| Electorate of Salzburg Kurfürstentum Salzburg |
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| Electorate of Salzburg | ||||
| Capital | Salzburg | |||
| Government | Principality | |||
| Prince-elector | ||||
| - 1803 — 1805 | Ferdinand III of Tuscany | |||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | |||
| - Archbishopric secularized | February 11, 1803 | |||
| - Raised to Electorate | April 27, 1803 | |||
| - Mediatised to Austria | December 26, 1805 | |||
The Electorate of Salzburg (German: 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.
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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 divided between Austria and Bavaria 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.
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