Out of the mountains
The outer mountains , also the land before the mountains or the flat land , was a name for the northern part of the holdings of the Archbishopric Salzburg in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. With regard to the current borders of the federal state of Salzburg , it describes the northern, flatter part of the country, which faces the Inner Mountains in the south .
history
The outlying mountains were the area north of the city of Salzburg and the Waginger See in the southeast of Upper Bavaria . It corresponds to the old Bavarian Salzburggau , but without the Reichenhall Valley, which remained with Bavaria when Salzburg became a state in the 14th century. The flat land was divided between Austria and Bavaria in 1816 ( Congress of Vienna 1815, return of the Salzburg part of the Salzach district , among others ) (kk Salzburgkreis near Upper Austria ob der Enns, Salzachkreis near Bavaria). The northern Austrian part is called Flachgau and the southern part is called Tennengau , the Bavarian part is called Rupertiwinkel .
The parts of Salzburg in the mountains - Pinzgau , Pongau and Lungau , historically also the archbishop's possessions that belong to Tyrol today - were (and still are) called the Inner Mountains . The Berchtesgadener Land , which belonged to Salzburg for a short time after 1803, was already "secularly independent" from 1294 and, as the prince-provost of Berchtesgaden, from 1559 to 1803 it was an imperial principality that was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1810 .
The natural spatial connection between today's Austrian and Bavarian areas is emphasized again in the EuRegio Salzburg - Berchtesgadener Land - Traunstein as a cross-border project of communal cooperation.
literature
- Heinz Dopsch: A short history of Salzburg, city and country . Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-7025-0441-9 .
- Fritz Koller, Hermann Rumschöttel: Bavaria and Salzburg in the 19th and 20th centuries . Munich, Salzburg 2006, ISBN 3-921635-98-5 .