diff --git a/application/controllers/AuthenticationController.php b/application/controllers/AuthenticationController.php
index e47b9f1f2..9a5979019 100644
--- a/application/controllers/AuthenticationController.php
+++ b/application/controllers/AuthenticationController.php
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ class AuthenticationController extends ActionController
      */
     public function loginAction()
     {
-        $this->replaceLayout = true;
         $credentials = new Credential();
+        $this->_helper->layout->setLayout('inline');
         $this->view->form = new LoginForm();
         $this->view->form->setRequest($this->_request);
         $this->view->title = "Icinga Web Login";
@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ class AuthenticationController extends ActionController
      */
     public function logoutAction()
     {
+        $this->_helper->layout->setLayout('inline');
         $auth = AuthManager::getInstance(null, array(
             'writeSession' => $this->modifiesSession
         ));
-        $this->replaceLayout = true;
         $auth->removeAuthorization();
         $this->redirectToLogin();
     }
diff --git a/application/views/scripts/authentication/login.phtml b/application/views/scripts/authentication/login.phtml
index 45ec5603d..9b56c817c 100644
--- a/application/views/scripts/authentication/login.phtml
+++ b/application/views/scripts/authentication/login.phtml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 <div class="well">
   <h1>Login</h1>
 
@@ -10,3 +9,16 @@
   <?php endif ?>
 
 </div>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+    /*
+     * Preserve the html anchor when redirecting to the originally called link. This
+     * is useful for preserving the detail view and the selection in that case.
+     *
+     * refs #4833
+     *
+     * TODO: Copy this snipped into the new login.phtml
+     */
+    var url = document.URL.match(/(^[^#]*)/)[0] + encodeURIComponent(window.location.hash);
+    document.getElementById('form_login').action = url;
+</script>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/library/Icinga/Web/Controller/ActionController.php b/library/Icinga/Web/Controller/ActionController.php
index e5ee5a5b3..d5f71e908 100755
--- a/library/Icinga/Web/Controller/ActionController.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/Web/Controller/ActionController.php
@@ -50,13 +50,6 @@ use \Icinga\Web\Request;
  */
 class ActionController extends Zend_Controller_Action
 {
-    /**
-     * True to mark this layout to not render the full layout
-     *
-     * @var bool
-     */
-    protected $replaceLayout = false;
-
     /**
      * Whether the controller requires the user to be authenticated
      *
@@ -171,13 +164,14 @@ class ActionController extends Zend_Controller_Action
     /**
      * Return the URI that can be used to request the current action
      *
-     * @return string   return the path to this action: <Module>/<Controller>/<Action>
+     * @return string   return the path to this action: <Module>/<Controller>/<Action>?<Query>
      */
     public function getRequestUrl()
     {
-        return $this->_request->getModuleName() . '/' .
-         $this->_request->getControllerName() . '/' .
-         $this->_request->getActionName();
+         $base = $this->_request->getModuleName() . '/' .
+            $this->_request->getControllerName() . '/' .
+            $this->_request->getActionName();
+         return $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] !== '' ? $base . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : $base;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/library/Icinga/Web/Url.php b/library/Icinga/Web/Url.php
index fe58df966..ba1eeb920 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/Web/Url.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/Web/Url.php
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ class Url
      */
     private $params = array();
 
+    /**
+     * The site anchor after the '#'
+     *
+     * @var string
+     */
+    private $anchor = '';
+
     /**
      * The relative path of this Url, without query parameters
      *
@@ -108,7 +115,16 @@ class Url
         }
         $urlObject->setBaseUrl($request->getBaseUrl());
 
+        /*
+         * Fetch fragment manually and remove it from the url, to 'help' the parse_url() function
+         * parsing the url properly. Otherwise calling the function with a fragment, but without a
+         * query will cause unpredictable behaviour.
+         */
+        $fragment = self::getUrlFragment($url);
+        $url = self::stripUrlFragment($url);
+
         $urlParts = parse_url($url);
+
         if (isset($urlParts["path"])) {
             $urlObject->setPath($urlParts["path"]);
         }
@@ -117,11 +133,43 @@ class Url
             parse_str($urlParts["query"], $urlParams);
             $params = array_merge($urlParams, $params);
         }
+        if ($fragment !== '') {
+            $urlObject->setAnchor($fragment);
+        }
 
         $urlObject->setParams($params);
         return $urlObject;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Get the fragment of a given url
+     *
+     * @param   $url    The url containing the fragment.
+     *
+     * @return  string  The fragment without the '#'
+     */
+    private static function getUrlFragment($url)
+    {
+        $url = parse_url($url);
+        if (isset($url['fragment'])) {
+            return $url['fragment'];
+        } else {
+            return '';
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Remove the fragment-part of a given url
+     *
+     * @param $url  string  The url to strip from its fragment
+     *
+     * @return      string  The url without the fragment.
+     */
+    private static function stripUrlFragment($url)
+    {
+        return preg_replace('/#.*$/', '', $url);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Overwrite the baseUrl.
      *
@@ -179,9 +227,9 @@ class Url
     public function getRelativeUrl()
     {
         if (empty($this->params)) {
-            return ltrim($this->path, '/');
+            return ltrim($this->path, '/') . $this->anchor;
         }
-        return ltrim($this->path, '/').'?'.http_build_query($this->params);
+        return ltrim($this->path, '/') . '?' . http_build_query($this->params) . $this->anchor;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -280,6 +328,16 @@ class Url
         return $this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Set the url anchor-part
+     *
+     * @param $anchor   The site's anchor string without the '#'
+     */
+    public function setAnchor($anchor)
+    {
+        $this->anchor = '#' . $anchor;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Remove provided key (if string) or keys (if array of string) from the query parameter array
      *