Peace of Eilenburg
The Peace of Eilenburg is a peace treaty as a result of negotiations between Sweden and the Electorate of Saxony during the Thirty Years' War , which took place in Eilenburg from February 20th to early April 1646 (officially until March 31st) . It meant the end of the war for the Electorate of Saxony.
prehistory
Coming under pressure due to the military successes of the Swedes, Elector Johann Georg I concluded a provisional armistice agreement with the Swedish general Lennart Torstensson in Kötzschenbroda on September 6, 1645 . According to the regulations, the Electoral Saxon army had to refrain from any fighting for six months. At the same time, monthly contributions of 11,000 thalers had to be paid. The Swedish occupiers stayed in Torgau and Leipzig and had the right to march freely throughout Saxony with the exception of a three-mile cordon around Dresden .
negotiations
Shortly before the end of the Kötzschenbroda armistice, negotiations began on February 20, 1646 for a final armistice for Saxony in Eilenburg. While the Swedish negotiating delegation, led by Axel Lillie, moved into the Zum Schwarzen Adler inn , the Saxon envoys stayed at the Zum Roten Hirsch inn . The negotiating partners had each come with an escort of 200 men who occupied the respective half of the city as far as the market square, where the negotiations were held in the town hall . The peace treaty was signed at the beginning of April, but it was dated back to March 31, 1646 as a symbol of the unconditional desire for a final peace treaty, since April was "such an unstable month".
effect
The Peace of Eilenburg extended the Treaty of Kötzschenbroda and was "valid until a general peace agreement or until a general army", thus de facto represented the end of the war for Saxony. The elector wanted a quick general peace treaty to get the country out of the to get rid of expensive Swedish occupation. Although the amount of the monthly contributions could be reduced to 8000 thalers, under these circumstances a recovery of the war-torn country was impossible.
The long-awaited universal peace agreement followed in October 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia . In 1650 the Swedes withdrew from Saxony and reconstruction could begin in the affected areas, especially in the west of the electorate.
literature
- Friedemann Needy : The Thirty Years War. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-89678-287-8 .
- The Saxon-Swedish negotiations at Kötzschenbroda and Eilenburg in 1645 and 1646. In: Archives for the Saxon History , Volume 5, 1866/67, pages 264-288
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Johannes Burkhardt : Peace Deals in Saxon in: Heinz Durchardt , Martin Espenhorst (Ed.): Translating Peace in the Premodern: Translation Services in Diplomacy, Media and Science , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2012, ISBN 9783525101148 , page 60