Warsaw Treaty (1773)

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The Treaty of Warsaw of September 18, 1773 was a treaty concluded in Warsaw between the King of Poland Stanisław August Poniatowski and the Rzeczpospolita on the one hand and the Prussian King Frederick II on the other. It was a consequence of the division of Poland between Russia, Austria and Prussia in the St. Petersburg Treaty of August 5, 1772 .

In the contract written in French, u. a. Legal claims asserted that had resulted from non-compliance with the agreements of the Treaty of Bromberg of November 6, 1657 .

The area of Pomerania , which the Teutonic Order had to cede to Poland in the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, was largely handed over to Prussia. The Lande Lauenburg and Bütow entered into a new relationship with Prussia. In Article V of the treaty, it was agreed that Poland would irrevocably renounce Starostei Draheim , which was separated from Neumark Brandenburg by Poland in the first half of the 15th century and later became pledged property of Brandenburg-Prussia. The Polish Catholic clergy who owned real estate in the area were allowed to keep them and were guaranteed freedom of worship.

The minister Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg was involved in the negotiations that led to the handover of Pomerania to Prussia and Poland's final relinquishment of the Draheim area, which in earlier times had once belonged to the Pomeranian dukes .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Traité entre Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse et Sa Majesté le Roi et la Republique de Pologne, conclu à Varsovie on September 18, 1773 . Reprinted in Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany : Diplomatic Handbook. Collection of the most important European peace treaties, congress files and other state customers from the Peace of Westphalia to the most recent times . Part I, Nördlingen 1855, 224–229 .
  2. ^ Theodor von Mörner : Kurbrandenburg State Treaties from 1601 to 1700 . Berlin 1867, pp. 220-227.
  3. ^ Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel : History of the Prussian State . Part II: From 1640 to 1688 , Hamburg 1837, pp. 137–138 and p. 297
  4. ^ Reinhold Cramer : History of the Land Lauenburg and Bütow . Volume 1, Königsberg 1858 ( online version )
  5. ↑ cf. z. B. Johann Ernst Fabri : Geography for all classes . Part I, Volume 4, Leipzig 1793, pp. 553-554
  6. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania . Volume 2, 1st edition, Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 238.