Peace of Stockholm (1720)

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Treaties during the Great Northern War (1699–1721).

The peace of Stockholm of January 21st jul. / February 1, 1720 greg. was a partial peace in the Great Northern War . He ended the war between Prussia and Sweden . Prussia received Stettin , Western Pomerania to the Peene and the islands of Usedom and Wollin in exchange for two million thalers . These areas had been under Prussian occupation since 1713 - with an interruption in 1715 for Usedom. For Prussia, this peace meant a further step towards becoming a major German power , while for Sweden it was another setback. Sweden's loss of power on the Baltic Sea continued. To commemorate the acquisition of Szczecin and southern Western Pomerania, Friedrich Wilhelm I had a Latin inscription, not entirely ironic, affixed to the newly built Berliner Tor in Stettin, according to which he called the "Duchy of Stettin ... by lawful contracts and for a reasonable price up to to the Peene bought, acquired and regained for himself ”.

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The inscription on the Berliner Tor in Szczecin still commemorates the acquisition of the city by Friedrich Wilhelm I.

literature

  • Victor Loewe: Prussian State Treaties from the reign of King Friedrich Wilhelm I (publications from the Prussian State Archives. Vol. 87) , Leipzig 1913, No. 57, pp. 226–243 (edition of the treaty of January 21 / February 1, 1720 ).
  • Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th century to 1914. Volume 1: From the beginning to 1740 . 2nd supplemented edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1967, p. 641.
  • Karl Ploetz : Extract from the story . 27th edition, Ploetz-Verlag, Würzburg 1968, p. 918.
  • Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann : Prussia, neutrality, and the acquisition of Stettin, in: 'Princess Hedvig Sofia' and the Great Northern War , ed. By Ralf Bleile, Joachim Krüger, Dresden 2015, pp. 180–185.
  • Dirk Schleinert : "So that everyone can enjoy Justice ... unchanged." The integration of Old Western Pomerania in Prussia , in: Nils Jörn, Dirk Schleinert (ed.), Vom Löwen zum Adler. The transition from Swedish Pomerania to Prussia 1815 (publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V: Research on Pomeranian History, Vol. 52), Cologne 2019, pp. 126-148.

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Older text edition by Johann Carl Dähnert in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Digital Library