Peace of Saint Germain (1679)
The Peace of Saint-Germain ended the Swedish-Brandenburg War . In the treaty of June 29, 1679 between France, Sweden and Brandenburg, the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm Vorpommern had to cede to Sweden again because his allies, the Netherlands and the emperor did not support him and he was alone with Denmark facing the overpowering France . Disappointed by this behavior, he now joined France closely and committed himself in a secret treaty dated October 25, 1679 to give Louis XIV his vote in a new emperor election. Brandenburg reaffirmed the peace of Nijmegen .
With the peace treaty, the Great Elector only acquired a small strip of land east of the Oder with the places Kammin , Greifenhagen and Bahn , but he was not allowed to build fortifications there. The loss of the port cities of Stralsund and Stettin as well as the island of Rügen was painful , because Brandenburg's plans to increase engagement in overseas trade were impaired by the less favorable access to the Baltic Sea . The Swedes waived their share of the Kolberg customs in favor of Brandenburg ; France paid 300,000 thalers to the Great Elector for Sweden.
When signing the contract in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Friedrich Wilhelm is said to have said: “ Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor! ”(German:“ Avenger, you will one day see me out of my bones! ”).
See also
literature
- Ernst Opgenorth: Friedrich Wilhelm. The Great Elector of Brandenburg. A political biography. Volume 2: 1660-1688. Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1978, ISBN 3-7881-1687-0 , p. 194.