Brno in 1919, as well as some of Brno suburbs incorporated into the city as early as in 1850 were of a distinctly agricultural character up to the mid-19th century, the rules of which had been stipulated in the 13th century, when emphyteusis had been adopted in the villages in the whole area. As new municipalities were founded, the settling of the area was completed also by the German population, which was an important component of the population of some municipalities in the Brno region and of Brno itself from then on. In many municipalities this wave of colonization had been assimilated by the environment of the majority population, in some it had strengthened after the Thirty Years’ War, strongly determining the ethnic character up to the mid-1940s. In the Brno region it was, therefore, possible to speak about a German language island with the centre in the town of Modřice, if we leave Brno aside. The chapter describes the processes of interaction between the town and the surrounding villages, the gradual proliferation of the town in the surrounding villages and the causes that led to the creation of so-called Great Brno in 1919. |