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Electorate of Salzburg
The Electorate of Salzburg (German : Kurfürstentum Salzburg Kursalzburg ), occasionally known as the Grand Duchy of Salzburg , was an electoral principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1803–05. Its capital was Salzburg .
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was secularized in 1803 as part of the German Mediatisation and reorganized as the Electorate of Salzburg. The electorate was created for Ferdinand III , former Grand Duke of Tuscany . Its territory also included parts of the Berchtesgaden Provostry , the Bishopric of Eichstätt , and the Bishopric of Passau . The electorate passed to the Austrian Empire according to the 1805 Peace of Pressburg ; Ferdinand was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , while the Eichstätt and Passau areas fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Salzburg then passed from Austria to Bavaria in the 1809 Treaty of Schönbrunn . The region was returned to Austria in the 1814 Peace of Paris and was subsequently administered from Linz in the Archduchy of Upper Austria . The Salzburg region became the Duchy of Salzburg in 1850.
References
Köbler, Gerhard (1988). Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder . Munich : Verlag C. H. Beck, 639. ISBN 3406332900 . (German)
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