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House of Deputies (Austria)

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House of Deputies

Abgeordnetenhaus
Coat of arms or logo
Lesser coat of arms of Cisleithania (1915–1918)
Type
Type
Leadership
President
Gustav Groß (last)
Seats516 (from 1907)
Meeting place
Debating chamber of the House of Deputies
Austrian Parliament Building
Vienna
Plenary hall of the House of Deputies in the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna

The House of Deputies (Template:Lang-de, Template:Lang-cs, Template:Lang-pl, Template:Lang-it) was, from 1861, the lower house of the bicameral Imperial Council parliament of the Austrian Empire and, from 1867 to 1918, of the Cisleithanian lands within Austria-Hungary. The upper chamber was the House of Lords.

History

The first provisional chamber of deputies established in Austria was held in 1861 in the Währinger Straße in Vienna, in the building referred to as the " Schmerling Theater " which was used until 1883 to accommodate parliamentary meetings.

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