States of Austria had been a semi-autonomous part of the County of Tyrol since 1861. The city-state of Vienna was a part of Lower Austria up until 1921. The state of Burgenland is made up of the predominantly German-speaking area that the Kingdom of Hungary until 1921 had to cede to the First Austrian Republic after World War I as a result of the Treaties of Trianon and Saint-Germain-en-Laye. States of Austria Austria is a federal republic made up of nine states, known in German as Länder. Since "Land" is also the German word for "country", the term Bundesländer ("federation states") is often
Vorarlberg meals. Typical dishes from the Vorarlberg region are: "Käsespätzle" or "Käsknöpfle" (noodles of flour and eggs with cheese and onion), "Riebel" (dish of corn and wheat semolina, served spicy or sweet), "Flädlesuppe" (broth with savoury pancake stripes), "Grumpara mit Käs" (peel pastry with cheese), "Öpfelküachle" (apples baked in pancake dough, topped with sugar and cinnamon). Furthermore, "Mostbröckle" (pickled and smoked sausage), originally from Switzerland, is a very popular product. The architectural curriculum in Vorarlberg has a strong reputation all over Europe. It has made a label for a demanding architecture of a fruitful confrontation between traditional construction and modern interpretation