There is (not) enough for everyone. | Book presentation

There is (not) enough for everyone. | Rich and Poor in Vorarlberg 1815-2020.
Lecture with book presentation by Dr. Wolfgang Weber

Since 2020, the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library in Salzburg has been publishing a nine-volume series on the history of poverty and wealth in the Austrian federal states from pre-industrial times to the present. Based on the first poverty report from 2013, the study on Vorarlberg presents anthropometric and cliometric data on wealth in the region over the past 200 years and makes this comprehensible through examples of regional life courses.

The investigation traces the historical processes that enabled the state of Vorarlberg to develop from a poor, agriculturally dominated region to the second most industrialized and very wealthy federal state in the far west of the Republic, after Vienna. Despite remarkable social and economic policy achievements, poverty still exists.

The lecture by the Rheticus Society is held in cooperation with the Palais Liechtenstein, whose annual focus in 2026 is "Spectrum of Freedom."
Registration: by no later than November 24, 2026
feldkirch.at/palais-registration
Admission: free