Kronländer#
Crown Lands (Kronlaender), name of the hereditary countries of the House of Habsburg and after 1867 of all kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat. Crown lands were Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tirol and Vorarlberg, which are provinces of Austria today, and Carniola, Gorizia, Gradisca, Trieste and Istria, as well as Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina and Dalmatia. Each of the crown lands had a Landtag (parliament), which was elected by the "Kurien" (representative bodies, one for owners of large estates, one for the chambers of trade and commerce, one for towns and market towns, and one for rural municipalities); this was provided for in the Oktoberdiplom of 1860 and the provincial codes enacted after the February Patent of 1861.