History of Czechs in Vienna

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The city of Vienna, Austria is home to a long-established Czech population. During the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 1800s and early 1990s, Czechs were the largest non-German speaking population in Vienna. After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the independence of Czechoslovakia, many of the Viennese Czechs returned to their homeland. Today, Vienna is home to a small Czech population that has grown in numbers since the Czech Republic's admission to the European Union in 2004.

History[]

20th century[]

Former house of the Czech Socialists in Vienna, Margaretenplatz 7.

Around the start of the 20th century, Vienna (Czech Vídeň, Hungarian Bécs) was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague).[1] At its peak, in 1900, out of 1,674,957 inhabitants of Vienna, 102,974 people claimed Czech or Slovak as their colloquial language. However, as Umgangssprache (everyday language) was not properly defined by the Austrian authorities, there are claims that the Czech minority numbered as high as 250,000-300,000, making Vienna a city with the second largest Czech speaking population, only after Prague.[2] After World War I, many Czechs and also nationalities returned to their ancestral countries, resulting in a decline in the Viennese population. After World War II, the Soviets used force to repatriate key workers of Czech and Hungarian origins to return to their ethnic homelands to further the Soviet bloc economy.

21st century[]

As of 2017, Vienna was home to around 14,500 Czechs.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Czech and Slovak roots in Vienna". Wieninternational.at. Archived from the original on 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
  2. ^ Official census 1900
  3. ^ "Statistisches Jahrbuch Der Stadt Wien-2017" (PDF). City of Vienna. Retrieved 2020-08-27.

Further reading[]

  • Basler, Helena. Vídeňští Češi 1945-2005 : k dějinám národnostní menšiny = Die Wiener Tschechen 1945-2005 : zur Geschichte einer Volksgruppe, Wien ; Praha : České kulturněhistorické centrum, 2006-.
  • Baslerová, Helena; Kulturní klub Čechů a Slováků v Rakousku. Die Wiener Tschechen 1945-2005 : zur Geschichte einer Volksgruppe, Wien : Tschechisches kulturhistorisches Institut ; Praha : KLP - Koniasch Latin Press, 2006-.
  • Bernas, Karl. Sokol Favoriten, Wien : Museumsverein Favoriten, 2000.
  • Brousek, Karl M. Wien und seine Tschechen : Integration und Assimilation einer Minderheit im 20. Jahrhundert, München : Oldenbourg, 1980.
  • Glettler, Monika. Böhmisches Wien, Wien : Herold, 1985.
  • Glettler, Monika. Sokol und Arbeiterturnvereine (D.T.J.) der Wiener Tschechen bis 1914., München, Wien, Oldenbourg, 1970.
  • Lutz, Freddy. Böhmische Emigranten, Wien : F. Lutz, 1993.
  • Hauner, Milan. The Czechs in Vienna around 1900. Structural Analysis of a National Minority in a Metropolis, Philosophy and History, v8 n2 (1975); 264–266.
  • Martin, Otto. Das tschechische Schulwesen in Wien, (Salzburg) (Druck von R. Kiesel), 1924.
  • Valeš, Vlasta. Die wiener Tschechen, einst und jetzt : eine Einführung in Geschichte und Gegenwart der tschechischen Volksgruppe in Wien = Vídeňští češi včera a dnes : úvod do dějin a současnosti české národnostní skupiny ve Vídni, Praha : Scriptorium, 2004.
  • Wonisch, Regina. Tschechen in Wien : zwischen nationaler Selbstbehauptung und Assimilation, Wien : Löcker, 2010.

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