Cillier circle

The Cillier Circle at the end of the 18th century, with a brief description

The Cillier Kreis or Kreis Cilli , Cilleyer Kreis , was an administrative unit of the Duchy of Styria in Inner Austria . It was called the southern part of Lower Styria .

Emergence

The Cillier district was named after the town of Cilli ( lat. Celeia, Slov. Celje), it was created as part of the administrative reform under Maria Theresa from 1748. This reform replaced the earlier division of Styria into quarters . The circle was in the area of the former Cillier Quarter. The territorial reform, to which it owes its existence, was initiated under Count Haugwitz and continued from 1760 under Count Kaunitz . At the head of the administrative and judicial authorities of the district stood a district chief who led the district office with officials. This was the first time that an administrative facility was created that was located between the administrations of the manors and the government level.

location

In the north of the Cillier district was the Marburg district , in the east the Hungarian Agram (Zagreb) county , in the south the Neustädtler district and in the west the Klagenfurt district .

From November 1, 1783, some parish districts south of the Drau were given to the Marburger Kreis (St. Lorenzen am Bachern / Lovrenc na Pohorju west of Marburg , Kötsch , Schleinitz , St. Lorenzen am Draufeld / Lovrenc na Dravskem polju, Haidin near Pettau , St . Veit and Sauritsch ). The circle remained within these limits until the reforms from 1848.

In 1788 there were 175,005 inhabitants in the Cillier district. The circle then had an area of 64¾ square miles .

The End

The administrative reform from 1848 onwards merged the district with the Marburg district. As part of the court organization in the area of this new Marburg district (in addition to the district courts), a regional court Cilli was created at the seat of the former district administration. This court was responsible for the areas of Styria mainly inhabited by Slovenes (" Wends ") in what was then the Marburg district. The choice of this location was based on the principle of equal rights for nationalities, the non-central location was accepted with reference to the railway connection to Marburg .

The area of the Cillier County from the 17th to the 19th century
1678: The Cillier district of Styria, forerunner of the Cillier district
1728: The area of the former county of Cilli was not represented as part of Lower Styria at that time
1855: The area of the Cillier district in the south of Styria, 1855, already with the indication of the new (three) districts and numbering as part of the Marburg district at that time.

literature

Joseph Baptist Schütz: General geography for thoughtful and educated readers or, description of all countries in the five parts of the world, their location, their climate, their natural products, national culture, strangest cities, most beautiful regions, most interesting works of art, ruins and monuments, then their inhabitants, their way of life , Clothing, commerce, arts, sciences, religion and constitution. Volume 12. Verlag A. Doll. Vienna 1808. p. 174 above. Schütz, general geography in the Google book search.
Johann Jacob Heinrich Czikann, Franz Gräffer: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie or alphabetical presentation of the most remarkable peculiarities of the Austrian Empire with regard to nature, life and institutions, industry and commerce, public and private institutions, education and science, literature and art, geography and Statistics, history, genealogy and biography, as well as all main objects of his civilization relations. Especially the new and the newest times. Processed in a spirit of impartiality. In commission of the F. Beck'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Vienna 1836. In six volumes. Fifth volume Seeauer - V, Steyermark II - Geography and Statistics. S. 200. Czikann, National-Encyclopedia 1836. in the Google book search.
Anton Mell: Outline of the constitutional and administrative history of Styria. Publishing house Leuschner u. Lubensky. Graz 1929-30.
Fritz Posch : Prehistory and beginnings of the district authorities in Styria. Extended lecture on the occasion of the centenary of the Styrian district authorities in the knight's hall of the Styrian country house in Graz on October 11, 1968. In: Mitteilungen des Steirischen Landesarchivs, Volume 18. Graz 1968, pp. 101–117. Printed in abbreviated form in: Johannes Gründler: Festschrift "100 Years of District Governments in Austria". Self-published by the Austrian federal states (with the exception of Vienna). 1970, pp. 61-71. ( PDF ).
Gernot Peter Obersteiner: District Office and District Chief in Styria after 1748. Establishment and activity of the new subordinate authorities of Maria Theresa. In: Historical research in Graz. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Institute for History of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Edited by Herwig Ebner, Horst Haselsteiner and others self-published by the Institute for History at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Graz 1990, pp. 195-208.
Gernot Peter Obersteiner: Die Steirischen Bezirkshauptmannschaften 1868 to 1918. (with history) In: Mitteilungen des Steiermärkisches Landesarchivs 42/43 (1993), pp. 77-98. ( PDF ).
Gernot Peter Obersteiner: The Theresian-Josephinian administrative reforms in front and inner Austria. An overview. In: Franz Quarthal, Gerhard Faix (ed.): The Habsburgs in the German southwest. New research on the history of Vorderösterreichs Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-7995-0124-X , pp. 415-424.
Werner Ogris : State and legal reforms. In: Walter Koschatzky (Ed.): Maria Theresia and their time. A depiction of the period from 1740–1780 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the empress' death . Residenz Verlag Salzburg and Vienna, 1979, ISBN 3-7017-0236-5 , pp. 56–66.

Individual evidence

↑ Decree of the Ministry of the Interior of August 23, 1849, with which the organization of the political administrative authorities in the Crown Land of Styria, approved as a result of the highest resolution of August 13, 1849, is announced. With the supplement “Most submissive lecture by the most faithful minister of the interior, Alexander Bach, on the organization of the political administrative authorities in the Crown Land of Styria”. Österreichisches Reichsgesetzblatt number 373 year 1849 (supplementary volume December 1848 – October 1849), pp. 663–666 ( on the new Marburg district, p. 666 ).
↑ Imperial ordinance of July 25, 1849, with which the organization of the courts in the Crown Land of Styria is approved. Austrian Reichsgesetzblatt number 339, year 1849 (supplement December 1848 – October 1849), p. 547 [1]

[1] Decree of the Ministry of the Interior of August 23, 1849, with which the organization of the political administrative authorities in the Crown Land of Styria, approved as a result of the highest resolution of August 13, 1849, is announced. With the supplement “Most submissive lecture by the most faithful minister of the interior, Alexander Bach, on the organization of the political administrative authorities in the Crown Land of Styria”. Österreichisches Reichsgesetzblatt number 373 year 1849 (supplementary volume December 1848 – October 1849), pp. 663–666 ( on the new Marburg district, p. 666 ).

[2] Imperial ordinance of July 25, 1849, with which the organization of the courts in the Crown Land of Styria is approved. Austrian Reichsgesetzblatt number 339, year 1849 (supplement December 1848 – October 1849), p. 547 [1]