AHR - resume by Eva Stancikova

2022 - 2024

Austro – Hungarian Roots and Common Relations

AHR team Erasmus Project 2022 - 2024

1. Introduction

2. Teams

Coordinator

Obchodní akademie, Heroldovy sady Praha, CZ www.heroldovysady.cz

Obchodná akadémia Nevädzová 3, Bratislava, SK www.oanba.edupage.org

Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych Nr 1 w Krakowie ul. Kapucyńska 2 Kraków, PL www.zse1.edu.pl

Srednja skola "Vladimir Gortan" Scuola media superiore "Vladimir Gortan" , Buje, HR www.ss-vgortan-buje.skole.hr

3. The project definition

The project activities will include mapping mutual contacts from the Austro-Hungarian period through the interwar period, normalization up to the present day in the economic (import of raw materials, goods, etc.), cultural (writers, painters, architects, composers, i.e. artists + exhibitions, concerts) and political aspects . Each school in its region learns about the mutual relations in these four periods (e.g. how a company that was founded in the Austro-Hungarian Empire uses raw materials or components from the studied regions / T. G. Masaryk as Croats deputy in the imperial council, etc.)

4. History background

Austria-Hungary was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states, with a single monarch who was titled both Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. AustriaHungary constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy (started in the year 1282): it was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after Hungary terminated the union with Austria on 31 October 1918. It is an unofficial umbrella term, very frequently used, other names were Austrian monarchy (monarchia austriaca), Danubian monarchy or Dual monarchy

Imperial Council

Imperial government

Common Ministries - foreign affairs - defence - finance

Customs territory

Common currency

State bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy

The Austro-Hungarian Compromise. Pink: «Cisleithania»; green: «Transleithania»; brown: condominium of Bosnia and herzegovina (added 1908).

Diet of Hungary

Hungarian government

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austrohungarian_coat_of_arms_1914.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AustroHungarian_Compromise_of_1867#1849%E2%80%931867_(military_dictatorship)

Austria

The Cisleithanian

Austro – Hungarian Monarchy 1867 - 1918

Hungaria

The Transleithanian

Emperor of Austria

Franz Joseph I. Karl I & IV

King of Hungary

The last foto of the heir to the throne F.F. d'Este with family, recovered by R. Bruner Dvořák November 23, 1908

„The family of Austria´s Emperor“ Xylography by Vinzenz Katzler, about 1880 ©Schloss Schönbrunn Kultur -und-Betriebsges.m.b.H./Sasha Rieger

5. Activities

5.1 Teachers meeting in Prague – october 2022

5.2 Forming teams

5.3 Historical research

5.4 Cross-sectional week in Krakow – March 2023

5.5 Reflexion of Krakow

5.6 Preparation of the stay in Buje

5.7 Cross-sectional week Bratislava – Buje – October 2023

5.8 Dissemination

5.9 Reflection – letter to ancestors, fortifications in tourism

5.10 Cross-sectional week in Prague, 29th International trade Fair of Practice

Enterprises – March 2024

6. The meetings – cross-sectional weeks

A.

Teachers Meeting Prague – November 2022

The first meeting of teachers in Prague was filled with intensive work. The teachers agreed on how they would objectively select students for the project, as well as what the students would prepare for the meeting in Krakow. They will explore history and look for significant figures and common points with other partners in the following areas: 1- Architecture; 2- People and personalities; 3 - Business and companies; 4 -Infrastructure (roads, railways,.. ); 5- Gastronomy

Teachers were informed about new modern methods of teaching at Business lyceum Prague called EVA programm. These methods can be useful in the project work.

Teachers have prepared all necessary tools for project work: common shared drive, clear program and callendar of work, web-site for information and dissemination of project progress and results.

The tasks are difficult, they require a general view outside the economic field. But our pupils accepted them with enthusiasm. For them, it is a challenge and an impulse for personal development in new areas. They must search for information in cultural and historical areas.

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B. Students Meeting Krakow – cross-sectional week –

March 2023

Preparation for the meeting :

a) Forming teams

Auditions and selection procedures were held at all schools for those students interested in working in the project

b) Historical research

the new teams started the historical research at first at school, preparing for the meeting in Krakow

Students of all 4 schools were preparing for the students meeting at home: they were divided into 5 groups and each did their own historical research:

• one group researched common historical figures,

• the second focused on transport and communications,

• the third focused on architecture,

• the fourth on gastronomy,

• the fifth researched companies founded in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy that have survived to this day.

The research was interesting and the results nice. Each school prepared 5 presentations about the main topics and extra presentation about their school.

c) Cross-sectional week in Krakow

The meeting in Krakow was really big: 43 students + 8 teachers presented their research in one hall, compared results and met new colleagues. The atmosphere was cheerful, creative and full of energy.

The students learned a lot about the partner school, which is housed in a historic Art Nouveau building from the Austro-Hungarian period. They played cognitive games about Krakow, monuments and customs. On project walks, they got to know the sights of Krakow and the historic city of Přemyšl. They created souvenirs - painted T-shirts that will remind them of this amazing project meeting.

1st stop: Kraków

- presentations at school – historical research

- National Museum

- The Princes Czartoryski Museum

- City game

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2nd stop: Przemyśl

- National Museum of Przemyśl

- Museum of History of Przemyśl

- Sightseeing in Przemyśl

The meeting was very important and successful. All the participants were very happy to meet new friends and had very nice time with them.

After the meeting in Krakow the sudents try to analyse the results from all 20 presentations from Krakow and make a nice result. We do have many common roots: - we belong among very schooled nations – all children have to visit the grammar school (from the year 1777- the Theresian reform of schools)

d) Reflexion of Krakow

- we have had the same common history in Austrian monarchy, with small differences after the year 1867 – in Dual monarchy

- Art Nouveau – the style was used in all our countries

- Railways are connecting us for many years

- We have many important people who worked and lived in Monarchy

ARCHITECTURE

GASTRONOMY

In terms of gastronomy, all 4 countries have a lot in common: the basis of our diet is potatoes and meat. We like to enjoy goulash, roast duck with cabbage and dumpling, potato pancakes or dumplings, sweet pancakes with jam. We all have quality wines and beer.

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These two politicians were very important for creating the Czechoslovak republic after the World War I.

Martin Kukučín (real name Matej Bencúr, 17 May 1860 – 21 May 1928)

was a Slovak prose writer, dramatist and publicist. He was the most notable representative of Slovak literary realism, and is considered one of the founders of modern Slovak prose.He worked as a doctor in Croatia, where he was also an active member of the cultural society Hrvatski Sastanak. In 1904, he became one of its directors.

Dušan Samo Jurkovič (23 August 1868 – 21 December 1947)

was a Slovak architect, furniture designer, artist and ethnographer. One of the best-known promoters of Slovak art in 20th century Czechoslovakia, he is remembered mostly due to his projects of numerous World War I cemeteries in Galicia and thanks to his wooden works of spa complex in Luhačovice and mountain cottage hotel Maměnka and canteen Libušín in Pustevny Thanks to his artistic work with wood, he is referred to as "the poet of timber". His architectonic style was a unique fusion of folk architecture and then-popular architectonic styles, mostly associated with Art Nouveau Jurkovič repeatedly stressed: "The work of art is rooted in the time. I also have always cautiously listened to its voice."

Osvald Polívka (24 May 1859 – 30 April 1931)

was an Austrian Empire-born architect associated with the Art Nouveau period in Prague. Polívka designed many of Prague's significant landmarks of the era, plus other work in Brno and Bratislava.

After graduating from Czech Polytechnic in Prague, his first important commission was a collaboration with Antonín Wiehl, the 1894 Prague City Savings Bank. Polívka's style evolved through his active years but he remained devoted to the collaborating with artists for aesthetic effect. For the ornate landmark Municipal House he coordinated the work of many significant Czech muralists and sculptors of the time, including his friend Alfons Mucha.

RAILWAYS

ENTERPRISES

C. Students Meeting Bratislava – Buje – cross-sectional week

October 2023

a. Preparation of the stay in Buje and Bratislava

b. Meeting in Bratislava – 3 days

Czech and Polish groups were travelling to buje with a short stay in Bratislava. They have seen the many sights of Bratislava : from the old historical Art-Nouveau parts to the modern „Glass“ Bratislava