this are to be sought in the unstable economic situations (decline of the Trenta iron-works, the dependence on the Raibl mine, lack of development chances of agriculture and cattle rearing). Special consideration is then given to the traffic situation and history of this territory, more specifically on the basis of two projects for the improvement of the Isonzo road in the 16th and 18th centuries.
HELMUT ALEXANDER, "ON THE REGIONAL ORIGIN OF THE PRIESTHOOD RECRUITS OF THE DIOCESE OF BRIXEN IN THE 19TH CENTURY"
In 1803 the imperial deputation’s main decision (Reichsdeputationshauptschluss) put an end to the mixed clerical-secular character of the church in the Tyrol, especially to that of the bishoprics of Brixen and Trent. Secularization and industrialization broke up structures, in the course of which the clergy attempted to maintain their traditional position in society and state and even to extend it. Thereby the pastoral clergy, the “simple” country priests, played an important role by exercising a decisive infuence on the political awareness of the population, thus shaping protractedly their attitude to the state and their authorities, to progress and modernity. Where, however, did those clergymen come from? In what regions did they originate? And were there differences in the recruitment of Tyrolean and Vorarlberg deaneries? This is what the present contribution attempts to answer.
THOMAS HELLMUTH, '"PUBLIC OPINION IS WITH US AN AGE-OLD HAG ...'IDEOLOGICAL TRANSFER IN THE 19TH CENTURY AS EXAMPLED BY THE ALPINE REGION"
The present article examines the transmission and reception of modern ideologies within local resp. regional areas. Thereby there are revealed two interesting aspects of mobility: 1. Modern and traditional communication structures, in the present case the printing media and journeyman wanderings, supplemented each other. Journeymen functioned as bearers of politi-
