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1652 - Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg (library) founded. 1668 - Cathedral rebuilt. [5] 1674 - Maria Plain church consecrated near Salzburg. [5]
Salzburg [a] is the fourth-largest city in Austria.In 2020 its population was 156,852. [7]The town occupies the site of the Roman settlement of Iuvavum.Founded as an episcopal see in 696, it became a seat of the archbishop in 798.
The Salzburger Emigrants were a group of German-speaking Protestant refugees from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg (now in present-day Austria) that immigrated to the Georgia Colony in 1734 to escape religious persecution. This group was expelled from their homeland by Count Leopold Anton von Firmian (1679–1744), Prince-Archbishop of
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18th century map of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg. The prince-archbishopric's territory was roughly congruent with the present-day Austrian state of Salzburg.It stretched along the Salzach river from the High Tauern range—Mt. Großvenediger at 3,666 m (12,028 ft)—at the main chain of the Alps in the south down to the Alpine foothills in the north.
Dedicated to Saint Blaise, Admont Abbey was founded in 1074 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg with the legacy of the late Saint Hemma of Gurk, [1] and settled by monks from St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg under abbot Isingrin. The second abbot, Giselbert, is said to have introduced the Cluniac reforms here.
The Salzburg Protestants (German: Salzburger Exulanten) were Protestant refugees who had lived in the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg until the 18th century. In a series of persecutions ending in 1731, over 20,000 Protestants were expelled from their homeland by the Prince-Archbishops .
Salzburg's Jewish community never fully recovered from those years. Today, it consists of about 100 members. The synagogue was re-opened after the war and is still the center of Jewish culture and worship in Salzburg. In 1953 a community was reestablished, and in 1968 the newly rebuilt synagogue was rededicated. [1]