Temeswar: eine multi- und interkulturelle Stadt.

The paper analyzes the phenomenon of multiculturalism and of religious diversity in Timişoara, highlighting the reasons why such phenomena are particularly relevant in the case of this city: the presence here of several ethnic groups, from the Middle Ages until the present day; the absence of a nobility and of privileged categories at the time of the Habsburg takeover; the success of Joseph II's reforms; the settlement of colonists in the 18th and the 19th centuries; the high literacy rate, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]