Peace of Traventhal

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The Peace of Traventhal became Swedish on August 8th / 18th. August 1700 greg. at Traventhal Castle in Holstein , a former residence of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön , concluded as a separate peace between Denmark and Sweden .

prehistory

Denmark used the attack by Saxony-Poland and Russia on Swedish Livonia to invade Schleswig-Holstein at the beginning of the Great Northern War . When Sweden turned against Denmark and Braunschweig, Kurhannover and the Netherlands supported the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf militarily as guarantor powers of the Altona settlement , Sweden's King Karl XII forced . its on Zealand penetrated and Copenhagen threatening forces of King Frederick IV. the peace of travendal, a Holstein official residence and hunting lodge near Segeberg . The anti-Swedish coalition in the Great Northern War thus lost Denmark as its partner.

Content of the contract

Hunting lodge in Traventhal, place of the negotiation
  • Art. 1: Mutual amnesty for all involved.
  • Art. 2: Confirmation of previous contracts (1533, 1623, 1658, 1660, 1679, 1689, 1697).
  • Art. 3: Continuation of the previous joint government of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and the conditions for it.
  • Art. 4: Equality of the two parts of the country, also for their rulers.
  • Art. 5: National defense in the event of a common threat. National defense when a part of the country is threatened. Right of defense. Right of attachment. Limiting the number of Danish soldiers. Troop stationing and marching through.
  • Art. 6: Execution of the Altona settlement within 6 weeks.
  • Art. 7: Compliance with the Glückstadt Recess .
  • Art. 8: Compliance with the Glückstadt Recess with regard to the Lübeck Cathedral Chapter .
  • Art. 9: Payment of 260,000 Reichstalers from Denmark to Gottorf and its modalities.
  • Art. 10: Exchange of places that have caused differences.
  • Art. 11: Exemption of the Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf merchants in the Tondern office from royal customs.
  • Art. 12: Grinding of the ski jump on Grevenhoff Island in front of the Port of Hamburg.
  • Art. 13: Inclusion of the guarantors of the Altona settlement in the contract. No attack by Denmark on Sweden or the Hanoverian territories. None against these alliances.
  • Art. 14: Kaiser and the other guarantors of the Altona settlement should also guarantee this contract.
  • Art. 15: ratifications within seven days.

The contract was signed by Johann Hugo von Lente and Christoph von Blome on the Danish side, as well as Magnus von Wedderkop and his brother-in-law Johann Ludwig von Pincier , Freiherr von Königstein, on the side of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .

See also

literature

  • Werner Neugebauer : Nice Holstein. A guide through the country between the Elbe and Fehmarnbelt. Verlag Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck 1957, p. 347 ff.
  • Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions. Husum Printing and Publishing Society, Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-462-4 .

Web links

Wikisource: Travendahlian Peace  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Also Schrevenhof , today part of Steinwerder , the Grevenhof Canal still reminds of it