Iron law

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With the iron law , the municipality of Mürzzuschlag in Austria was granted the special right to make iron small in the region .

The iron and steel industry has an age-old tradition in Mürzzuschlag. In the 13th century, Mürzzuschlag also seemed to be a suitable place for ironmaking for the upper classes. There was enough water and wood to operate hammer mills. These were subsequently created in large numbers; there was talk of up to 11 works.

Therefore, on February 9, 1360, the Mürzzuschlag received a letter from Duke Rudolf confirming that they would cut iron down between Leoben and Semmering alone . In a similar documentation, this right was confirmed again by Emperor Maximilian in 1507.

The so-called iron law must therefore have been pronounced by one of the duke's ancestors. Which period this concerns and who this ancestor should have been is not sufficiently documented.

Emperor Josef II dissolved this iron law with the patent from 1782.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The city's history began in 1227. Viktor Kaplan and Elfriede Jelinek were born here. Website of the city of Mürzzuschlag, accessed on July 13, 2019