House of Lords (Austria)

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House of Lords Herrenhaus
Lesser coat of arms of Cisleithania (1915–1918)
Type
Type	Upper house of the Imperial Council (Austria)
Leadership
President (first)	Karl Wilhelm, 8th Prince of Auersperg (1861–1867)
President (last)	Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1897–1918)
Seats	306 (1917)
Meeting place
Debating chamber of the House of Lords Austrian Parliament Building Vienna

The House of Lords (German: Herrenhaus; Czech: Panská sněmovna; Italian: Camera dei signori; Slovene: Gosposka zbornica; Polish: Izba Panów; Romanian: Camera Domnilor) was the upper house of the Imperial Council, the bicameral legislature of the Austrian Empire from 1861 and of the Cisleithanian (Austrian) half of Austria-Hungary upon the Compromise of 1867. Created by the February Patent issued by Emperor Franz Joseph I on 26 February 1861, it existed until the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy, when on 12 November 1918 the transitional National Assembly of German-Austria declared it abolished. It was superseded by the Federal Council of the Austrian Parliament implemented by the 1920 Federal Constitutional Law.