General-Keyes-Straße

In the Salzburg district of Liefering, General-Keyes-Straße remembers General Geoffrey Keyes, the High Commissioner and Supreme Commander of the American troops, and thus the liberation of Austria and especially Salzburg in May 1945. The street runs along the Glanbach and the settlement also named after the general, whose residential buildings were constructed between 1950 and 1951. After the end of World War II, indeed, numerous buildings had been destroyed due to air attacks in the last months of the war, at the same time the US military seized entire buildings, apartments and hotels. Due to a dispute between the liberators and the city administration, the US authority decided to build housing for the US units and their dependents. After the withdrawal of the US troops in 1955, the site was handed over to the Republic of Austria, which allocated 212 apartments to Salzburg citizens and 60 housing units to the Austrian Armed Forces.