Bergstrasse recess

The Bergstrasse recess was a contract between the Electoral Palatinate and Kurmainz .

It was closed on September 24, 1650 between the Electors Karl Ludwig and Johann Philipp in Neuenhain . The recession ended a protracted dispute between the two electorates over territorial and denominational claims. Thereafter, the Catholic Kurmainz received the village Viernheim , the Vogtei Sulzbach and the Neuenhain office with the villages of Neuenhain, Altenhain , and Schneidhain . In return, the Protestant Electoral Palatinate received the village of Seckenheim and the office of Schauenburg with Handschuhsheim and Dossenheim . In addition, it was stated in the preliminaries that there were no more disputes about the Oberamt Starkenburg (including with Heppenheim ), so it belongs to Kurmainz. In each of the ceded territories, the other denomination received the right to freely practice religion, which resulted in the establishment of simultaneous churches .

The territorial claims established on the Upper Rhine , the Bergstrasse and in the Odenwald form the border between Baden-Württemberg and Hesse almost unchanged today .

literature

• Hansjörg Probst: Seckenheim: History of a village in the Electoral Palatinate . Mannheim 1981, ISBN 3-87804-101-2 .
• Armin Kohnle: Between Mainz and Palatinate: The Bergstrasse Recess of 1650 and the denominations . In: Irene Dingel , Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele (Eds.): Between conflict and cooperation: Religious communities in the city and archbishopric Mainz in the late Middle Ages and modern times . Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3595-4 .