Peace of Nijmegen
The Peace of Nijmegen includes several peace treaties that were concluded in Nijmegen (Nijmegen) in 1678/1679 and ended the Franco-Dutch war and the wars connected with it.
The contract
First, France and the United Netherlands signed a peace treaty. Because the Netherlands withdrew from the coalition against France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire came under pressure and had to follow suit with their peace agreements. This is how a series of contracts came about:
- August 10, 1678, between France and the Netherlands.
- September 17, 1678, between France and Spain .
- February 5, 1679, between France and Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire .
- March 19, 1679, between Sweden and Munster .
- October 2, 1679, between Sweden and the United Provinces
The contracts provided for:
- That the Netherlands got back French-occupied territories for the promise of their neutrality towards France and Sweden.
- Border straightening in Flanders and return of six cities in the Spanish Netherlands that had captured French troops to Spain: Limbourg , Charleroi , Ath , Oudenaarde , Kortrijk and Gent .
- Assignment of Freiburg and Kehl and the Duchy of Bouillon to France. The German vernacular soon spoke of the "Peace of Nimmweg". Return of the Philippsburg, which fell to France in 1648, to the Holy Roman Empire.
- Return of the French-occupied Lorraine since 1670 to the rightful Duke Charles, with the exception of the capital Nancy . Since the duke did not want to accept the terms of the treaty, France kept the duchy occupied until 1697.
- Assignments by Spain, in addition to areas in the heartland, also the Free County of Burgundy . As a result, partial revision of the First Peace of Aachen .
- Withdrawal of Münster troops who fought for Denmark in the Skåne War .
- That France's claims to ownership of the islands of St. Vincent , St. Lucia and Dominica have been confirmed.
Meaning and consequences
The peace treaty documents the power of the Sun King , but was partially revised by the Peace of Rijswijk after the War of the Palatinate Succession in 1697 . Due to the peace between the empire and Sweden, the Scandinavian War turned at the expense of Denmark and Brandenburg-Prussia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German translation in Theatrum Europaeum, Volume 11, 1672–1679, pp. 1235–1236
- ↑ Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 153.