Duchy of Salzburg

The Duchy of Salzburg (1806-1918, 1803-1806 Electorate of Salzburg) was created in 1803 from the Archbishopric of Salzburg. 1810 was the area the Salzach county of the Kingdom of Bavaria, from 1816 the Salzburg district of Austria country Austria above the Enns until it was raised in 1849 to become an independent Crown Land Salzburg. From him in 1918 formed the province of Salzburg.

History

The Archbishopric was transformed by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss as a territory of the Holy Roman Empire into a secular electorate, and next to Eichstätt, Berchtesgaden and a part of Passau Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( III.) handed over as compensation for the - under pressure from the victorious Napoleon Bonaparte from him, according to Treaty of Paris (26 December 1802) at the Louis of Parma, then king assigned in Etruria - Grand Duchy of Tuscany. On February 11, 1803 thanked the former sovereign in Salzburg, Hieronymus Colloredo Archbishop Count, from, and Ferdinand III. received the rank of Elector of February 25, 1803.

Salzburg came in time of peace to Pressburg in 1805, the Empire of Austria, while the Elector Ferdinand was compensated for by the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and Eichstätt and Passau fell to Bavaria. Thus, it was after the end of the Holy Roman Empire - as the Elector, who was elected office for the Holy Roman kingship, became void - 1806 converted into a duchy. The duke was the Emperor of Austria (at the time Franz II / I ) was added, and was led in its title.

By the Peace of Vienna of 1809, Salzburg was French and came in 1810 to the Kingdom of Bavaria, where it formed the Salzach in Innkreis circle with Kitzbühel, Traunstein and Ried. After the Peace of Paris of 1814 it came back to Austria in 1816, with the exception of part of the Salzburger share on the left bank of the Salzach, the Rupertiwinkel, which, like Berchtesgaden, remained in Bavaria. The territory of the present-day state of Salzburg (except some whipped Tirol districts) was the country Austria above the Enns added as the fifth circle. 1824 the Archbishopric of Salzburg was built as a purely spiritual organization unit again (but the title of Prince Archbishop Archbishop Rohracher only put back in 1951. )

1849, formally final in 1850, an independent Crown Land Salzburg was formed which, although further equipped with the duke, but was still managed by Linz. This crown land existed until the end of the First World War and the collapse of the 1867 installed dual monarchy of Austria- Hungary.

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