Klagenfurt Postcards

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Title

Klagenfurt Postcards

Subject

Klagenfurt, Austria, 1900s

Description

Postcards circa 1910 and 1932 showing Klagenfurt's Neuer Platz (city hall). Before the annexation of Austria, the Klagenfurt Neuer Platz was known as an example of the German Renaissance era. Two famous monuments, the Dragon (Lindwurm) (created to tell the mythical story of the 13th Century floods in Klagenfurt) and Maria Theresa (created by the artist Franz Xaver Pönninger, head of the Imperial and Royal Art Foundry in Vienna), still stand today.

However, after the Anschluss in 1938, the town's square became a local headquarters for the Nazi Regime, decorated with swastikas. It was renamed the Adolf Hitler Platz in 1938, which remained unchanged until 1945.

Creator

From the collection of Doris Schneider

Source

Temple Sinai's Holocaust Remembrance Center

Files

Klagenfurt Neuer Platz mit Rathaus.jpeg
Klagenfurt Platz 1932.jpeg

Citation

From the collection of Doris Schneider , “Klagenfurt Postcards ,” Drew University Library Special Collections, accessed November 8, 2024, http://omeka.drew.edu/items/show/1384.