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© 2020, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847110606 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737010603 was inaugurated in 1917 on the third anniversary of the assassination. The memorial was composed of two columns 12meters high united by a plaque where theportraits ofbothvictimswere engraved; anicheprovided space for candlesandflowers.Thepassers-bywereinvitedtostopforaprayer.60Sothelast elementofHabsburgcollectivememorywasbuiltasthemonarchywasalreadyat war. Francis Joseph had died in 1916; themodel ofmultinational empirewas contested inmanyof its territories.The lastattemptatcreatingdynastic loyalty inmulticultural Sarajevohadbeenruinedby the shotsof28 June1914. Conclusion Inmanycities inhabitantswerenomorewilling to share theurban spacewith fellow citizens they considered ‘others’ in termsof language, culture, and reli- gion. Sometimes even the dynastic events causedproblemsbecause theywere interpretedbylocalprotagonistsinanationalwaythusalienatingonepartofthe populace. Provinces were being redefined following national lines such as in Moravia andBucovina: this had consequences in the citieswhere people now tendedtoseparate.Mostcelebrationsthatwerestill transnationalwerereligious ceremonies to some extent, and dynastic festivities. The city turned into a contestedspacewherepeoplewhofeltexcludedpretendedtobevisiblewhilethe leadinggroupbuiltanarrativeofbesiegedfortress.Infrontof thatthediscourse conveyedby the statewas thatbothmodelswerepossible: dynasticpatriotism was not incompatible with national affirmation; indeed this is what city pa- triotismwas about. Identification with both levels was the rule and not the exception for regardlessof thegrouptheybelonged too,peopleprofessed their loyalty to themonarchy. The spontaneous demonstrations erupting inmany townsat thenewsof theSarajevoassassinationwereaproofof this attachment andthiswas to remainsountil theendof thecomingwar. 60 HolmSundhaussen,Sarajevo.GeschichteeinerStadt,Wien2013,p. 246.Themonumentwas destroyedattheendofthewarandtheplaqueputinthedepositofthelocalartgallery.There areprojectsnowadays torebuild thememorial. CatherineHorel294