The War of the Bavarian Succession was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after the extinction of the B
Friedrich der Grosse und der Feldscher
Max Joseph, prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria
Charles IV Theodore
Archduke Joseph (portrait by Georg Decker)
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The Innviertel is a traditional Austrian region southeast of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavaria. The Innviertel is one of th
War of the Bavarian Succession
…of Maria Theresa (19 May 1779). In the Treaty of Teschen (May 1779), Maria Theresa returned Lower Bavaria to Charles Theodore, but kept the so-called Innviertel, a 2,200-square-kilometer (850 mi2) strip of land in the drainage basin of the Inn river. She and Joseph were surprised to find that the small territory…
Landscape around Maria Schmolln
Baroque "Silberzeile" in Schärding
Town houses in the Inn-Salzach Style, in Ried im Innkreis