Abstract
One of the significant consequences of the war events in the period 1914-1918 was a problem of forced migration of civilian inhabitants, especially war refugees and evacuees from areas put in the danger of the straight war conflicts. In Austria-Hungary, there was necessary to protect or relocate people from eastern and southern border locations, particularly from Galicia, Bukowina, Istria, Austrian Littoral and Trentino to refugee camps or towns and villages in Bohemia, Moravia and Austria.
Towns and villages in district of Louny were selected as the asylum for Polish, Ruthenian, Italian and eastern Jewish refugees since autumn 1914. This article deals with this topic on the example of Louny district in the period of 1914-1918 with regard to the particular points in the social care as well as the intercultural relationships between refugees and local cummunities.