THE LOCALS
Artists, composers, guides, hoteliers, chefs, makers, and founders with a real connection to the city.
A magnet more than a cradle: most of these figures were born elsewhere and came to Salzburg. Every pin is a birthplace.
The archbishop who gave Salzburg its baroque face. Johann Ernst von Thun (1687-1709) was the great patron behind the city's high baroque building campaign, the man who gave Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach his most…
The archbishop who held the line before the revolution. Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasy's 26-year archiepiscopate (1560-1586) was shaped by the pressures of the Counter-Reformation: maintaining Catholic authority while…
The archbishop who built the Romanesque Salzburg Cathedral that stood for over four centuries. Konrad I oversaw an ambitious rebuilding of the cathedral on a grand scale during his long archiepiscopate (1106-1147),…
Leonhard von Keutschach ruled Salzburg from 1495 to 1519 and turned Hohensalzburg Fortress from a military stronghold into one of the best-preserved Gothic palace complexes north of the Alps. The lavish interiors…
The archbishop who expelled the Protestants. In October 1731, Firmian issued the Emigrationspatent, ordering the roughly 20,000 Protestant inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Salzburg State to convert or leave.…
Markus Sittikus was Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1612 to 1619. A cousin of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, he deposed his predecessor with Bavarian military support and then spent his seven-year reign building.…
A cardinal, an imperial chancellor, and one of the most powerful men in the Holy Roman Empire before he ever became Archbishop of Salzburg. Matthäus Lang served as chief secretary and chancellor to Emperor Maximilian…
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…
Paris Lodron ruled Salzburg for 34 years during the Thirty Years' War and kept the city untouched while the rest of Central Europe burned. He founded the university, consecrated the cathedral, and built the walls that…
Mozart's first employer, and the benevolent one. Archbishop Schrattenbach (1753-1771) allowed Leopold Mozart repeated and extended leaves of absence for the family's European concert tours, effectively subsidising the…
An archbishop who was also a sculptor. Before his elevation, Thiemo was a gifted craftsman at Stift St. Peter, producing metalwork, ivory carvings, and altar pieces of exceptional quality. The combination of artistic…
Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau ruled Salzburg from 1587 to 1611 and transformed it from a medieval city into a baroque capital. The streets, squares, and palaces visitors walk through today are, in large part, the city he…
