ABSTRACT
This book has aimed to prove that the geographical discovery and invention of Burgenland was very literally an existing endeavor in the interwar period. Many people, not only geographers, representing diverse institutions and schools worked on this “project,” many pondered on the geographical configuration of Burgenland both in the physical and intellectual sense. Various motives, some even personal, have played a part in this, which have been identified through the investigation of the careers of the geographical thinkers (I repeat, not only geographers were involved) who, because of their work, were purported to be the main actors. But in many cases, it was only the written sources that could be used to reveal the shaping of how the individual authors thought.
