Patents and Kurrenden

The holding comprises of mandates, announcings, circular letters and more, of the government, of political authorities, of the legal authority and the Estates (self-administration of the Dukedom of Styria). The main part of the preserved pieces is in printed form, single ones in stock are also in transcriptive form. The holding comprises of a single series and a series of volumes.

Range: 15 slipcases, 500 fascicles, 438 volumes
Runtime: 1488 - 1879
Sigle: PuK

Note: The holding group Governmental Archives also includes a wide-ranged collection of patents and Kurrenden (e.g.: A. Bad Aussee a comprehensive collection of patents of the Judenburg District Office; A. Radkersburg 69 volumes of Normalien). In single special archives there are also patents and Kurrenden.

Single series
The single series is ordered chronologically. In it's foundation it emerged when the patents of the Provincial Archives were taken over together with their relevant repertories, but still showed major voids. In addition, patents and Kurrenden were extracted systematically out of other holdings over years, particularly out of sovereignty and communal archives, and were ordered into the series based on the Estates Archives. When sovereignty and communal archives that were purchased after 1985 were concerned, the patents in stock there remained with the holding.

Series of volumes
It comprises of patents and "Kurrenden" which were united in a volume for special reasons, and patents. Also the series of volumes was mainly extracted from sovereignty archives. It is devided into 13 groups.