Treaty of Neuberg

The Treaty of Neuberg from September 25, 1379 determined the division of the Habsburg lands.

Had received the Rudolf's house rules by 1364, in the Duke Rudolf IV († 1365 ) and his younger brothers Albrecht and Leopold agreed the indivisibility of the Habsburg lands, now Albrecht and Leopold decided in the Cistercian Abbey Neuberg, at Neuberg an der Murz 1379 without external forced the split of their common heritage, the result was a loss of power of the Habsburgs.

• The Albertine line kept Austria and whether the nid Enns, but without the county Pitten with Wiener Neustadt, which belonged to the Styria.
• The Leopoldine line received Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol and the Swabian territories and Carniola with the Wendish Mark, Inner Istria and acquisitions on the Adriatic Sea ( the later coastal land ).

Nothing changed in the titles of both regents, the mutual inheritance rights and the right of first refusal were maintained.

The division in the Albertine and Leopoldine line of the house was to end only on March 19, 1490. Archduke Sigismund of Tyrol caused by his refusal of the government in favor of Tyrol King Maximilian I for the reunion of the Habsburg possessions.