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In 1805 Salzburg belonged to Austria for the first time |
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From 1803 to 1805, Salzburg was an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire of German nations which existed until 1806. When the peace treaty of Preßburg was concluded in 1805, Salzburg was incorporated into Austria. The independent state and the most important part of the electorate then became a land of a large empire. The first Austrian period ended in 1809 with a new declaration of war by the Austrian Empire on France. The victory of the French troops led by Napoleon left Salzburg under direct French administration for one and a half years. From 1810 to 1816, the area as far as the Leuken valley (Kitzbühel) again belonged to Bavaria as the Salzach district. During this period, the activities of the university were halted and in 1811 the regional assembly was dissolved. (It was not until 1816 and under entirely new conditions that a Salzburg parliament was elected again. It has been constituted for parliamentary meetings ever since, apart from a break in the period 1938 to 1945). Finally the Vienna Congress and the new shaping of Europe negotiated there brought the period of Bavarian rule in Salzburg to an end. |
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