Treaty of Neuberg

The Neuberg Treaty of September 25, 1379 determined the division of the Habsburg lands.

Contrary to the Rudolfinian house rules of 1364, in which Duke Rudolf IV († 1365) had agreed with his younger brothers Albrecht and Leopold the indivisibility of the Habsburg lands, Albrecht and Leopold decided in the Cistercian monastery Neuberg , near Neuberg an der Mürz , 1379 without external compulsion, the splitting up of their common heritage, the consequence of which was a loss of power for the Habsburgs.

• The Albertine line kept Austria whether and nid of Enns , but without the county Pitten with Wiener Neustadt , which belonged to Styria.
• The Leopoldine line received the Styria , Carinthia , Tyrol and the Vorlande as well as the Carniola with the Windische Mark , Inner istrien and the new acquisitions on the Adriatic (later the coastal area ).

Nothing changed in the titles of both regents, the mutual inheritance claims and the right of first refusal were retained.

The division into the Albertine and Leopoldine lines of the house was not to end until March 19, 1490. Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol , by renouncing the government in Tyrol in favor of King Maximilian I, ensured the reunification of the Habsburg possessions.

literature

• Walter Kleindel: The Chronicle of Austria . 3rd revised edition. Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1989, ISBN 3-88379-027-3 .

Web links

• Entry on Neuberger partition agreement in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Neuberger partition contract in the Austrian State Archives http://www.archivinformationssystem.at/detail.aspx?ID=713845