English Translation

CX exit of the Middle Ages took over the role of the Roman crown, and in its place constituted the political precondition for the German royal and imperial crown. Venetian and French Gessendtschaftsberichte, good eight of the Reichshofrat in Vienna, i.e. Seitgenssische acts, prove this repeatedly. The French national vev collection l792 has declared the war with Austria to the King of Bohemia and Hungary under state law. Only the proclamation of Austria to an imperial state at the beginning of the 19th century makes the title of the K8 nig of Bohemia fade. In the Czech mentality, the idea of the "historical countries", the "countries of the Wenceslas crown", remained strong enough to form a state-legal framework that has become of great importance, especially for the emerging Czech national consciousness and Czech politics in the 19th century. Even in St. Germain and in the famous memoirs of Mr. Benesch at the peace conference, the concept of "historic countries" plays a role. However, it should be noted that since 1 526 and especially since 1 620, the Bohemian countries share the fate of the German people in today's Eastern Mark and the Sudeten- gau. In the Habsburg monarchy the highest degree of political independence of Bohemia is reached. Due to the Theresian reforms around the middle of the 18th century Bohemia practically loses its special status under state law in the framework of the monarchy, although this still remained theoretically and for example in the coronation of Leopold II. For the question of the relations between Bohemia and the German Empire in the 19th century, reference should now again be made to the references of the Habsburg monarchy to the Reichsverband. This means that according to the new status of Central European relations since the Vienna Congress