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The Austrian nobility (German: österreichischer Adel) is a status group that was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary. Austria's system of nobility was very similar to that of Germany (see German nobility ), as both countries were previously part of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806).
20th-century Austrian nobility (1 C, 9 P) Austrian royalty and nobility with disabilities (14 P) Austrian nobles by title (9 C) Nobility from Vienna (161 P):
Pages in category "Austrian noble families" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Althann;
The Austrian comital title (Graf) was the second most prestigious title of the Austrian nobility, forming the higher nobility (hoher Adel) alongside the princes (Furst); this close inner circle, called the 100 Familien (100 families), possessed enormous riches and lands.
Although the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz (Law on the Abolition of the Nobility) abolished all Austrian and Hungarian noble, royal, and imperial titles in 1919, [9] and their usage is still illegal in those countries, [10] media elsewhere occasionally refer to Karl Habsburg by his ancestral titles [11] [12] of Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of ...
Nobility from Vienna. Pages in category "Nobility from Vienna" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. ... Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of ...
The March of Austria, also known as Marcha Orientalis, was first formed in 976 out of the lands that had once been the March of Pannonia in Carolingian times. The oldest attestation dates back to 996, where the written name "ostarrichi" occurs in a document transferring land in present-day Austria to a Bavarian monastery.
Austrian baron: 1550; imperial baron: 1552; imperial count: 1627. Act VIII of 1886 confirmed the hereditary seat of the descendants of Baron Leonhard Harrach and his two sons at the Upper House of the Diet of Hungary. [78] Herberstein: Article 77 of 1609 Austrian baron: 1531; imperial baron: 1537; Austrian count: 1644; imperial count: 1710. [79]