Georgenberger hand festivals
The Georgenberger Handfeste is one of two documents that were issued on August 17, 1186 on the Georgenberg in Enns (today Alte Ennsburg in the Ennsegg Castle Park ).
The larger of the two documents, called the Georgenberger Handfeste , reports on an agreement between the Duke of Styria , Ottokar IV from the Traungau family , and the Duke of Austria , Leopold V from the Babenberg family . The childless and terminally ill Ottokar bequeathed his duchy to Leopold and his son Friedrich with the stipulation that Austria and Styria should remain undivided forever. The small Georgenberg document also mentions Ottokar's decision to appoint Leopold and Friedrich to his heirs, and stipulates that the rights of the ministerials and country folk laid down in writing should remain unaffected. The rights of the urban bourgeoisie were also laid down in writing for the first time; including inheritance law and various questions of jurisdiction. The Georgenberger Handfeste was therefore also referred to as the first approach to a “civil code”.
The territory of the Duchy of Styria extended far beyond today's federal state of Styria , not only into today's Slovenia ( Lower Styria ), but also to Upper Austria (the Traungau , the area around Wels and Steyr ) and Lower Austria (the county of Pitten , today's districts Wiener Neustadt and Neunkirchen ).
The inheritance occurred in 1192, since then Styria has been connected with Austria (with the exception of the years 1194 to 1196, the period from 1379 to 1457 and 1564 to 1619 as each of the Habsburg branches ruled Inner Austria and from 1254 to 1260, when they ruled after the peace of Ofen largely belonged to Hungary and from 1477 to 1485, in which Styria, but not Austria , was ruled by Matthias Corvinus ). The Georgenberger Handfeste was the first step towards the formation of the country complex Austria, as it then took place especially under the Habsburgs in the late Middle Ages.
The Georgenberger Handfeste held formal constitutional status until 1848. The original of the Georgenberger Handfeste is one of the treasures of the Styrian State Archives in Graz. The small Georgenberger deed is kept in the Vorau Abbey .
literature
- Karl Spreitzhofer: Georgenberger Handfeste. Origin and consequences of the first constitutional charter of Styria . Verlag Styria, Graz et al. 1986, ISBN 3-222-11681-4 , ( Styriaca NR 3).
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerfried Sperl : Styria. The brief history of a lush land . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna, 2005 ISBN 3-8000-7129-0 , p. 17