So, I've been working on a TL where Napoleon doesn't rise/dies in his attempted coup. The effects are a Holy Roman Empire that survives up until the 1848 Revolutions. The 1848 Revolutions see an utter collapse of the HRE, but consolidation among the smallest states into larger states. (Not a unified Germany, but just larger kingdoms)
Either way, what does Austria do? How do the Habsburg Holdings react to such a collapse? Would the Habsburgs position themselves/Austria as the successor state of the HRE like IOTL, or proclaim something completely different?