Marburg District (Styria)

The Marburg district at the end of the 18th century, with a brief description

The Marburger Kreis was an administrative unit of the Duchy of Styria in Inner Austria . It was called the middle part of Lower Styria .

Emergence

The Marburger Kreis was created as part of the administrative reform under Maria Theresa from 1748, which replaced the earlier division of Styria into quarters . This reform was initiated under Count Haugwitz and continued from 1760 under Count Kaunitz . The Marburg district was initially in the area between the Mur and Drau , which stretched from Frohnleiten (Gamsgraben) to Polstrau an der Drau. At its head was a district chief who ran 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.

With the administrative reforms after 1848, the districts functioned only as a supervisory authority and were replaced in 1867 by the more delicate system of political districts .

location

Originally the district office was in Leibnitz , the district was called Leibnitzer Kreis. In 1750 the district office was moved to Marburg and the district became the Marburg district. The expansion of the circle soon proved inexpedient.

From November 1, 1783, the district was expanded to include a few parishes south of the Drau (St. Lorenzen am Bachern / Lovrenc na Pohorju west of Marburg, Kötsch , Schleinitz , St. Lorenzen am Draufeld / Lovrenc na Dravskem polju, Haidin, St. Veit and Sauritsch ), while the parishes in Kainachtal and St. Stefan ob Stainz , Stainz , Preding , Hengsberg , Wildon and Lebring were drawn to the Grazer Kreis.

In 1805 the northern border of the district was moved further south and the communities between the Stainzbach and the Laßnitz ( advertising districts Stainz and Hornegg near Preding) were also included in the Graz district. From then on, the boundaries of the district remained unchanged until the regional reform in 1848.

The Marburg district thus comprised the districts Voitsberg (with the exception of the parishes in the Graz area) and Deutschlandsberg , the Leibnitz district west of the Mur , in present-day Slovenia the Windischen Bühel (Slovenske Gorice) to the town, depending on the territorial status in what is now Austria in western Styria Luttenberg (Ljutomer) and Pettau (Ptuj), the area of Marburg an der Drau (Maribor) and the Bacher Mountains (Bachern, Pohorje).

In the north of the Marburg district was the Grazer Kreis , in the east and south the Hungarian counties Eisenburg (Vasvár), Salad (Zala), Varaždin and Agram (Zagreb), in the west the Cillier district and the Klagenfurt district .

In 1788 there were 186 099 inhabitants in the Marburg district.

As a result of the administrative reform from 1848, the name “Marburger Kreis” was retained, but the district was significantly enlarged and its northern border changed again. From then on, the district was entrusted with other (only administrative) tasks, while the jurisdiction was transferred to the regional and district courts. In addition to the area of its predecessor, this new Marburg district also included the area of the former Cillier district , although the judicial districts Radkersburg (with Mureck ), Leibnitz (with Arnfels , Eibiswald and Wildon ) and Stainz (with Voitsberg and Landsberg / Deutschlandsberg ) were added to the Grazer Passed circle. As part of the court organization in the area of this new Marburg district, the district court Cilli was created (in addition to the district courts) at the seat of the former district administration. The district had an area of 109.8 square miles and a population of 381,086.

The area of the Marburg district from the 17th to the 19th century
The Marburg district of Styria 1678, forerunner of the Marburg district
The Marburg district around 1760 also included the Voitsberg district
The Marburg district in the south of Styria, 1855, with the indication of the new (three) districts and a schematic representation of the new district boundaries.

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. S. 173. Schütz, general geography in the Google book search

Gernot Peter Obersteiner: District Office and District Chief in Styria after 1748. Establishment and activity of the new subordinate authorities of Maria Theresa. In: Herwig Ebner, Horst Haselsteiner et al. (Ed.): History research in Graz. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Institute for History of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. 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 from 1868 to 1918. (with previous history) In: Messages from the Styrian regional archive. 42/43 (1993), pp. 77-98. (on-line)

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

^ Walter Brunner: Maps of the Grazer and Marburger Kreis . In: Steiermark Edition, part of Grenzmark-Herzogtum-Bundesland, STE 01014. Archive publishing house. Vienna 1991 ff.
↑ 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”. Austrian Reich Law Gazette number 373 year 1849 (supplementary volume December 1848 – October 1849), p. 663–666 ( on the Marburger Kreis p. 666 ).

[1] Walter Brunner: Maps of the Grazer and Marburger Kreis . In: Steiermark Edition, part of Grenzmark-Herzogtum-Bundesland, STE 01014. Archive publishing house. Vienna 1991 ff.

[2] 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”. Austrian Reich Law Gazette number 373 year 1849 (supplementary volume December 1848 – October 1849), p. 663–666 ( on the Marburger Kreis p. 666 ).