Csikóhal és darázsderék. Burgenland térképezett földrajza
Seahorse and Wasp-Waist: Mapped Geography of Burgenland

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the literature of history of geographical knowledge, this paper attempts to analyze Burgenland’s reception as a cartographic entity to understand how it was depicted and represented, how the maps were explained, and how these maps served the geographical discourses on Burgenland. The analysis of ten published maps from the interwar period shows how the loss of the province’s would-be capital determined the discourse on regional dividedness, i.e. the two-facedness of Burgenland and how it was presented as a fundamental problem of the province’s political geography. This problem was offset by several maps by imagining and depicting a drawing of a greater Burgenland. Later, in the explicit geopolitical papers, the question of further territorial rearrangements was also raised, paralleled with the conceptualization of Burgenland’s geopolitical roles in the unified German space.

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