Welcome to the Austro-British Interactive Map of Carinthia
For background on this map project, see the intro below.
Each site on the map below is marked with a Union Jack icon. You can either zoom in and explore the map directly, or you can browse the list of locations on the three index pages we are developing (links down below); the locations are ordered alphabetically by address, and clicking on an address line will take you to that location on the map.
Introducing British Corners Carinthia
In October 2005, Austria celebrated the 50th anniversary of the departure of Allied troops and the restoration of its own sovereignty. To mark the occasion, Kulturvermittlung Steiermark under Max Aufischer presented British Corners Graz, a project in which enlargements of historical photographs from the period of the British occupation were installed at the location where they were originally taken, with context added, to create a British “Landkarte”, or map, of Graz, allowing people to visualise and reflect on their own recent history.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Austro-British Society Carinthia, we are pleased to continue the British Corners tradition with the launch of a project, British Corners Carinthia, to create a map with historical photos and stories to illustrate the history and diversity of the British presence in Carinthia.
This is a work in progress. We will be adding locations and pages with photos and stories for all locations we can identify. If you would like to help, if you have photos or stories you think we should add, we would love to hear from you.
The map currently focuses on the Carinthian capital, since the headquarters of British Troops in Austria was located in Klagenfurt and the city had by far the largest concentration of British military units in Austria. But the map will expand to include other districts in the state. The British Occupation Zone also included Styria and East Tyrol, as well as part of Vienna. Administrative maps prepared by BTA HQ, as in this example issued in February 1946, actually included East Tyrol under Carinthia, presumably for convenience.