Salzburg Local Farming

This weekend Salzburg Geographical squad went to make a research about farms and local systems that produce natural products that will come on a local market of Salzburg. We went to 3 farms and most of them had the logos of Salzburg milk companies. We kindly asked the owners to get in to a farm and make some researches.

- This is how the common livestock farm look like. Each cow is tied to the metal fence so they cant run away or turn around. Cows are fed with the hay that is always available for them.

This is how it looks like from different perspective. The cow's tails are tied to the top so they won't be as dirty.

 We were also wondering what is the purpose of sawdust that is in there. The farmer told us that the cows are also fed with the sawdust in order to get some more nutriens.

Here is the sign on the farm that shows that the products and the milk that is produced here are coming straight to the factory of Salzburg Milch.

On the same farm you can see that they also have tractors and combines for carrying supplies/ livestock/ crops. This is the way they transport their products to the factories in order to get final product from the milk or any other products.

Behind the tractor, owners have storage where different types of trailors are stored. As this farm is more based on livestock, they have more trailors for livestock.

While we were walking and searching further, we went to another farm and saw pretty much the same, however here we saw the big storage of the hay.

This farm is a little different. You can see how they use special feed for the livestock instead of the sawdust and everything is better organanized and we could assume this one is more productive than the other.

Then we found out that this farm is working for another company, Alpen Milch, and the farm is a little bigger than the previous one, and there were little more cows as well.

This is the house of the owners that shows how do they live.

On the way back we saw something different. This farm wasn't focused on milk production and they didn't have any cows, however, they had goats and chicken, so we assumed they produce goat milk and eggs.

This is how chicken farm looked like outside, with the small house for them to lay eggs and be in warm place.

On Moosstrasse I took a photo of a local store that sells meat. The butcher store is very local and small and probably taking the meat from the area it's located.

The processes that we saw along with conditions for cows that produce milk for Salzburg region were good and natural. I, as a consumer, bought their products, as the processes of getting milk I saw were natural and owners didn't hide anything from us and were very hospitable.
                                       

                                          Thank you for your attention !

Salzburg and Austrian boundaries History

Today I did a research about the boundaries of Salzburg and Austria as a whole since 1914 untill nowadays. So, what is a definition of boundary? Boundary is something that indicates bounds or limits, in our case- geographically and politically. They can change by variety of reasons, such as supranationalism, annexations, occupations or devolution. This research will show you the history of Austrian, specifically Salzburg boundaries changes.
In 1914 Austria was a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire and had a big influence on Europe at that time. It contained many countries in it and the Empire was multinational and multilingiustic. Here you can see the map of the Empire of 1914

As you can see, Austria was divided by many regions and Salzburg was one of them.

Soon, in 1918, the Empire broke apart and Austria became an Independent country with some claims on German land. It was a republic of Austria. On the picture below you can see German-Austrian claims of 1918. Red highlighted area shows present day Austria.

As you can see on the map, Salzburg boundaries remained the same and even grabbed little of Bavarian teritorry. However, the Austro-Germany union after WWI wasn't official, so it was just more favoured by people and governmant, as Peace Of Prague Treaties forbade it. So Salzburg remained to be a part of Austria.


In 1938 Germans, through some forced agreements invaded into Austria, and made it a part of the Reich, many politicians in Austria didn't agree with it, but through German strategies, by March 13 Austria was an annexed part of Reich.

As you can see, during Anscluss, Germany annexed the whole Austria and now, Salzburg was under controll of Dictatorship and was a Federal State of Austria in the German Reich. As a majority of population liked the Nazi regime, they were supporting Germany and commiting crimes with them.

After Third Reich fell, the powers that were opposing them took controll over it, including Austria. Austria was divided among the 4 countries

Salzburg region was claimed by U.S.The Second Republic of Austria became a stable democracy. The regions that were claimed by U.S were developing and U.S liked the Tirol culture, so they advertised it. They also created radiostations for education and entertainment which actual goal was to controll the Soviet Unioin Part of Austria.

The two major parties strove towards ending allied occupation and restoring a fully independent Austria. The Austrian State Treaty was signed on 15 May 1955. Upon the termination of allied occupation, Austria was proclaimed as a neutral counrty, and "everlasting" neutrality was incorporated into the Constitution on 26 October 1955 ( Atlas of Austria )
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During the permanent neutrality time, Austria got it's independence and claimed itself as a democratic country again.

Today, Austria is a Federal republic, and, as a citizen of the capital of Federal State of Salzburg, can assume that throghout 100 years, Salzburg and it's land was a part of 2 Empires and was claimed as a land of 4 different countries.