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Attornment, acknowledgement of a new sovereign by the Estates. In what 
is now the province of Lower Austria ("Oesterreich unter der Enns"), 
attornment was carried out in a ceremonial procession, moving along 
the Graben (street in the 1%%sup st/%  district of Vienna) to St. 
Stephen´s Cathedral and carrying the  Erzherzogshut; from there 
the procession went on to the Hofburg, where the actual act of 
attornment took place and the insignia were presented to the holder of 
the hereditary offices. In the 18%%sup th/%  century these processions 
were documented in magnificent editions. Frequently, attornment took 
place long after a ruler had taken office, e.g. in Styria and 
Carinthia it was not until 1728 that the attornment of Karl VI 
took place. J. F. Fromiller documented an attornment in 
Klagenfurt as a ceiling fresco in the Landhaus of Klagenfurt and at 
Ossiach.

!Literature
G. Kugler, in: Der heilige Leopold, exhibition catalogue, 
Klosterneuburg 1985.


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