Hieronymus von Colloredo ruled Salzburg from 1772 until Napoleon's forces effectively ended the prince-archbishopric in 1803. An ardent Josephinist, he imposed sweeping ecclesiastical reforms that made him genuinely despised by much of his subjects — and earned him the lasting enmity of one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who served under him and was famously dismissed, by his own account, with a kick to the backside from Colloredo's chief steward in 1781.
These small copper pieces were struck during a period of fiscal pressure common to most of the smaller German ecclesiastical states in the late Imperial period. Colloredo fled Salzburg in 1800, never to return.
Hieronymus von Colloredo ruled Salzburg from 1772 until Napoleon's forces effectively ended the prince-archbishopric in 1803. An ardent Josephinist, he imposed sweeping ecclesiastical reforms that made him genuinely despised by much of his subjects — and earned him the lasting enmity of one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who served under him and was famously dismissed, by his own account, with a kick to the backside from Colloredo's chief steward in 1781.
These small copper pieces were struck during a period of fiscal pressure common to most of the smaller German ecclesiastical states in the late Imperial period. Colloredo fled Salzburg in 1800, never to return.