Crownlands of the Austrian Empire


The individual arms of the Empire ruled by the Habsburgs in the following periods:

  • Habsburg monarchy or Austrian monarchy (1526–1867).
  • Austrian Empire (1804–1867).
  • Austria-Hungary or Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918).
  • Crownlands (1849–1918): This is the name of all the individual parts of the Austrian Empire (since 1849) not including the Lands of the Hungarian Crown.

For the coats of arms of the Rulers see the House of Habsburg and House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

The Hereditary Lands

Inner Austria:

Archduchy of Austria (Upper Austria) (1278-1918)
Archduchy of Austria ( Lower Austria) (1278-1918)
Duchy of Styria (1379-1918)
Duchy of Carinthia ( 1335-1918)
Duchy of Carniola (1364-1918)
Austrian Littoral or Küstenland including:
Imperial Free City of Trieste (1382-1918)
Margravate of Istria (1797-1805) (1814-1918)
Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (1500-1918)

Further Austria:

Princely County of Tyrol (1363-1918)

County of Vorarlberg (1525-1918)

Vorlande including amongst many smaller territories:

Margraviate of Burgau (1301-1805)
County of Kyburg (1264-1424)
Landgraviate of Sundgau (1324-1659)
County of Ferrette (1324-1644)
Grand Duchy of Salzburg
(1805-1918)

Lands of the Bohemian Crown

Kingdom of Bohemia (1526-1918)
March of Moravia (1526-1918)
Duchy of Silesia (1526-1918, only Upper Silesia after1740)
County of Upper Lusatia (1526-1635)
County of Lower Lusatia (1526-1635)
Duchy of Teschen (1526-1918)

The Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary (1526-1918)
Principality of Transylvania (1683-1918, Grand Principality after 1765)
The Triunine Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia after 1867:

Kingdom of Croatia (1527-1918)

Kingdom of Slavonia (1526-1918)

Kingdom of Dalmatia (1815-1918)

Other Lands Ruled by Austria

Austrian (formerly Spanish) Netherlands (1581-1790)
Duchy of Milan (1713–1797)
Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1814–1859)
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (1772–1918)
Duchy of Bukovina (1774–1918)
Free City of Crakow (1815-1846) and Grand Duchy of Cracow (1846-1918)
Kingdom of Naples (1713–1735)
Kingdom of Sicily (1720–1735)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918)