The most beloved and unconventional Habsburg of the 19th century. Archduke Johann rejected court life in Vienna, turned to the Alps with passionate intensity, and eventually married the daughter of a postmaster in Bad Aussee. The Salzkammergut and the Styrian Alps were his domain.

The only son of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth. His death at Mayerling in January 1889, one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Habsburg era, accelerated the end of the world his father had built.

King of the Franks and first Holy Roman Emperor. His sponsorship of Arno of Salzburg led directly to Salzburg's elevation to an archdiocese in 798, transforming the city into the ecclesiastical capital of Central Europe.

Holy Roman Emperor during whose reign Salzburg Cathedral was consecrated in 1628. Archbishop Paris Lodron's success in keeping Salzburg neutral and unscathed throughout the Thirty Years' War (Ferdinand's defining conflict) is one of the remarkable diplomatic achievements of the era.

The emperor who made Salzburg Austrian. The last Holy Roman Emperor and first Emperor of Austria. Under his reign, the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) confirmed Salzburg's permanent incorporation into the Austrian Empire in 1816, a union that has lasted to the present day.

Emperor of Austria for 68 years, the longest-reigning Habsburg. He summered at the Kaiservilla for over six decades, transforming Bad Ischl into a glittering summer capital of the Empire. He signed the declaration of war against Serbia there on 28 July 1914, triggering the First World War.

Son of Empress Maria Theresia, Enlightenment reformer, and the emperor who commissioned Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and Le nozze di Figaro. Archbishop Colloredo was deeply aligned with his reformist ideology.

Holy Roman Emperor known as "the Last Knight." Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg served as his chief secretary and chancellor, making Salzburg's future archbishop one of the most powerful men in the Empire.

One of the most iconic figures in Austrian cultural memory. Emperor Franz Joseph I fell in love with her at Bad Ischl in August 1853 and proposed on the spot. She was assassinated in Geneva in 1898. The Sisi film trilogy with Romy Schneider cemented her global legend.

The greatest Habsburg ruler of the 18th century. In October 1762, the six-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Nannerl performed for her at Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, famously charming her entirely. The first royal patron of Mozart's genius.

The man who ended 1,200 years of the Prince-Archbishopric. Napoleon's armies occupied Salzburg in 1800 and 1809. The political consequences of the Napoleonic era erased Salzburg's status as an independent ecclesiastical state forever.