Dachstein War

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The Dachstein War (1419–1422) was a conflict between the city of Strasbourg and the Strasbourg city and country nobility.

In 1419, the political and social tensions in Strasbourg between the guilds and the noble patriciate ( Constofler ) increased so much that resolutions of the citizens against the nobility and a feud between the city and Wilhelm II of Diest († 1439) the Strasbourger came about Bishop (1394–1439) grew out of the Dachstein War, named after a castle from which the nobility attacked the city. A resolution of the Strasbourg city ​​council of April 28, 1419 demanded the acquisition of citizenship by the members of the patrician families, the nobles had to take an oath of allegiance to the council, and a patrician was only allowed to belong to the council or the aldermen's college if he was in Strasbourg lived. A large part of the patriciate then left the city and allied with the landed gentry and the Strasbourg archbishop. The spokesman for the aristocratic alliance was Burchard von Müllenheim , whose negotiations with the city council, which were still held in 1419, were unsuccessful.

During the war, the city of Strasbourg saw itself in the renewal of an old union supported by other cities in the area ( Basel , Colmar , Freiburg , Mulhouse , Schlettstadt, etc.). In April 1422 it came under arbitration by the Archbishop of Mainz , Konrad III. von Dhaun , Margrave Bernhard I von Baden and Johannes Blumstein as representatives of the city of Strasbourg on peace, which - issued as a compromise - largely restricted the rights of the Strasbourg patriciate. Instead of 28, there were now only 14 patrician councilors facing the 28 guild councilors, the patricians also had to acquire citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance. The power position of the patrician families in the city, which had already been restricted before the Dachstein War, was thus further reduced, also evident in the decline in the number of Constoflers in the period that followed.

literature

  • Knut Schulz , Citizens' Freedom. Urban Society in the High and Late Middle Ages , Darmstadt 2008, p. 258ff.
  • G. Wiederkehr, La guerre de Dachstein (1419–1422) , Strasbourg 1975.