 In 1559 the provosts were elevated to the rank of a Prince of the Empire in chief of the small lordship.The full style of the office became "Fürst, Propst und Herr zu Berchtesgaden".In the course of the German Mediatisation in 1803, the Berchtesgaden Provostry was annexed by the Electorate of Salzburg, it finally fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810.