Nuremberg Religious Peace
The Nuremberg Religious Peace , also called Nuremberg decency by contemporaries , was a peace agreement in which Emperor Charles V and the Protestants agreed for the first time (limited) on July 23, 1532 in Nuremberg a mutual legal and peace guarantee for the current denominational acquis .
The Protestant imperial estates were thus included in the imperial land peace for the first time . The Edict of Worms , which the Protestants had declared on the eight , was thus effectively canceled. The emperor agreed to discontinue all religious trials at the Imperial Court of Justice. The persecution of the Protestants was stopped and the Reformation was able to spread unhindered.
The decision of Emperor Charles V to conclude the Nuremberg Religious Peace is explained by the foreign policy situation of the Holy Roman Empire . In view of the occupation of Hungary by the Turks, Emperor Karl needed a free hand in the empire to avert the Turkish threat . The Protestant princes, who had formed the Schmalkaldic League in 1531 , were mainly concerned with safeguarding their political and economic interests, since they wanted to increase their power base by confiscating Catholic church property and building up their own regional church regiment.
See also
literature
- Report on the presumed formidable propriety to Nürenberg . Johannes Soter, Solingen 1543 ( digitized version )