Districts of Austria
The list of political districts and Austria Statutarstädte with indication of the respective federal state of Austria. In Vorarlberg and Lower Austria, the political districts called counties.
On top of these administrative units are not selected, but professional bodies.
Structure
There are currently (2013 )
On the division into districts follows the division into communities as the lowest level of political administrative divisions.
Most of the districts are political - not always congruent - also divided into judicial districts. There are 134 judicial districts with their own district courts. However, the jurisdiction of the circuit court does not have to follow the administrative divisions of the districts.
The capital Vienna is both state and political district and community. Vienna is divided into 23 municipal districts. These are in their design, but not comparable with political districts. They are led by elected Bezirksvorstehern, but have few skills.
The districts and statutory cities correspond to any level of the EU's NUTS breakdown (Eurostat ), NUTS -3: AT consists of groups of political / judicial districts. The level LAU -1 (Local administrative units, formerly NUTS -4) is not occupied in Austria, LAU 2: AT are the churches.
Reorganization in 2012
In Styria, a reorganization of the district headquarters was 2012/2013 made that touches eight former political districts, see Mur district.
Graphical overview
List
Legal foundations
The statutory provisions of the districts based on the respective national laws and regulations
Trivia
- All district towns are municipalities with the exception of the two market towns Reutte and Tamsweg. Also Groebming as Expositursitz is market town.
- Three districts have not a closed area - so have enclaves. These are the districts of Lower Austria Wien-Umgebung ( three separate areas), Wiener Neustadt-Land (two separated by the Statutory Wiener Neustadt territories), Amstetten, which is divided by the Statutory Waidhofen an der Ybbs in two areas.
- Mur Valley, Southeastern Styria, Urfahr and Vienna-surrounding as well as the districts with a double name ( Bruck- Miirzzuschlag and Hartenberg Fürstenfeld ) the districts of Austria, who are not named after the seat of the district team.
- Linz is the only city that is home to two Bezirkshauptmannschaften: Linz-Land and Urfahr.
- Bregenz is the only state capital without its own statutes.
- The Statutory Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Rust and Vienna are the only ones that have no corresponding "Country" District.
- The Liezen is larger in area than the state of Vorarlberg.
- Also the Liezen with eleven adjoining districts throughout Austria that district with most neighboring districts.