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Buch-Sankt Magdalena

municipality in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District, Styria, Austria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2481098 ↗
Source-derived summary

Buch-Sankt Magdalena is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria, Austria. It was formed on 1 January 2013 by the merger of the former municipalities Sankt Magdalena am Lemberg and Buch-Geiseldorf.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Buch-Sankt Magdalena” is municipality in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District, Styria, Austria. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Buch-Sankt, Magdalena and municipality, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Buch-Sankt, Magdalena and municipality is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “municipality in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District, Styria, Austria” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2481098. Authority coordinates are 47.226, 16.015. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Buch-Sankt Magdalena”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Buch-Sankt Magdalena primary sources, Buch-Sankt Magdalena archive and Buch-Sankt research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Buch-Sankt Magdalena”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Buch-Sankt Magdalena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.