3. The population dynamics of Vienna since 1810
Questions
Description and Analysis
In the modern age, the population growth of Vienna was always determined by long-distance migration. Up until the middle of the 18th century, the Danube was the most important trade route. After the administrative reforms of Empress Maria Theresia, the majority of immigrants came from the Sudetenland. From there came entrepreneurs, businessmen and civil servants.
Answers to the Questions
- Significant increase in the population until the mid 19th century. Increase. Very strong increase in population between 1850 and 1916. A significant decrease with the start of the First World War. The population decline continued until the 1980s – with a short break in the mid 1930s.
- by 500,000
- Vienna was no longer the capital of the monarchy
- The start of the First World War
- Many people who had immigrated to Vienna went back to their homelands when the monarchy collapsed.
Presentation
Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire, grew tenfold in size between 1810 and 1910. The extraordinarily rapid population growth of Vienna was mainly due to immigration. The beginning of the First World War marked the end of immigration – many people wanted to go back to the crown lands of the Habsburg Empire that were now striving for freedom.
Term --- Crown Lands: The term Crown lands was given to sub-regions of the Austrian Empire as a unitary state between 1804 and 1867, and to the western half of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with Vienna as its capital from 1867 to 1918.