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28-851: At the northwestern edge of Carinthia and bordering East Tyrol and the state of Salzburg state, Heiligenblut is located in a high valley of the High Tauern range within the Central Eastern Alps . It is situated at the foot of the Grossglockner , the highest mountain in Austria, and of the Pasterze Glacier . Neighbouring peaks include the Johannisberg and the Fuscherkarkopf in the north, both part of

56-634: A Danish knight called Briccius (Frederick, not to be confused with Saint Brice ), once in the service of Emperor Constantine VII . On his way home across the Alps, he was buried by an avalanche and in the face of death hid the relic in an open wound at his calf. His corpse was later found by local peasants at a place where three ears of wheat broke through the snow—as rendered in the Heiligenblut coat of arms. The Gothic pilgrimage church dedicated to Saint Vincent of Saragossa , with its prominent spire,

84-493: A common municipality with about 12,000 inhabitants, is known as 'Austria's largest village'. Salt mining has played an important role in the region's development; Salzburg means "salt city". Independence from Bavaria was secured in the late 14th century. The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an independent prince-bishopric and State of the Holy Roman Empire until German Mediatisation in 1803. The territory

112-597: Is an Austrian federal state . In German it is called a Bundesland , a German-to-English dictionary translates that to federal state and the European Commission calls it a province . In German, its official name is Land Salzburg , to distinguish it from its eponymous capital Salzburg . For centuries, it was an independent Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire . It borders Germany and Italy. Salzburg State covers an area of 7,156 km (2,763 sq mi). It stretches along its main river —

140-554: Is an exclave of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol , separated from North Tyrol by parts of Salzburg State and parts of Italian South Tyrol ( Südtirol , Italian : Alto Adige ). It is coterminous with the administrative district ( Bezirk ) of Lienz . The area around the former Roman municipium of Aguntum was, from the 12th century, held by the Counts of Gorizia , who took their residence at Lienz and inherited

168-673: Is elected by a majority in the provincial parliament Landtag . Provincial elections are held every five years. After World War II , most provincial governments were led by the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). ÖVP politician Josef Klaus (1910-2001), later chancellor of Austria , served as governor of Salzburg from 1949 till 1961. In 2004 Gabi Burgstaller became the first Social Democratic (and first female) governor of Salzburg. The last results, in April 2023 (Compared to 2018 ) were: The current governor of Salzburg, Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP), entered into coalition discussions with

196-760: Is filled with water during the summer but serves as a railway tunnel leading to the Fleißalm winter sports region in winter. A chapel at Heiligenblut in the Duchy of Carinthia was first mentioned in 1271, containing a relic of the Blood of Christ . According to legend, a flask of the Holy Blood, which is today kept in a sacrament house , was brought here in 914 AD from the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople by

224-418: Is its own administrative district. The federal state is divided into 119 municipalities, including Salzburg City . 11 of them have city status ( Städte ), 25 are market towns ( Marktgemeinden ) and the other 83 are simple municipalities ( Gemeinden ). Below is a list of all the municipalities divided by district: The federal state's gross domestic product (GDP) was 29 billion € in 2018, accounting for 7.5% of

252-647: The Alpine divide marking the Carinthia-Salzburg border. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Apriach, Rojach, and Zlapp und Hof. The municipality is also the southern starting point of the scenic Grossglockner High Alpine Road to Bruck in the state of Salzburg, the former Hochtor Pass, today the continuation of the B107 highway from Lienz in East Tyrol. Nearby attractions include

280-729: The County of Tyrol in 1253. While Tyrol was lost to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1363, the Gorizian counts retained Lienz until the extinction of the line in 1500. Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg finally incorporated it into Austrian Tyrol. East Tyrol's present-day situation arose from the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I and its subsequent dissolution. By the 1915 Treaty of London ,

308-641: The Duchy of Salzburg was established as a crown land of the Austrian Empire and, after 1866, Austria-Hungary . Salzburg participated in World War I , as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 49,000 Salzburgers were called to arms, of whom 6,000 were killed. In 1918 after World War I , the Duchy of Salzburg was dissolved and replaced with the State of Salzburg , as a component part initially of German Austria and subsequently of

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336-568: The First Republic of Austria , the separate state which was mandated by the Allied powers . As a result of Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, Austria, including Salzburg State, was incorporated into Nazi Germany . After the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Allies occupied the territory of Austria, being recognized as an independent territory under their rule. Salzburg State

364-687: The Kingdom of Italy , which had joined the victorious Triple Entente , was to obtain the Tyrolean lands south of the Brenner Pass , as claimed by the Italian irredentism movement. In November 1918, the Italian Army occupied all Tyrol with 20,000-22,000 soldiers. Thus, under the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , the rump state of German Austria had to cede to Italy the southern part of

392-747: The Late Bronze Age . In 1834 Archduke John of Austria had a first mountain hut built beneath the pass, and a driveway was constructed from 1875. The opening of the Grossglockner Road in 1935 decisively promoted the economy of Heiligenblut as a tourism and mountaineering resort. Seats in the municipal assembly ( Gemeinderat ) as of 2015 local elections: Heiligenblut is twinned with: Kaufmann, J.: Örtliche Entwicklung und Ortsbild der Gemeinde Heiligenblut am Großglockner (master's thesis), Vienna, 1984. East Tyrol East Tyrol , occasionally East Tirol ( German : Osttirol ),

420-510: The Salzach – which rises in the Central Eastern Alps in the south to the Alpine foothills in the north. It is located in the north-west of Austria, close to the border with the German state of Bavaria ; to the northeast lies the federal state Upper Austria ; to the east the federal state Styria ; to the south the federal states Carinthia and Tyrol . With 561,714 inhabitants, it is one of

448-650: The Austria's economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 46,500 € or 154% of the EU27 average in the same year. Salzburg is the federal state with the highest GDP per capita in Austria before Vienna. The Salzburg Cathedral was the first Baroque building in the German-speaking artistic world. Two other important buildings initiated by the Salzburg archbishops were Hohenwerfen Castle and Hohensalzburg Fortress . The first Archbishop of Salzburg

476-724: The FPÖ, after his proposition of a ÖVP-FPÖ-SPÖ coalition was rejected by the Social Democrats. Haslauer said "I regret that we could not implement the Alliance for Salzburg". After successful coalition negotiations, the ÖVP and the FPÖ entered into a governing coalition with Haslauer as the Governor and Marlene Svazek as the First Deputy Governor. [1] Salzburg State has joined Lower Austria and Upper Austria as

504-802: The Heiligenblut-Roßbach-Schareck cable car up to 2,606 m (8,550 ft), an open-air museum, the Stockmühlen mills in Apriach with nine flume mills, Lake Kachelsee to the west, the Möll, Gößnitz and Leiter waterfalls, the Margaritzen reservoir, and Lake Sandersee. The construction of the nearby railway tunnel to the Fleißalm mountain area at 1,798 m (5,899 ft) is unique in Europe. The 1.6 km-long (1-mile) tunnel

532-663: The Salzburg Pinzgau region. The High Tauern National Park is in East Tyrol, along with several mountains including the Großglockner (Austria's highest mountain, 3798 m), and Großvenediger . 46°54′N 12°36′E  /  46.9°N 12.6°E  / 46.9; 12.6 Salzburg (federal state) Salzburg ( Austrian German: [ˈsaltsbʊrɡ] , Northern German: [ˈzaltsbʊʁk] ; Austro-Bavarian : Soizbuag , also known as Salzburgerland ; Italian : Salisburghese )

560-780: The country's smaller federal states in terms of population. Running through the south are the main ranges of the Alpine divide (incl. the Hohe Tauern mountains) with numerous three-thousanders . The Dachstein massif and the Berchtesgaden Alps ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps border Salzburg State to the east and north. The federal state is traditionally subdivided in five major regions ( Gaue ), congruent with its political districts ( Bezirke , see administrative divisions ). Salzburg municipalities with town privileges : Wals-Siezenheim ,

588-466: The federal state was handed over to Bavaria in 1810. In 1816, following the defeat of Napoleon and the provision of adequate compensation to Bavaria at the Congress of Vienna , it was returned to Austria with the exception of the north-western Rupertiwinkel which remained Bavarian. The Salzburger Land was administered as the department of Salzach from Linz , the capital of Upper Austria . In 1849

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616-528: The federal states of Carinthia in the east and Salzburg in the north, while it also shares borders with the Italian provinces of South Tyrol (Alto Adige, northern part of the region Trentino-Alto Adige ) in the west and Belluno (the region Veneto ) in the south. It is separated from the Tyrolean district of Schwaz in North Tyrol by a 9.5 km (5.9 mi) long common border of South Tyrol with

644-662: The former crown land of the Princely County of Tyrol , i.e. the present-day provinces of Trentino and South Tyrol and parts of the Belluno province. After Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, East Tyrol became part of the Reichsgau Kärnten (Carinthia). It was returned to Tyrol in 1947. After World War II, East Tyrol became part of the British occupied zone of Austria. In Austria, East Tyrol borders

672-402: The third black-blue coalition provincial government. The ÖVP has four seats in the government, while the FPÖ has three. The current president (speaker) of the Salzburg federal state parliament is Brigitta Pallauf . Government ministers and their portfolios from the 2023 provincial election . Salzburg State comprises six districts, known as Bezirke or vernacularly Gaue : Salzburg city

700-562: Was Arno of Salzburg (785–821), in whose honor the world-famous hiking circuit — the Arnoweg — is named. The predominant stylistic elements of Salzburg's architecture have their origins in the Baroque and the Rococo periods. Salzburg City's historic centre was named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site . Austrian German is the local written language, and it can be heard especially in

728-622: Was built between 1460 and 1491. The church also houses a late-Gothic winged altarpiece from 1520, and a crypt and tomb containing Briccius' mortal remains. A transhumance agricultural as well as a gold mining from ancient history to the Middle Ages, Heiligenblut was a stop on the bridle path and later Roman road leading to the Hochtor Pass across the Alps, probably already in use during the Hallstatt culture which followed on from

756-544: Was occupied by the United States. In 1955, Austria was again declared an independent state and Salzburg was once again one of the reconstituted federal states of the Second Republic of Austria. The historical population is given in the following chart: Salzburg adopted its current provincial constitution in 1999. The provincial government ( Landesregierung ) is headed by a governor ( Landeshauptmann ), who

784-593: Was secularized and, as the Electorate of Salzburg , given as compensation to Ferdinand III , former Grand Duke of Tuscany , the brother of Emperor Francis II . Following the Austrian defeat at Austerlitz in 1805, Salzburg was annexed by Austria as compensation for the loss of Tyrol to the Kingdom of Bavaria , and Ferdinand was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg . After Austria's defeat in 1809,

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