CITIZENRY, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND BORDELLOS IN ZAGREB ON THE TURN OF THE 19TH TO 20TH CENTURY: REGULATIONISM AND PUBLIC MORAL

Industrijalizacijom, urbanizacijom te modernizacijom prostitucija postaje sve masovnija pojava u gradovima. Zbog toga je vlasti nastoje na određeni način kontrolirati da bi zaštitili javni moral i spriječili širenje spolnih bolesti. Karakterističan je oblik pravne regulacije prostitucije u 19. stoljeću bila reglementacija, što je značilo da prostituciju nadzire mjesno redarstvo (policija), a pravno se uređuje zakonima i pravilnicima. Ovakav sustav postojao je i u Zagrebu koji je tada bio u sklopu Austro-Ugarske Monarhije. Na izmaku 19. stoljeća u Zagrebu izbija zanimljiv sukob građana, Gradskog poglavarstva i vlasnika javnih kuća. Gradsko poglavarstvo donosi Bludilišni pravilnik (1899.) te odlučuje sve javne kuće u gradu smjestiti na jednu lokaciju zbog učinkovitijeg nadzora. Međutim, to će dovesti do prosvjeda građana okolnih ulica. Iz tog događaja mogu se iščitati mnogi aspekti odnosa između građanstva i gradskih vlasti prema javnim kućama te samo djelovanje javnih kuća. Iako se reglementiranim sustavom nastojalo nadzirati prostituciju, problemi poput trgovine ljudima, tajne prostitucije, spolnih bolesti, teškog položaja prostitutki, nisu nestali. Rad se temelji na arhivskom gradivu Državnog arhiva iz Zagreba, Narodnim novinama te dostupnoj literaturi.Prostitution is becoming a mass phenomenon in cities as a result of industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation. That is why the authorities are trying to control it in certain ways in order to protect public moral and prevent expansion of sexually transmitted diseases. Regulationism was a characteristic form of judicial regulation of prostitution in the 19th century. It implied that prostitution was controlled by local peelers (police), and regulated by laws and regulations. A system like this also existed in Zagreb which was a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. A rather interesting conflict occurred among the citizens, municipality and the owners of bordellos on the verge of the 19th century. Municipality passed the so-called Brothel Rules (1899) and decides to locate all the bordellos in the city in one location to have more efficient control over them. However, this led to civic protests living in the streets nearby. That event depicts many aspects of the relationship between the citizenry and municipality towards bordellos and their activities. Although the aim of this system was to control prostitution, many other issues did not disappear, such as human trafficking, secret prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases, and bad situation of the prostitutes. This thesis is based on the archival sources stored in the State Archives of City of Zagreb, The Official Gazette, and available literature