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Lafnitz

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 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ637588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lafnitz (German pronunciation: [ˈlafnɪt͡s] ) is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria, Austria. It is situated on the upper course of the river Lafnitz.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lafnitz” as municipality in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District, Styria, Austria. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 27-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lafnitz, municipality and Hartberg-Fürstenfeld can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as municipality in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District, Styria, Austria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q637588. VIAF identifies the subject as 312778085. The Library of Congress control number is n2005000569. Authority coordinates are 47.369, 16.013. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Lafnitz”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lafnitz primary sources, Lafnitz archive and Lafnitz 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 “Lafnitz”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lafnitz” 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.