!!!Polizeiordnungen

Polizeiordnungen, regulations of the local princes or rulers of the 
early modern age, developed out of the necessity to regulate several 
areas of civil and criminal law in the course of the development of 
new states. The local princes and Estates had many interests in common 
but differed on many other matters. The term "Polizey" was 
used to mean "good order" in line with the concept of "politeia" as 
used by Aristotle. Accordingly, the areas of law regulated by the 
police were extensive and heterogeneous (trade, servants system, 
clothes, control of public abuses, etc.). The oldest Polizeiordnung 
was that for the laender of Lower Austria (Lower Austria, Upper 
Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Krain/Krajnska, Goerz/Gorizia and Trieste) 
of 1527; similar Polizeiordnungen for these territories were passed in 
1542, 1552, 1671 and 1676. Tirol was given a Polizeiordnung in 1573, 
Styria and Carinthia in 1577.

!Literature
W. Brauneder and I. Helperstorfer (eds.), Die 
oesterreichische Polizei des 16. Jahrhunderts, 1993.


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