Treaty of Ilbesheim

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The Treaty of Ilbesheim is a peace treaty dated November 7, 1704 between Austria and Bavaria .

It was the headquarters of the imperial troops to Ilbesheim before Landau in the Pfalz as a surrender agreement by the representatives of the Electoral Princess Therese Kunigunde , the Hofkammerdirektor and private secretary Johann Sebald Neusönner , and representatives of the Roman Emperor I. Leopold signed. Through him, the acts of war in the context of the Spanish War of Succession in southern Germany were ended.

This ended the independence of Bavaria , which was taken over by the victors and exploited by them for the continuation of the war against France .

The Treaty of Ilbesheim imposed the following obligations on the Electress Therese Kunigunde and the Electorate of Bavaria:

All fortresses that were still occupied by Bavarian troops had to be handed over to the Allies with their arsenals, artillery, ammunition, rifles and other war material; the Bavarian troops, officers, men and other military personnel had to be dismissed and swear, henceforth "against your imperial majesty, not to serve the Roman Empire and Dero high allies"; all spoils of war from Tyrol and the Kufstein fortress had to be returned; both sides undertook to release their prisoners of war; the French officers who were still in Bavaria were given free travel; the Electress retained territorial authority over the Rent Office and the residential city of Munich with all proceeds and income; This sovereignty was restricted in such a way that the fortress of Ingolstadt with arsenal etc. should be granted to the Allies to raze the defenses of the city of Munich, which had been built since 1700, and all arsenal stocks, artillery, ammunition and other war material that is in the armories of the city and the Munich Rent Office found to be delivered; Apart from a guard of the Electress of 400 men, no military team was allowed to exist; the Electress was given the option to leave Bavaria with her children and her court; the Bavarian estates received their previous rights fully confirmed.

With this last provision, Emperor Leopold I wanted to secure the cooperation of the estates, which, as we know, were loyal to the Reich and had always rejected the anti-imperial policies of their sovereign, Elector Maximilian Emanuel .

In a special supplement of December 21, 1704, the Electress expressly undertook for the remaining part of the country that she would be “against Sr. Kaiser by our nationals and subjects. Majesty and the Holy Roman Empire do not cherish anything harmful or harmful, and even less let them be done ”.

In the Treaty of Ilbesheim, the Electress Therese Kunigunde, who had been appointed regent by Max Emanuel, had to recognize the occupation of the country by imperial ones. After all, she was granted sovereignty over Munich and the right to enter and leave the country freely.

The Habsburg Joseph I , who had succeeded his father Leopold I on the imperial throne in May 1705, was no longer bound by the contract when the Electress asked to return after visiting her mother in Venice. At the same time Joseph had the Munich pension office occupied and set about exploiting Bavaria's resources for his warfare. Taxes were massively increased, objectors were thrown into dungeon and 12,000 recruits were forcibly pressed into the Imperial Austrian regiments. According to Christian Probst, this occupation of the Munich Rent Office by troops from Emperor Joseph I was a breach of the Ilbesheim Treaty. The Bavarian royal seat of Munich became the "Imperial Capital in Bavaria".

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