Imperial Council (Austria)
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The Imperial Council was the legislature of the Austrian Empire from 1861 until 1918. It was a bicameral body: the upper house was the House of Lords, and the lower house was the House of Deputies. To
Wien Parlament um 1900
Debating chamber of the House of Deputies
Cisleithania
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Cisleithania, officially The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, was the northern and western part of Austria-Hungary, the Dual Monarchy created in the Compromise of 1867—as distin
Imperial Council (Austria)
…having been passed, laws were published in the Reichsgesetzblatt (lit. Reich Law Gazette). In addition to the Imperial Council, the fifteen individual crown lands of Cisleithania had their own diets (German: Landtage). The seat of the Imperial Council from 4 December 1883 was in the Parliament Building on Ringstraße in Vienna…
Initial meeting of the Abgeordnetenhaus in 1907