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Further Austria or
Anterior Austria was the collective name for the old possessions of the
Habsburgs in Baden and
Swabia (south-western Germany),
Alsace and in
Vorarlberg after the focus of the Habsburgs had moved to
Austria. Sometimes the
Tyrol was also included in definitions of Further Austria.
Further Austria comprised the
Sundgau (southern
Alsace) and the
Breisgau east of the
Rhine (including
Freiburg im Breisgau after
1368) and included some scattered territories throughout Swabia, the largest being the
margravate of
Burgau in the area of
Augsburg and
Ulm. Some territories in
Vorarlberg that belonged to the Habsburgs were also considered part of Further Austria. The original homelands of the Habsburgs, the
Aargau and much of the other original Habsburg possessions south of the Rhine and
Lake Constance were lost in the
14th century to the expanding
Old Swiss Confederacy after the battles of
Morgarten (
1315) and
Sempach (
1386) and were never considered part of Further Austria, except the
Fricktal, which remained a Habsburg property until
1797.
At the
Treaty of Westphalia in
1648, the Sundgau became part of
France, and in the
18th century, the Habsburgs acquired a few minor new territories in southern Germany such as
Tettnang. In the reorganization of the Holy Roman Empire, much of further Austria, including the Breisgau, was granted as compensation to the former
Duke of Modena, whose heir was Archduke Ferdinand, the uncle of Emperor Francis II. In the
Peace of Pressburg of
1805, Further Austria was entirely dissolved and the formerly Habsburg territories were assigned to
Bavaria,
Baden and
Württemberg. The
Fricktal had become a part of
Switzerland in
1802.
Politically, Further Austria was ruled by the
Duke of Austria until
1379. After that, the ruler of Further Austria was the Archduke ruling
Tyrol.
Literature
- Irmgard Christa Becker (Hg.): Vorderösterreich, Nur die Schwanzfeder des Kaiseradlers? Die Habsburger im deutschen Südwesten. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-8829-4277-0 (Katalog der Landesausstellung).
- Christoph Döbeli: Die Habsburger zwischen Rhein und Donau. 2. Auflage, Erziehungsdepartement des Kantons Aargau, Aarau 1996, ISBN 3-952-06901-9.
- Hans Maier, Volker Press (Hg.): Vorderösterreich in der frühen Neuzeit. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-7058-6.
- Friedrich Metz (Hg.): Vorderösterreich. Eine geschichtliche Landeskunde. 4. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2000, ISBN 3-7930-9237-2.
- Andreas Zekorn, Bernhard Rüth, Hans-Joachim Schuster und Edwin Ernst Weber (Hg.): Vorderösterreich an oberem Neckar und oberer Donau. UVK Verlagsges., Konstanz 2002, ISBN 3-89669-966-0 (hrsg. im Auftrag der Landkreise Rottweil, Sigmaringen, Tuttlingen und Zollernalbkreis).
- Klaus Rommel (Hg.): Das große goldene Medaillon von 1716.(Donativ des Breisgaus,Schwäbisch-Österreich und Vorarlberg zur Geburt Leopolds).Rommel, Lingen 1996, ISBN 3-9807091-0-8.
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