List of districts and statutory cities in Austria

District border to the Voitsberg district

District border board at Loferer Straße B 178 in Tyrol

Boundary stone between the Baden district and the Mödling district on the L2099

The list contains all political districts and statutory cities of Austria with details of the respective federal state of Austria .

In Vorarlberg and Lower Austria the political districts are called administrative districts . There are no legally stipulated “district capitals”, but only places where the headquarters of the district administration are located. In Burgenland these are called “district suburbs”. The general state administration in the political districts (administrative districts) is the responsibility of the district authorities. There is no elected body at its head, but a professionally appointed body with the district captain .

structure

Since January 1st, 2017:

• 15 statutory cities ; these have an extended city ​​law (statute). The mayor , supported by the magistrate , takes on the tasks of the district administration, i.e. no district administration is responsible for these cities.
• 79 political districts with district authorities ; its highest body is the district captain .
• 1 Political Expositur ; it is a branch of the Liezen district administration within the district.

The subdivision into districts is followed by the subdivision into municipalities as the lowest level of the political administrative division . Below the commune level there is an organizational breakdown according to localities , the land register according to cadastral communities , the statistical according to census districts and districts , and in the cities also an internal breakdown according to districts, electoral districts and other things.

Most of the political districts are - not always congruent - also divided into judicial districts. There are (including the district of the District Court for Commercial Matters Vienna) 116 judicial districts (as of January 1, 2018) with their own district courts . However, the jurisdiction of the court districts does not have to follow the administrative structure of the districts.

The federal capital Vienna is both a federal state and a political district in the form of a statutory city and therefore also a municipality. (For decades after 1918, Vienna referred to itself as the municipality of Vienna .) Vienna is divided into 23  municipal districts. In terms of their design, however, these cannot be compared with political districts. They are headed by elected district heads, but they have only a few competencies .

The districts and statutory cities do not correspond to any level of the NUTS structure of the EU ( Eurostat ), NUTS-3: AT consists of groups of political / judicial districts . The level LAU-1 ( Local administrative units , formerly NUTS-4) is not occupied in Austria, LAU-2: AT are the municipalities.

New regulations 2012 to 2017

In Styria , the districts were reorganized and the district boundaries were adjusted from 2012 onwards. This happened as a preliminary stage or in the course of the Styrian municipal structural reform .

In September 2015 it became known that the Lower Austrian district of Vienna-Umgebung would be dissolved. The 21 municipalities became part of the surrounding districts on January 1, 2017.

See also : District reforms in Austria

Graphic overview

The 94 Austrian districts with license plates in
italics: 9 provincial capitals red / white: 15 statutory cities blue : 1 branch


list

Number = Number of municipalities, as of: January 1, 2020 (if only one municipality → this is a statutory city)

BKZ (1)	District or city ​​with its own statute (*) (seat of the district administration)	state	Vehicle registration number	Area in  km² Territorial status: January 1 , 2020	Territorial population : January 1 , 2020	Population density ( EW / km)	Number	Region Name (R)
305	Amstetten	Lower Austria	AT THE	1186	116,520	98	33
306	to bathe	Lower Austria	BN	754	146.751	195	30th
801	Bludenz	Vorarlberg	BZ	1286	64.107	50	29
404	Braunau am Inn	Upper Austria	BR	1040	105,553	101	46
802	Bregenz	Vorarlberg	B.	865	134,987	156	40
307	Bruck an der Leitha	Lower Austria	BL, SW (B) WU (A)	703	103.735	148	33
621	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag ( Bruck an der Mur )	Styria	BM MZ (A)	2155	98,697	46	19th
603	Deutschlandsberg	Styria	DL	864	60,867	70	15th
803	Dornbirn	Vorarlberg	DO	172	89,912	522	3
405	Eferding ( Grieskirchen )	Upper Austria	EF	260	33,178	128	12
101	Eisenstadt *	Burgenland	E.	43	14,816	346	1
103	Eisenstadt area ( Eisenstadt )	Burgenland	EU	453	43,236	96	23
804	Feldkirch	Vorarlberg	FK	278	108.133	389	24
210	Feldkirchen ( Feldkirchen in Carinthia )	Carinthia	FE	559	29,902	54	10
406	Free City	Upper Austria	FR	994	66,861	67	27
308	Gänserndorf	Lower Austria	GF	1272	104,782	82	44
309	Gmuend	Lower Austria	GD	787	36,553	46	21st
407	Gmunden	Upper Austria	GM	1433	101,859	71	20th
601	Graz *	Styria	G	127	291,072	2283	1
606	Graz area ( Graz )	Styria	GU	1086	156.070	144	36
408	Grieskirchen	Upper Austria	GR	579	64,875	112	33
-	Gröbming ( branch in the Liezen district)	Styria	GB	Figures included in the Liezen district
104	Gussing	Burgenland	GS	485	25,699	53	28
502	Hallein	Salzburg	HA	669	60,824	91	13	Tennengau
622	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld ( Hartberg )	Styria	HF HB, FF (A)	1228	90.606	74	36
203	Hermagor ( Hermagor-Pressegger See )	Carinthia	HE	809	18,054	22nd	7th
310	Hollabrunn	Lower Austria	HL	1011	51,033	50	24
311	horn	Lower Austria	HO	784	30,936	39	20th
702	Imst	Tyrol	IN THE	1724	60,474	35	24
701	Innsbruck *	Tyrol	I.	105	131,961	1259	1
703	Innsbruck-Land ( Innsbruck )	Tyrol	IL	1989	180.453	91	65
105	Jennersdorf	Burgenland	JE	253	17.097	68	12
409	Kirchdorf ( Kirchdorf an der Krems )	Upper Austria	AI	1239	57,071	46	23
704	Kitzbühel	Tyrol	KB	1162	64,168	55	20th
201	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee *	Carinthia	K	120	101,300	844	1
204	Klagenfurt-Land ( Klagenfurt am Wörthersee )	Carinthia	KL	766	60.014	78	19th
312	Korneuburg	Lower Austria	KO WU (A)	662	91,254	138	20th
301	Krems on the Danube *	Lower Austria	KS	52	25,036	484	1
313	Krems ( Krems an der Donau )	Lower Austria	KR	923	56,487	61	30th
705	Kufstein	Tyrol	KU	969	110.287	114	30th
706	Landeck	Tyrol	LA	1595	44,386	28	30th
610	Leibnitz	Styria	LB	751	84,756	113	29
611	Leoben	Styria	LE, LN (C)	1052	59,700	57	16
707	Lienz	Tyrol	LZ	2019	48,738	24	33	East Tyrol
612	Liezen	Styria	LI BA (A)	3315	79,652	24	29
314	Lily field	Lower Austria	LF	932	25,655	28	14th
401	Linz *	Upper Austria	L.	96	206,595	2152	1
410	Linz-Land ( Linz )	Upper Austria	LL	460	151.371	329	22nd
106	Mattersburg	Burgenland	MA	238	40,042	168	19th
315	Melk	Lower Austria	ME	1014	78.191	77	40
316	Mistelbach	Lower Austria	MI	1293	75,625	59	36
317	Mödling	Lower Austria	MD	277	119.115	429	20th
614	Murau	Styria	MU	1384	27,543	20th	14th
620	Murtal ( Judenburg )	Styria	MT JU, KF (A)	1676	71,698	43	20th
318	Neunkirchen	Lower Austria	NK	1150	86,343	75	44
107	Neusiedl am See	Burgenland	ND	1038	59,990	58	27
108	Oberpullendorf	Burgenland	OP	701	37,384	53	28	Central Burgenland
109	Oberwart	Burgenland	OW	732	54.192	74	32
411	Perg	Upper Austria	PE	613	68,968	113	26th
708	Reutte	Tyrol	RE	1236	32,838	27	37	Except far
412	Ried im Innkreis	Upper Austria	RI	584	61,690	106	36
413	Rohrbach ( Rohrbach Mountain )	Upper Austria	RO	817	56,545	69	37
102	Rust *	Burgenland	E.	20th	1980	99	1
501	Salzburg *	Salzburg	S.	66	155.021	2362	1
503	Salzburg area ( Salzburg )	Salzburg	SL	1005	153,492	153	37	Flachgau
504	St. Johann im Pongau	Salzburg	JO	1755	81.194	46	26th	Pongau
302	St. Pölten *	Lower Austria	P	108	55,514	512	1
319	St. Polten	Lower Austria	PL WU (A)	1288	131,729	102	45
205	Sankt Veit an der Glan	Carinthia	SV	1494	54.186	36	20th
414	Schärding	Upper Austria	SD	618	57,391	93	30th
320	Scheibbs	Lower Austria	SB	1024	41,414	40	18th
709	black	Tyrol	SZ	1842	84,329	46	39
206	Spittal an der Drau	Carinthia	SP	2764	75,868	27	33
402	Steyr *	Upper Austria	SR	27	38,056	1434	1
415	Steyr-Land ( Steyr )	Upper Austria	SE	973	60,717	62	20th
623	Southeast Styria ( Feldbach )	Styria	SO FB, RA (A)	985	84.036	85	25th
505	Tamsweg	Salzburg	TA	1020	20,251	20th	15th	Lungau
321	Tulln ( Tulln on the Danube )	Lower Austria	TU, KG (D) WU (A)	734	104,593	142	22nd
416	Urfahr area ( Linz )	Upper Austria	UU	660	86.005	130	27
202	Villach *	Carinthia	VI	135	62,882	466	1
207	Villach-Land ( Villach )	Carinthia	VL	1009	64,618	64	19th
616	Voitsberg	Styria	VO	679	51,044	75	15th
417	Vöcklabruck	Upper Austria	VB	1085	137.297	127	52
208	Völkermarkt	Carinthia	VK	908	41,862	46	13
322	Waidhofen an der Thaya	Lower Austria	WT	669	25,682	38	15th
303	Waidhofen an der Ybbs *	Lower Austria	WY	131	11,222	86	1
617	Wheat	Styria	WZ	1098	90,654	83	31
403	Catfish *	Upper Austria	WE	46	62,470	1362	1
418	Wels Land ( Wels )	Upper Austria	WL	458	73,777	161	24
901	Vienna *	Vienna	W.	415	1,911,191	4607	1
304	Wiener Neustadt *	Lower Austria	WN	61	45,823	753	1
323	Wiener Neustadt	Lower Austria	WB	972	78,307	81	35
209	Wolfsberg	Carinthia	WHERE	974	52,607	54	9
506	Zell am See	Salzburg	ZE	2642	87,628	33	28	Pinzgau
325	Zwettl ( Zwettl-Lower Austria )	Lower Austria	ZT	1399	41,987	30th	24

⁽¹⁾Code number of the political district according to STAT : by federal state, then alphabetically first the statutory cities and then the districts. In the case of new districts, the next free code numbers are assigned.

^(R) Some of today's political districts have names as regions that are still deeply rooted in linguistic usage and are often used in official information.

^(A) expiring

^(B) SW: Schwechat (city), BL: Bruck an der Leitha district without the city of Schwechat

^(C) LE: Leoben (city), LN: Leoben district without the city of Leoben

^(D) KG: Klosterneuburg (city), TU: Tulln district without the city of Klosterneuburg

Legal basis

The districts are each defined in state laws and ordinances based on them; for Burgenland , which was added in 1921, initially also in federal regulations. The first legal stipulations of the respective city's history are noted here for the currently 15 statutory cities .

state	organization	Districts
Burgenland	Burgenland District Authority Act
Carinthia	District Authority Act	Annex to the District Commission Act
Lower Austria	Organization of the district authorities	Ordinance on the administrative districts in Lower Austria
Upper Austria
Salzburg	District Authority Act
Styria	Styrian District Authority Act	Ordinance of the Styrian provincial government on the district, name and seat of the district authorities in Styria
Tyrol	Law on the Organization of District Commissions	Appendix to the organization of the district authorities
Vorarlberg	Organization of the state district administration

Trivia

• All district capitals are municipalities with the exception of the two market communities Reutte and Tamsweg . Also Gröbming than Expositursitz's market town.
• Two districts do not have a contiguous area - so they have exclaves . These are the Lower Austrian districts Wiener Neustadt (two areas separated by the statutory city Wiener Neustadt) and Amstetten, which is divided into two areas by the statutory city Waidhofen an der Ybbs. The Vienna-Umgebung district, which existed until the end of 2016, also had no closed area (three separate areas).
• Eferding and Urfahr-Umgebung, Murtal, Südoststeiermark, as well as the districts with double names (Bruck-Mürzzuschlag and Hartberg-Fürstenfeld) are districts that are not named after the seat of the district administration. However, Eferding was the seat of the district authority until 2016, and Urfahr was the seat of the district authority Urfahr until it was incorporated into Linz (this is still in the Urfahr district of Linz).

The administrative headquarters of the Hermagor district has been called Hermagor-Pressegger See since the municipal merger in 1973 , and that of the Rohrbach district has been called Rohrbach-Berg since the municipal merger in 2015 .

• Linz and Grieskirchen are the only cities that are the seat of two district authorities: Linz-Land and Urfahr-Umgebung as well as Grieskirchen and Eferding, but the latter are united as an administrative community.
• Bregenz is the only state capital without its own statute.
• The statutory cities of Waidhofen an der Ybbs and Rust are the only ones that do not have a corresponding “Land” district.
• Rust is the smallest statutory town (in terms of area and inhabitants) and at the same time the only one without its own license plate number. The largest statutory city is Vienna (in terms of area and inhabitants).
• Klosterneuburg , Leoben and Schwechat have their own license plate number, although they are not statutory cities.
• The districts of Liezen , Spittal an der Drau and Zell am See are each larger in area than the federal state of Vorarlberg .
• The districts of Feldkirch, Mödling, Eferding, Jennersdorf, Mattersburg and Dornbirn are smaller than the federal state of Vienna (in descending order).
• The Dornbirn district consists of only three communities, the Innsbruck-Land district of 65 communities.
• With ten adjoining districts, the Liezen district has the largest number of neighboring districts.

See also

• List of cities in Austria , cities according to other criteria

Web links

Commons : Districts of Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Cities in Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

1. ^ NÖN: District Vienna environment is dissolved . Article dated September 10, 2015, accessed September 10, 2015.
2. ↑ As of January 1, 2016
3. ↑ Population as of
   January 1, 2020
4. ↑ In Styria the code numbers 618 and 619 were omitted, the first new district received code number 620 (Murtal)