First Kappel War
View from the south of Kappel am Albis
| date | 1529 |
|---|---|
| place | Kappel am Albis |
| output | compensation |
| consequences | " Kappeler Milk Soup " |
| Peace treaty | First land peace in Kappel on June 26, 1529 |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
The First Kappel War was a conflict between Reformed and Catholic places in Switzerland. It began in 1529, but ended without any actual fighting with a reconciliation meal, the " Kappeler Milchsuppe " near the town of Kappel am Albis .
Occasion and course
The starting point in the age of the Reformation was the rift between the old and new believers in the confederation .
The Zurich reformer Huldrych Zwingli allied himself in 1529 with the Protestant Constance to create Christian castle law . This alliance, under the leadership of Zurich, was directed primarily against Austria and secondarily against the Catholic inner cities of Lucerne , Uri , Schwyz , Unterwalden and Zug . As a countermeasure, the five inner towns founded the Christian Association with Austria in 1529 . At the center of the religious dispute were the prince abbey of St. Gallen and the common rulers, especially Thurgau . Zwingli wanted to pull the ground off the opposing alliance with a military blow and was looking for a reason for war. In May 1528 the people of Zurich had a Catholic soldier executed in Thurgau, and a year later the people of Schwyz burned the Reformed pastor Jakob Kaiser .
At first, in June 1529 tried Zurich and Bern the inauguration of a Unterwaldner bailiff in the outside offices to avoid. On June 6th, the people of Zurich occupied the bridgeheads Bremgarten and Mellingen as well as parts of the Thurgau and the St. Gallen landscape. They marched with the main force at Kappel am Albis ; Bernese troops followed them. The neutral locations began to mediate on June 7th. However, on June 9, Zurich declared war on the five Old Believers.
The mediation under the Glarner Landammann Hans Aebli prevented a bloody argument. The first land peace in Kappel was concluded without a fight . It was agreed that each congregation could adopt the old or new faith by majority vote ( parity ). The peace was sealed by a reconciliation meal, the Kappeler milk soup.
However, the conflict broke out again in 1531 with the Second Kappel War .
Chapel song
In the camp of the Zurich to Zwingli Lord, now flee the car selb for Kappeler song become his.
literature
- Christian Bäder, Oliver Bangerter: Kappeler Wars 1529/1531 . Struggle for supremacy and sovereignty, for the word and true faith. Documentation. In: Military history at your fingertips . 3. Edition. tape 11 . Milak / ETH-Z (Military Academy at the ETH Zurich ), Au bei Wädenswil ZH 2003.
- Martin Haas: Zwingli and the First Kappel War . Zurich 1965.
Web links
- Helmut Meyer: 1st Kappel War. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinzpeter Stucki: Christian Association. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Wolfgang Rothfahl: 242 - Lord, now stop the car yourself . In: Wolfgang Herbst , Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 15 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-50339-3 , p. 14–20 ( limited preview in Google Book search).