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Croatia has an embassy in Vienna, and honorary consulates in Graz, Linz, St. Pölten, and Salzburg.[1] Austria has an embassy in Zagreb, a general consulate in Rijeka, and a consulate in Split, as well as the Office of the Coordinator for Educational Cooperation, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Office for Foreign Trade, the Office of the Attaché for Agricultural and Environmental Questions, and the Office of the Police Liaison in Zagreb.[2]
There are around 120,000 Croats that live in Austria, out of which 56,785 have Croatian citizenship. The most recognizable Austrian Croats are the Burgenland Croats that live in the Austrian state of Burgenland. 297 Austrians in Croatia are officially recognized as a minority by the Croatian Constitution and therefore have their own permanent seat in the Croatian Parliament.[3]
Austro-Croatian relations have been close for most of modern history. Several heroes of Croatian history and culture were of Austrian origin and the country was one of the strongest in favor of Croatian recognition in the 1990s when Croatia declared its independence from SFR Yugoslavia.
There are more than 700 Austrian companies in Croatia.[6]
Austria is also the largest foreign investor in Croatia with more than 7 billion euros invested from 1993 to 2014.[7][6] Cooperation between Austrian and Croatian entrepreneurs is most often in the field of metal, electrical industry, wood processing, textile and footwear industry and food industry in the form of healthy food.[8]
Tourism
Croatia and Austria are founders and members of The Alps-Adriatic Working Group. Goals of this organisation are mutual communication, discussion and coordination of the points of interest of the member states, development of cooperation and exchanges in the Alpine-Adriatic region, strengthening of the Central European cultural identity and participation in the processes of the European cooperation and integration. Main areas of cooperation are sports, tourism, environmental protection, connecting cities, preservation of cultural and recreational spaces, culture and science and European integration.[9]
Austrian nobility started visiting the Croatian coast in the 1880s. Opatija became a fashionable destination for the Austrian imperial family and Austrian nobility. Soon many luxury hotels and villas were built. The first luxury hotel – Hotel "Quarnero" (1884) (today "Grand Hotel Kvarner") was built according to the plans by Viennese architect Franz Wilhelm. The hotel Kronprinzessin Stephanie was opened in 1885. Crown princess Stephanie, after whom hotel was named, and her husband Crown Prince Rudolf appeared at the opening. In 1887, Heinrich von Littrow established the "Union Yacht Club Quarnero" in Opatija which was the first sailing club on the Adriatic. In 1889, Austrian government officially declared Opatija as the first climatic seaside resort on the Adriatic.[10] Evan today Austrians are among the most frequent visitors of the Croatian coast, while Croats are frequent visitors of Austrian ski resorts.[11][12] In 2018, 1.37 million Austrian tourists visited Croatia. They accounted for 7.065 million overnight stays, behind only German and Slovenian tourists in the overall number of overnight stays of foreign visitors.[13]
Croatian (cultural) organizations in Austria
Today there is a significant number of Croatian institutions in Austria. Some of them are:[3]
Croatian Cultural Center
Burgenland Croatian Center
Scientific Institute of the Burgenland Croats
Croatian Cultural Association in Burgenland
Croatian-Burgenland Cultural Association
Croatian Press Association of Eisenstadt - publishes the weekly "Croatian newspaper" (Hrvatske novine), an annual calendar as well as books on the Burgenland-Croatian language
Croatian literature
Croatian cultural and Documentation Centre - prints textbooks for the needs of Croatian bilingual schools in Burgenland
Croatian Cultural Society - publishes the newspaper "Croatian media outlet" (Hrvatsko glasilo)
Burgenland Croats have all kind of their own newspapers, radio, news portals (like kroativ.at) and TV programs in the framework of the ORF.
Croatian Catholic Mission in Vienna is also very active religious-cultural organization.[14]
Classes in the Croatian are being held in some Austrian schools. There is a bilingual primary school in Großwarasdorf and a gymnasium in Bort. Teaching Croatian is carried out in three grammar schools in Oberpullendorf and Eisenstadt. Vienna and Burgenland have few kindergartens in which young children can learn or improve Croatian.[3]
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