Prättigau uprising
The Prättigauer uprising (also Prättigauer war ) refers to the attempted eviction of the Habsburg 1621/22 from the Grisons Prättigau during the Grison turmoil .
background
The armed conflicts between the coalitions France-Venice and Spain-Austria over what is now the canton of Graubünden as part of the Thirty Years' War are called Bündner Wirren . It mainly concerned the control of the Graubünden Alpine passes and the religious order in Graubünden. The conflict over Graubünden at times threatened to drag the Swiss Confederation into the Thirty Years' War.
history
The Prättigau and the Montafon were jointly under the rule of the Habsburgs from 1477 to 1649.
crew
In 1619 - shortly after the beginning of the Thirty Years' War - Austria tried to get hold of the Graubündner Passes as important military north-south connections. The passes from the Montafon to the Engadin and the Prättigau were occupied by soldiers and an embargo was imposed over the entire Protestant area. In autumn 1621 Graubünden was attacked with strong forces from several sides and also conquered.
Counter-reformation
In January 1622 a peace treaty was concluded and the Habsburgs implemented a violent Counter-Reformation, in which the Capuchin Father Fidelis von Sigmaringen was in charge. Since Alois Baldiron , commander-in-chief of the Spanish-Habsburg troops, wanted to forbid the practice of the Reformed faith in April 1622 and wanted to force the locals to attend Catholic services, the Prättigau uprising took place in the same year, in which Rudolf von Salis and Jörg Jenatsch led the Austrians were expelled.
revolt
Just a few weeks later - on Palm Sunday, April 14, 1622 ( old style ) - there was a revolt of the Prättigau people. Within a few days, the rebels drove out the occupation troops and murdered the Capuchin Father Fidelis, who they hated in Seewis .
After the liberation of their valley, the euphoric fighters attacked the neighboring Catholic Montafon on July 4th and advanced to Vandans . They had an easy game with the Montafon people scattered on the Maize Passes and thus robbed hundreds of head of cattle without significant resistance, plundered the houses and extorted 12,000 guilders as well as the vow that the Montafon people would no longer fight the Graubünden in this war.
Vorarlberg was heavily burdened by the military mobilization, especially by the billeting and marching of troops, and the population suffered from attacks by soldiers, from famines and the epidemics usually associated with them.
Setback
At the end of August, the Habsburgs struck a final blow against the insurgents.
In September 1622, Commander-in-Chief Baldiron returned with a regiment of 10,000 men and again conquered the Lower Engadine, Davos and the Prättigau from the Münstertal in a second bloody campaign. Numerous villages were reduced to rubble.
After the Lindau Treaty with Archduke Leopold of Austria was concluded on September 30, 1622, Graubünden had to cede the Münstertal, the Lower Engadine and the Prättigau.
The following winter went down in Graubünden history as a special hunger winter .
In all of Graubünden, the Catholic Church was to get back all rights and possessions that it had held before 1526. As a result, numerous villages were brought back to Catholicism and Protestant pastors had to leave Bünden. Capuchin mission stations built in the valleys, and numerous monasteries and churches were built.
Individual evidence
- ↑ slain in Seewis ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Dominican Sisters of St. Peter in Bludenz - Often a new beginning, unbelievable incidents, ups and downs
- ↑ Vorarlberg Chronicle - Vorarlberg at the time of the Thirty Years' War ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Swiss history: Reformation and Counter-Reformation - The Bündner Wirren
