English Translation

- 9 - 55 more strongly towards the end of the 18th century. The Theresia-nical administrative and tax reforms had been the prelude to a new state idea.- But the state-wise sense of the empress had passed over most of the fundamental question and looked at the practice. If it had abolished or restricted the rights of the inhabitants of the landscape, it offered to the high nobility by attracting worthwhile and interesting political tasks in the great sphere of power of the Habsburg substitute. Joseph II, however, was a great idealist, but radical and impractical. Against him, therefore, also and especially in Bohemia, opposition. The centralization measures of both rulers were not least based on the experiences that Maria Theresia had had had to make during the battles against Prussia with Denk Bohemian estates. Unlike dumxsgangx the EU E Hungary, the Bohemian had immediately made pacts with the Bavarian Kur- prince, to which four hundred estates had paid homage in Prague. They thought it would be an opportunity for them to wreak out the flock of l620, possibly to re-educate Bohemia to an electoral kingdom, where, of course, they played the first violin. Maria Theresia responded with her extensive administrative measures. Its most important result, for the Bohemian region, is the end of Bohemia as a special state-law body, accomplished by the merger of the Bohemians with the Austrian court chancellery. Bohemia was now a province, of course equipped with important autonomous rights. Josef II, now had a pronounced mistrust against the nobility at all. Ex He saw in him predominantly privileged beneficiaries of the work of others. Characteristic of his attitude, is jéne - 10 -