The cathedral rises over the ergrabenen remainders of one already 774 by the holy Virgil geweihten bishop church. This dreischiffige Basilika of the early Middle Ages had experienced numerous around and removals in the Romanesque, before they respect 1598 that altogether (!) fire of their history finally to the victim fell. After several futile re-establishment attempts archbishop wolf Dietrich (1587-1612) let the destroyed building clear away. He assigned the upper-Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi drafts for a comprehensive new building. But it remained reserving Dietrich's successor Markus Sittikus (1612-19) to put to 1614 the foundation-stone for the new direction of its cathedral. This was specified up to the Weihe in the year 1628 by its yard and most Santino Solari, which had fundamentally changed the plans Scamozzis. Solari created a new building, in which Roman traditions with influences of its upper-Italian homeland mix. The Salzburger cathedral should as in former times import of Italian-baroque forms indicatively for numerous nordalpine Sakralbauten 17. Century become.