Judenburger Kreis

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The Judenburger Kreis at the end of the 18th century, with a brief description

The Judenburger Kreis was an administrative unit of the Duchy of Styria in Inner Austria . It was also referred to as the western part of Upper Styria.

history

The Judenburger Kreis emerged from the quarter around Judenburg as part of the administrative reform under Maria Theresa from 1748. This reform, which replaced the earlier division of Styria into quarters, was initiated under Count Haugwitz and continued from 1760 under Count Kaunitz . Since the end of the 15th century, Styria had five quarters: Judenburg, Enns and Mürz valleys (Brucker Viertel), Vorau (later Hartberg , with Graz), the quarter between Mur and Drau and the Cilli quarter south of the Drau. With the district division and their offices, an administrative institution was created for the first time, which lay between the administrations of the manors and the government level. At its head was a district chief who ran the district office with officials.

Due to the administrative reform from 1848, the district was added to the Bruck district .

location

The Judenburger Kreis was in the north-west of Styria and included the Murtal and the areas north of it up to the Ennstal and the Styrian Salzkammergut near Bad Aussee . In the west, the district reached to the Lungau before Tamsweg and Ramingstein , in its east was the area of Admont and Johnsbach in the Gesäuse and the Paltental . In the Judenburger Kreis were the lower Tauern, with the exception of the Radstädter Tauern . The mountain crossing at Hohentauern , the Glattjoch and the Sölkpass established the connections between the Enns and Murtal valleys. Cities in the Judenburg district were besides Judenburg Murau , Oberwölz , Knittelfeld and Rottenmann . The parish districts of St. Michael and St. Stefan ob Leoben no longer belonged to the district, they had been moved from the former Judenburg district to the Bruck district. A dispute about Kraubath's affiliation was also decided in favor of the Brucker Kreis. The seat of the district was Judenburg .

In the west, the district bordered on the then independent Archdiocese of Salzburg , in the north on the Archduchy of Ob der Enns , in the east on the Brucker Kreis and (initially, until 1783) the Marburger Kreis , then the Grazer Kreis . In the south was the Klagenfurt district of Carinthia. This expansion was maintained until the district was dissolved in the course of the administrative reform from 1848.

In 1788 there were 95,773 inhabitants in the Judenburg district.

  • The area of ​​the Judenburger Kreis from the 17th to the 19th century

  • The Judenburg quarter of Styria 1678, forerunner of the district

  • The Judenburger Kreis around 1760

  • The Judenburger Kreis in northwestern Styria, 1855

literature

Contemporary:

  • Joseph Marx von Liechtenstern: General overview of the Duchy of Styria. Self-published, Vienna 1799, various pp. Digitized, Google, full view
  • Franz Carl Weidmann : The Judenburger district in the Duchy of Steyermark. 2nd volume of Das pittoreske Oesterreich. Vienna, Verlag HF Müller, 1840.
  • Georg Göth : Judenburger Kreis. Volume 3 of The Duchy of Styria, presented geographically, statistically and topographically. Verlag JG Heubner, Graz 1843 ( digitized, Google, full view ).
  • Josef Andreas Janisch: Topographical-statistical lexicon of Styria with historical notes and annotations. Leykam-Josefsthal, Graz 1878–85, various Ss. Reprint: Verlag für Collectors, Graz 1978–79.

Modern:

  • 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: The Styrian district authorities 1868 to 1918. (with history). In: Mitteilungen des Steiermärkisches Landesarchivs 42/43 (1993), pp. 77–98 ( PDF , steiermark.at).
  • 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 Upper Austria. 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.
  • 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 , steiermark.at).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Posch, Bezirkshauptmannschaften, p. 103.
  2. ^ Walter Brunner: Maps of the Brucker and Judenburger district . In: Steiermark Edition, part of Grenzmark-Herzogtum-Bundesland, STE 01016. Archive publishing house. Vienna 1991 ff.