• 1. What was hidden under the Museum
• 2. Before Zagreb
• 3. Finds at the Site of Discovery
• 4. First Recorded Use of the Name of Zagreb
• 5. The Royal Free Town on Gradec
• 6. Conflict, Punishment, Prejudice
• 7. Medvedgrad
• 8. The Ottoman Threat
• 9. The Emblems of the City
• 10. Laška Ves and Nova Ves
• 11. Kaptol
• 12. The Building of the Cathedral
• 13. The Main Portal of the Cathedral
• 14. The Interior of the Cathedral
• 15. The Restoration of the Cathedral by Bollé
• 16. The Parish and the Parish Church of St. Mark at Gradec
• 17. The Baroque Altars of St. Mark’s
• 18. The Guilds of Gradec and Kaptol
• 19. Master Craftsmen of Gradec and Kaptol
• 20. The New System of Municipal Government
• 21. Religious Orders Encourage Piety and Education
• 22. The Poor Clares of Zagreb
• 23. Veneration for the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 24. Magnates at Gradec
• 25. Parks and Walks
• 26. Life in the Lower Town
• 27. The Time of the Croatian National Revival
• 28. Ban Josip Jelačić
• 29. From the Homes of Zagreb People during the Biedermeier Period
• 30. Civic Societies and Clubs
• 31. The Foundations of the Modern City
• 32. Ilica Becomes the Main Commercial Street
• 33. From the Photographic Studio
• 34. The Lower Town
• 35. Theatre Life
• 36. Public Utilities
• 37. Life in Associations
• 38. Sensations from the Beginning of the 20th Century
• 39. Echoes from the Battlefield
• 40. House and Life
• 41. The Second World War
• 42. In Socialist Reality
• 43. The Zagreb School of Animated Film
• 44. Zagreb in Independent Croatia
• 46. The Study of Ivan pl. Zajc
• 45. Echoes of Events in Zagreb
• 47. August Šenoa and Zagreb
• 48. Tilla Durieux and her Art Collection
• 49. The Collection of Mechanical Musical Automata of Ivan Gerersdorfer
• 50. Dr Ante Rodin''s Collection of Old Packaging

Permanent Display 31. The Foundations of the Modern City

The constitution imposed by Francis Joseph I created the foundation for the transformation and modernization of the Monarchy. This process included the remodelling of the Zagreb municipal government. After consultations with an organization commission (composed of the Gradec judge Janko Kamauff, Tomislav Cuculić and Augustin Dutković) had been held, the Imperial Patent of September 7, 1850 set up the Royal City of Zagreb (with 1,419 houses and 15,385 inhabitants) by uniting the free and royal city of Gradec, Kaptol, Nova Ves and Vlaška. The city was run by a commune council with the mayor at its head. The executive arm of the commune was called the magistrat. The commune council, through public competitions, selected and appointed officials, ran city affairs, drew up the budget, supervised the magistrat, promulgated laws, collected taxes, issued certificates of citizenship and ran military affairs. The citizens, on the basis of a census, elected the commune council, and took part in the work of the municipal government. Overall supervision of the work of the city authorities was vested in the Parliament and the Ban’s government. The city councillors (30 of them) were selected during one week, from May 12 to May 19, 1851. Janko Kamauff was elected mayor.

The Imperial Patent, bringing the city government up to date, particularly with the separation of the administration and the legislature, laid the foundation for the creation of modern Zagreb.

The population of Zagreb was mainly Roman Catholic (in 1857 Catholics accounted for 92.29% of the inhabitants), and the new organization of the capital was accompanied by an ecclesiastical reorganization. In 1852, with the consent of the Court of Vienna, the Pope raised the church in Zagreb to the honours of an Archbishopric independent of the Archbishopric of Ostrogon, and Archbishop Juraj Haulik was appointed Cardinal (1853).

Ivan Ružić