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4 unusual facts about Further Austria


Alexander Utendal

After Ferdinand was made Archduke of Further Austria in 1564 after his father's death, he moved his court from Prague (he was the governor of Bohemia) to Innsbruck.

Further Austria

In 1665 the Habsburg lands were finally re-unified under the rule of Emperor Leopold I.

Also ruled from the Habsburg residence in Ensisheim near Mühlhausen were numerous scattered territories stretching from Upper Swabia to the Allgäu region in the east, the largest being the margravate of Burgau between the cities of Augsburg and Ulm.

Zuzgen

Following the country reforms of the Austrian King Maximilian I., Hellikon fell under the authority of "Further Austria" in 1491.


Fricktal

After the Habsburg dynasty had lost large parts of its original Swabian possessions south of the Rhine to the Swiss Confederacy at the 1386 Battle of Sempach, the remaining Fricktal was administered from the Oberamt Breisgau of Further Austria (Vorderösterreich) at Freiburg, while the adjacent Unteraargau region to the south was finally conquered by the Swiss at Bern in 1415.

Görwihl

Like many places in the region, Görwihl belonged to the county Hauenstein within Further Austria.

Treaty of Neuberg

While Albert retained the Archduchy of Austria, Leopold became the exclusive ruler of the Duchies of Styria (including the town of Wiener Neustadt), Carinthia, Carniola, the Windic march, the County of Gorizia and the Habsburgs' possessions in Friuli, Tyrol and Further Austria.


see also

County of Tyrol

When Emperor Ferdinand I of Habsburg died in 1564, he bequeathed the rule over Tyrol and Further Austria to his second son Archduke Ferdinand II.

Leopold V

Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (1586–1632), Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria