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Tourist Landscapes and Regional Identities in Saxony, 1878–1938

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Caitlin E. Murdock
Caitlin E. Murdock
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The 1905 Kalender für das Erzgebirge und Vogtland described an apparently spontaneous shift in the relationship between the German state of Saxony's mountainous southern borderlands and its rapidly urbanizing lowlands. Yet from the 1870s to the 1930s, the Kalender, the Erzgebirgsverein that published it, and a host of similar Heimat (homeland) and tourist organizations pushed, prodded, and cajoled lowlanders into visiting the borderlands. In the process, they repeatedly reframed the ways in which they portrayed the landscapes they championed, rethought their reasons for enticing travelers to the southern regions, and redirected their efforts to new audiences. Saxon Heimatler and tourism promoters succeeded in defining southern Saxony's regions, and eventually Saxony as a whole, in terms of three important characteristics: the interplay of nature and industry in their landscapes; the diversity of those landscapes; and proximity to and interactions with Bohemia. So powerful were these themes that they continue to shape ideas about southern Saxony to the present.

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Central European History , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 589 - 621
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2007

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36 Rudy Koshar argues that the first Baedeker guide exclusively for the German Reich in 1906 signaled new levels of nationalization and the continuing ambiguity of Germany's political character and cultural boundaries. Koshar, German Travel Cultures, 19–20.

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38 “Zu unseren Landschaftsbildern,” Kalender für das Erzgebirge und das übrige Sachsen (1910), 64.

39 Nordböhmische Touristen-Zeitung 3, no. 6 (June 1888): 94. Oybin and the Oberlausitz belonged to Bohemia until 1635, a fact often noted in Saxon and Bohemian Heimat literature. By 1920 when Baedeker published a guide to Saxony, this Saxon-Bohemian connection was well established and it, too, included information on Bohemian border towns. Baedeker, Karl, Sachsen. Handbuch für Reisende (Leipzig: Baedeker Verlag, 1920)Google Scholar.

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57 Other German regions also grappled with the interplay of industry and nature. In contrast to Saxons who tried to reconcile the two, Rhineland conservationists called for the separation of “nature” from materialism and criticized the development of tourist landscapes. Lekan, Imagining the Nation in Nature, 30–36. Rudy Koshar shows that many historians have framed tourism as a separation from urban industrial life. He also shows that while Baedeker guides discussed industry and nature, neither was highly developed. Further, he argues that pre-1914 Baedeker guides and their readers viewed nature as something to admire rather than engage with. Koshar, German Travel Cultures, 2, 48, 56–57.

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70 Schramm, Konsum und regionale Identität, 31. Visitors spent on food and lodging, but also aided local industries by buying their products. Sieber, Siegfried, Studien zur Industriegeschichte des Erzgebirges (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1967), 11CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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72 Glückauf! 31, no. 2 (February 1911): 24. Most German communities first embraced such marketing in the 1920s. Keitz, Christina, “Grundzüge einer Sozialgeschichte des Tourismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit,” in Reisekultur in Deutschland. Von der Weimarer Republik zum Dritten Reich, ed. Brenner, Peter J. (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997), 67Google Scholar.

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74 Glückauf! 30, no. 3 (March 1910): 41.

75 HStA Dresden, Amtshauptmannschaft (AH) Schwarzenberg 127: 1. Lauter is an Erzgebirge town that was known for its basket industry.

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79 HStA Dresden, AH Schwarzenberg 127: 189, 199; AH Schwarzenberg 1942: 56.

80 German nationalists in Bohemia used similar arguments to attract tourists from Germany in the 1930s. Judson, “The Bohemian Oberammergau,” 102.

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84 HStA Dresden, Staatskanzelei ZAS 1155, Zwörnitztaler Anzeiger, Nov. 13, 1920. Restauranteurs' corruption of food distribution angered locals, too. HStA Dresden, Staatskanelei ZAS 1154, Pirnaer Volkszeitung, Dec. 16, 1919.

85 HStA Dresden, Erzgebirgsverein 13: 1, 6, 10. Similarly in 1920 the Dresden Association for Tourism tried to coordinate its efforts with groups in the Saxon Switzerland and the Erzgebirge. Stadtarchiv Dresden, 13.13 Akte 1: Fremdenverkehrsverein, 141.

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90 “Der Lusatia Verband im Jahre 1930/31,” Lusatia Jahrbuch 1931: 45.

91 Christine Keitz points out that statistics on Weimar tourism are hard to find. Keitz, “Grundzüge,” 49; Keitz, , “Die Anfänge des modernen Massentourismus in der Weimarer Republik,” Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 33 (1993): 182–184Google Scholar.

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94 HStA Dresden, Ministerium des Innern (MdI) 11753: 180, 186, 199–207; Aussenministerium 1847: 8, 9, 29.

95 Erler, “Naturschutz und Naturschutzgebiete in Sachsen,” 31. The claims to these towns date to the Schmalkaldic war of 1546–1547.

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115 HStA Dresden, Staatskanzelei ZAS 1159, Neue Leipziger Zeitung, November 18, 1935.

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119 The Nazis decried wilderness and worked to produce garden-like landscapes. Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim, “All of Germany a Garden? Changing Ideas of Wilderness in German Garden Design and Landscape Architecture,” in Nature in German History, ed. Mauch, Christof (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), 86Google Scholar.

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124 Ibid., Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten, March 24, 1935. Some Heimat organizations sent their publications to their regions' emigrants to keep their regional attachments alive. Lusatia Jahrbuch (1931): 3; SUA: Svaz Němcu v Zahraniči, Karton 17.

125 SUA: Svaz Němcu v Zahraniči, Karton 17.

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