Határváros egy vitatott hovatartozású térségben. Történeti viták Sopron múltjáról a két világháború között
Border City in a Contested Territory: Historical Controversies about Sopron (Ödenburg) between the Two World Wars

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses how historians took part in (de-)stabilizing national claims on border city Sopron (Ödenburg, Hungary) after the first world war, when scholars experienced enormous political and social changes. The problem of Sopron was an especially difficult case, because after the war this border city was promised to Austria – however, as a result of a referendum (December 1921), the majority of the local population voted for Hungary instead. The Austrian historical writing contested the referendum and argued that the city has an essentially German ethnic character. Hungarian historians focused on the political-historical development in order to legitimise the referendum. The study focuses on Sopron and this topic is part of the author’s current research program which aims to give an overview about the Burgenland-debate of historians between 1918 and 1945.

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