Salzburg

The Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg was a church state of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled from Salzburg. In 1337 Archbishop Frederick III of Leibnitz governed its imperial territory.

In the 1520s Protestant books brought by Saxon miners helped stir peasant revolts. Paris von Lodron kept Salzburg neutral during the Thirty Years’ War. In 1731 Leopold Anton von Firmian expelled over twenty thousand Protestants, most of whom settled in Prussia. Secularization ended the prince-archbishops’ temporal rule in 1803; the territory passed to Austria in 1805 and Bavaria in 1809.