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Building the Frontier of the Habsburg Empire: Viennese Authorities and the Architecture of Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier Towns, 1780–1881

This paper focuses on the architecture of the Military Border, an administrative unit within the Habsburg Monarchy formed in the 16th century to consolidate the border with the Ottoman Empire. The architectural and urban planning designs analysed in the text belong to the period from 1780, the beginning of Emperor Joseph II’s reign, to the abolishment of the Border in 1881. The paper opens with an overview of basic characteristics of urban settlements in the Border and continues to examine influences of modernisation processes and gradual demilitarization on the architecture, the organization of the Building Administration and its impact on the changes in architectural styles. In order to modernize remote parts of the country the Viennese authorities launched in these rural and poor areas the construction of numerous new public and church buildings, thus transforming the built environment according to Central European models, adjusted to local circumstances.

Croatia, Military Frontier, Architecture, 19th Century, Austria-Hungary

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