History of Austria: Primary Documents
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- Texts and Archives
- (transcriptions)
- Quellen zur mittelalterlichen Reichsgeschichte - temporarily offline...
- Sources for the History of the Medieval Germanic Empire -- Early, High and Late Middle Ages.
- Includes the Hanseatic League.
- (800 - 1503; Latin and contemporary German transcriptions with critical apparatus)
- Virtual Document Archive of Central European Cloisters and Bishoprics - Austria
- Documenting not only the history of the cloisters themselves,
- but developments in church, state and society in Central Europe since the Early Middle Ages.
- (1049 to the present; Latin and vernacular facsimiles and transcriptions).
- Facsimiles of German-language medieval manuscripts.
- Organized by locations of manuscripts.
- (Transcriptions)
- (17 September 1156; English translation)
- (6 December 1286; modern German translation)
- (6 May 1287; modern German translation)
- Chronicle of Hall in Tyrol.
- (1303-1572, printed 1867; facsimile of print source)
- Complete facsimile of the Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 in the Heidelberg university library,
- A famous and well-preserved collection of medieval German literature.
- (1305-1340; German facsimiles)
- (transcriptions & translations)
- The letters of Austrian and Bavarian noblewomen, set against the backdrop of their relationships and cultural status.
- Wills, inventories of holdings, and marriage contracts are also in the process of digitization.
- A project of the Institute for History, University of Vienna.
- (16th - 18th centuries; contemporary German-language transcriptions)
- (1592-1597, facsimiles).
- Peace Treaty ending the Thirty Years War.
- (24 October 1648, English translation)
- A collection of correspondence in German from Sophie: A Digital Library of Early German Women's Writing.
- (1736 - 1780; German transcriptions)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (18th century; transcriptions and translations)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (19th century; transcriptions and translations)
- (1849-present; translations and transcriptions)
- From the Avalon Project
- (1829 - 1909; English translations and transcriptions)
- A major book digitization project of the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte .
- For an overview of subjects, click on "Systematik"
- (19th century; facsimiles)
- Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War.
- (1 July 1914 - 27 August 1914; German with occasional French and English transcriptions)
- Diplomatic Documents leading to World War I.
- Section I, Nos 1-19, Appendices 1 and 2.
- (1914; English translations)
- Documenting events from before Sarajevo until after Versailles.
- (pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
- Major Resource
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1914-1919; translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1918-1941; translations)
- Historical documents of the Austrian women's movement.
- Gathered by Ariadne, the women's documentation project of the Austrian National Library.
- (1918-1938; facsimile books and periodicals)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
- A collection of documents related to WWII.
- From the Avalon Project.
- Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
- (1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1938-1945; translations)
- Oral histories of Austrian-Jewish emigrees who fled to the USA during the Nazi years.
- Part of the Center for Jewish History Digital Collections.
- (20th century; audio files)
- Documents paving the way towards Austrian independence.
- (1955; German transcriptions)
- Also contains commentaries and annotations
- (Translations and Hungarian transcriptions, some ftp-able)
- Primary Documents on 20th Century Austrian History
- (20th century; German transcriptions)
- Excerpts from historical Austrian constitutions
- (1867 - 1955; German transcriptions with French and English translations)
- With revisions to 1983, plus other laws and treaties including the neutrality treaty of 1955.
- (English translations).
- Includes speeches, interviews and press releases of the Austrian Federal Foreign Ministry.
- (English translations and German transcriptions)
- Minutes of the Sessions of the Bundesrat (Federal Council), Nationalrat (National Council)
- and Bundesversammlung (Federal Assembly) of the Austrian Parliament.
- (1995-present; transcriptions)
- Online corpus of Austrian laws provided by the Austrian National Library, including legal texts from:
- The Monarchy
- Justizgesetzsammlung 1780-1848
- Reichsgesetzblatt 1848-1918
- Kronländer
- Stenographische Protokolle des Abgeordnetenhauses 1861-1918
- Stenographische Protokolle des Herrenhauses 1861-1918)
- First Republic
- Staatsgesetzblatt 1918-1920
- Bundesgesetzblatt 1920-1934
- Bundesgesetzblatt 1934-1938
- Bundesländer 1918-1938
- Austria after Anschluss to the German Reich
- Gesetzblatt für das Land Österreich 1938-1940
- Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt
- Reichsgaue 1938-1945
- Second Republic
- Bundesländer
- Current laws are linked to the Rechtsinformationssystem from the Federal Chancellor's office.
- (1780 to the present; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Other materials from the Austrian Parliament.
- (Transcriptions)
- Including essays of important economic thinkers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries.
- (English transcriptions and translations)
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- (Translations and transcriptions)
- Mostly History of German-Speaking Countries (P = Primary, S = Secondary, M = Instructional Materials)
- Click on "P" within a given chronology for primary source documents.
- (German transcriptions and German translations)
- Austriaca -- Austrian & Austro-Hungarian historical documents (and literature).
- from Austrian Literature Online.
- (17th-20th centuries; German-language facsimiles)
- Styriaca -- Historical documents and literature of Styria
- from Austrian Literature Online.
- (19th-20th centuries; German-language facsimiles)
- Tyrolensia Latina -- Early Tyrolian historical documents and literature.
- Tyrolensien
- Further historical documents and literature of Tyrol.
- Both from Austrian Literature Online.
- (16th-20th centuries; German-language facsimiles)
- Istorija Balkana : Digital Balkan History
- An ambitious and fast-growing collection of e-books and sources, available only in a Serbo-Croatian interface.
- Requires free registration in order to view sources (See especially "Izvori ").
- (Facsimiles, links and an online forum)
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic cities
- (Facsimiles)
- Map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1906, just over a decade before its dissolution.
- (1906; zoombale map)
- 18th-century French map of the Austrian Circle, which included parts of present-day Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland.
- (1792; zoomable map)
- Listed by newspaper title or by year.
- An ambitious project of the Austrian National Library in cooperation with the Parlamentsbibliothek.
- (1738 to the present; facsimile pages)
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- (Facsimiles).
- (Facsimiles).
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