Archbishop
11 November 1622, Schloss Gandegg, South Tyrol - 3 May 1687, Salzburg
Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 to 1687. A Counter-Reformation hardliner who in 1684 ordered the expulsion of the Protestants of the Defereggen Valley, then part of Salzburg’s territory in East Tyrol, one of the harsher archiepiscopal expulsions of its kind in the German-speaking world.
He commissioned the Kajetanerkirche (Church of St. Cajetan) in the Altstadt, built by the Theatine order. As a patron of music, he employed two of the finest composers of the era: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Georg Muffat, both of whom produced some of their greatest works during his archiepiscopate.
On the map
The 4 places on this page, where they actually stand.
Locations
Built 1685-1697
A Baroque church on Kajetanerplatz in the Nonntal district, built 1685-1697 for the Theatine Order by Giovanni Gaspare Zuccalli. The last Italian-designed church in Salzburg, closing one architectural era and opening the door to Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.
Cornerstone 1633, church completed 1646
A small Baroque pilgrimage church on the right bank, founded in 1633 when Capuchin nuns fled Landshut during the Thirty Years' War. Archbishop Paris Lodron granted the site. The church was completed in 1646 and contains a replica of the Santa Casa from Loreto, Italy, and a 17th-century jewelled Madonna doll that remains an object of local veneration.
Baroque
The official palace and seat of power of the Prince-Archbishops for over 200 years. Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau rebuilt it in grand baroque style. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performed for the Archbishop in these very rooms. Troger's frescoes look down from the state rooms. Today the Prunkraume and Residenzgalerie are open to visitors. Directly on Residenzplatz.
Consecrated 1628
The first baroque cathedral built in the German-speaking world, and the dominant church at the heart of Salzburg's Altstadt. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptised here on 28 January 1756. The site has held a cathedral since 774, when Saint Virgil of Salzburg consecrated the first one.
