Electorate of Salzburg

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Kurfürstentum Salzburg"
conventional_long_name = Electorate of Salzburg
common_name = Salzburg
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Austria
era = Napoleonic Wars
status =
empire = Holy Roman Empire
government_type = Principality
year_start = 1803
date_start =
year_end = 1805
event_end = Mediatised to Austria
date_end =
p1 = Archbishopric of Salzburg
image_p1 =
s1 = Austrian Empire
flag_s1 = Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg
capital = Salzburg


image_map_caption =Electorate of Salzburg
leader1 = Ferdinand III of Tuscany
title_leader = Prince-elector
year_leader1 = 1803 — 1805
footnotes =

The Electorate of Salzburg ( _de. Kurfürstentum Salzburg or "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

*cite book|last=Köbler|first=Gerhard|title=Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder|publisher=Verlag C. H. Beck|location=Munich|year=1988|pages=639|isbn=3406332900 de icon