Traditional recession
The traditional recession is a separate appendix to the Prague Peace Agreement , which was agreed in 1635 between Emperor Ferdinand II and the Elector of Saxony , Johann Georg I. The recess regulated the handover (lat. Traditio) of the margravates of Upper and Lower Lusatia to the elector. This was on July 14th . / April 24, 1636 greg. completed in Görlitz .
The two Lausitzes were until then part of the lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Habsburgs . As early as 1623 the emperor had to give the Lausitz to the elector as a pledge because he could not pay the costs of the military assistance provided in the years 1619/20 in accordance with the contract. In 1635 the emperor got rid of his guilt by handing the Lausitz to Johann Georg I as a hereditary fiefdom - against the promise that the constitution of the margraviate should continue unchanged. There was also a clause stating that the denominational relationships should also remain at the 1618 level. This means that the Protestant elector was not allowed to secularize the remaining spiritual founders, and Lutheran teaching was not allowed to be introduced into the associated parishes either. The House of Habsburg reserved the patronage of the monasteries Neuzelle , Marienstern , Marienthal and the one in Lauban as well as the cathedral monastery in Bautzen . The bailiff could now be appointed by the elector alone, but the bailiff had to promise the estates that he would give them their old rights.
The traditional recession was the basis that the Upper Lusatia in particular remained a biconfessional area, while in Saxony proper, Lutheranism was the only permitted denomination. In addition, the treaty prevented the Lausitz from being incorporated into the Saxon Electoral State. They were connected to this only through personal union. The regulations of the recess remained valid until 1815, when Lower Lusatia and parts of Upper Lusatia had to be ceded to Prussia. For the part of Upper Lusatia that remained with Saxony, the recession was still in effect until the Saxon constitution of September 4, 1831, which abolished the special status of the margraviate.
See also : Erbländischer Taler / Münzgeschichte - The depiction of the Saxon elector in the electoral regalia on taler coins was objected to by the two Lausitzers, as the Saxon electors were only allowed to rule as margraves, not as electors.
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- ^ Samuel Grosser : Lusatian oddities ... , Leipzig / Bautzen 1714, part I, pp. 260–263 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Karlheinz Blaschke : Preserved unit - the Oberlausitz in 130 years of forced division ... . In Martin Schmidt: Collecting - Exploring - Preserving ... , Hoyerswerda / Görlitz 1999, p. 273 ff.
- ↑ Heinrich Deumer: The legal claim Bohemia Austria ... , Leipzig 1884, p. 21