A nyugat-magyarországi közlekedési hálózat változásai a trianoni békeszerződés következtében
Changes of the Transport Network in West Hungary Caused by the Treaty of Trianon

Summary/Abstract: Because of the peace treaties that ended the First World War, Hungary lost its western borderlands. In this area, the Austrian province of Burgenland was formed in 1922. The study presents and analyses in a complex way the impact of the new Austrian–Hungarian border on transport in the region. The new borders have taken away, cut in two or dismembered many of the long-established transport corridors (road and rail) of West Hungary. The main transport corridors of Western Transdanubia traditionally led not only to Budapest but also to Vienna, and the Central European transport corridor going from north to south, the Amber Road, passed through it. Thanks to the new state border, the latter area was shared by four states. Occasionally absurd situations arose, such as the railway lines connecting two Hungarian towns, Kőszeg and Sopron, or Kőszeg and Csepreg, being given to Austria without any connection to the Austrian railway network, or the splitting up of the Sopron–Kismarton (Eisenstadt)–Pozsony (Bratislava) railway, which was shared by three countries. Due to the terms of the Treaty of Trianon, air traffic stopped for almost a year and a half. Service halted on the Budapest–Vienna and the Budapest– Szombathely air corridors. The transport in the new Austrian province of Burgenland was also adversely affected by the fact that the major transport hubs (rail, road) remained in Hungary and initially it had no transport corridor going from north to south, and several of its railway lines were not connected to the Austrian railway network, only to the Hungarian. The conclusion of the study is that due to the treaties closing World War I agglomerations, transport routes and habits have greatly changed in the studied region.

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