Frankfurt decency
In the so-called Frankfurt decency of 1539, the Nuremberg decency of 1532 was affirmed, which was supposed to secure the status quo between Protestants and Catholics in the empire.
Due to a threatened Protestant anti- Habsburg coalition of the Schmalkaldic League with Denmark and France , Emperor Charles V decided to adopt a more conciliatory religious policy and signed the Frankfurt decency on April 19, 1539. This provisional religious peace, initially planned for six months, ended the trials against Protestants at the Reich Chamber of Commerce , who were accused of secularizing church property. Under the condition that no further church property should be secularized and no new members were accepted into the Schmalkaldic League, the emperor promised not to accept any new members into the Catholic Nuremberg League . In addition, a religious talk was agreed between the theologians and lay people of the Catholic and Protestant denominations, which took place in the Hagenau Religious Talk in 1540 .