List of the Dukes of Salzburg

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Crown Land Salzburg (1890)

By the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of February 25, 1803 (Imperial ratification by Franz II. April 27, 1803), the ecclesiastical prince-archbishopric of Salzburg was dissolved after Archbishop Colloredo abdicated in exile in Vienna on February 11, 1803, and a new duchy was installed was also associated with the electoral dignity . This Salzburg electorate was as the Peace of Luneville envisaged (9 February 1801), as compensation the former Grand Duke of Tuscany , Habsburg Sekundogenitur handed over his country at the instigation of Napoleon Bonaparte had lost.

The electoral dignity, originally - after the experiences with Karl Albrecht of Bavaria in the War of the Austrian Succession 60 years earlier - intended to secure the imperial office for Habsburg, became obsolete on August 6, 1806 with the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire . The province of Salzburg itself was annexed to Austria the year before, soon French in the Napoleonic Wars , then Bavarian, and again Austrian after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 (without the Rupertiwinkel), but until March 4, 1849, the Salzburg district was only part of the Archduchy of Austria whether the Enns . Regardless of this, the titular ducal dignity continued unbroken, it remained until the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in World War I and the abolition of monarchies .

"Duke of Salzburg" as the title of Austrian emperor

Before 1803 see: List of Archbishops of Salzburg This title existed z. Partly also in the time when there was no state "Salzburg". The complete list of the numerous titles of the emperor was from 1806: Franz the First, by God's grace Emperor of Austria, King of Jerusalem, Hungarn, Boheim, Dalmazien, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria; Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Würzburg and Franconia, Steyer, Carinthia and Carniola; Grand Duke of Cracow; Grand Duke of Transylvania; Margrave in Moravia; Duke of Sandomir, Massovia, Lublin, Upper and Lower Silesia, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen and Friuli; Prince of Berchtoldsgaden and Mergentheim; Prince Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Kyburg, Görz and Gradiska; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Lord of the Lands Vollhynien, Podlachein and Berzesz, to Trieste, to Freudenthal and Eulenburg and on the Windischen Mark etc. etc. etc.

Surname dynasty from to Remarks
Franz ,
Emperor of Austria
Habsburg-Lorraine December 26, 1805 October 14, 1809 Salzburg received in the Peace of Pressburg December 26, 1805, lost it in the Peace of Schönbrunn October 14, 1809
Franz ,
Emperor of Austria
Habsburg-Lorraine May 1, 1816 March 2, 1835 received Salzburg in the Munich State Treaty . Under the name "Salzachkreis", Salzburg essentially became a part of Austria above the Enns
Ferdinand ,
Emperor of Austria.
Habsburg-Lorraine . March 2, 1835 December 2, 1848 Salzburg remained a part of Austria above the Enns under the name "Salzachkreis". Government was handed over on December 2, 1848
Franz Joseph ,
Emperor of Austria
Habsburg-Lorraine December 2, 1848 November 21, 1916 Salzburg became an independent crown land in 1850
Karl ,
Emperor of Austria
Habsburg-Lorraine November 21, 1916 November 11, 1918 Resignation from government business on November 11, 1918

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