Windischgraz district

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The district of Windischgraz ( Slovene okraj Slovenji Gradec ) was a political district in Styria . It included the areas of the judicial districts of Mahrenberg ( Radlje ob Dravi ), Schönstein ( Šoštanj ) and Windischgraz ( Slovenj [i] Gradec ) the north-western part of Lower Styria .

The area was added to Yugoslavia after the First World War under the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1919 and has been part of the Republic of Slovenia since 1991 .

history

The modern, political districts of the Habsburg Monarchy were created around 1868 in the course of the separation of the political from the judicial administration.

The district of Windischgraz was formed in 1868 from the judicial districts of Mahrenberg, Slovenian Radlje ob Dravi , Schönstein ( Šoštanj ) and Windischgraz ( Slovenj (i) Gradec ), with the district covering an area of ​​14.3 square miles with a population of 39,631 people.

In 1890 a total of 42,266 people lived in 7,020 houses in the Windischgraz district, 50.6% women and 49.4% men of the population present. In terms of denomination, the population consisted of 99.9 and Catholics, linguistically the population consisted of 35,214 Slovene speakers and 6,871 German speakers.

In 1910, 43,420 people lived in the district on an area of ​​834.27 km². Of the population present, 35,885 people named Slovene (82.6%) as their colloquial language, 7,241 named German (16.7%) as their colloquial language. In addition, 43,271 people were Catholic , 144 Protestant and 2  Israelite .

The district of Windischgraz was largely assigned to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia through the border regulations of the Treaty of Saint-Germain , which was concluded on September 10, 1919 . Only the community Soboth and parts of the local communities Oberfeising , Pernitzen and Sankt Primon ob Hohenmauthen (all part of the judicial district of Mahrenberg) remained in Austria.

On January 1, 1928, Soboth and the communities of Laaken and Rothwein formed from the other districts, as well as the section of the cadastral community Heiligendreikönig assigned to the community of Stammeregg of the former community of Oberfeising, were assigned to the judicial district of Eibiswald .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XVII. Piece, No. 44. "Law of May 19, 1868 on the establishment of political administrative authorities in the kingdoms ..."
  2. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XLI. Piece, No. 101: Ordinance of July 10, 1868
  3. ^ Kk Statistische Central-Commission (Hrsg.): Special-Orts-Repertorium of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Austrian Reichsrathe. Revised based on the results of the census of December 31, 1899. IV. Styria. Vienna 1893, p. 369
  4. ↑ kk Central Statistical Commission (Ed.): Spezialortsrepertorium von Steiermark. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1910. Vienna 1917, p. 148
  5. ↑ Federal Law Gazette 1927, Item 83, No. 324 : "Ordinance of the Federal Government of November 8, 1927 on the allocation of the parts of the Styrian parish that remained with Austria, which border the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , to the judicial districts."

literature

  • kk Statistische Central-Commission (Hrsg.): Special-Orts-Repertorium of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Austrian Reichsrathe. Revised based on the results of the census of December 31, 1899. IV Styria. Vienna 1893
  • kk Central Statistical Commission (Ed.): Spezialortsrepertorium von Steiermark. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1910. Vienna 1917