Second state peace in Kappel

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The confessional distribution in the Confederation in 1536 at the height of the Reformation
The denomination distribution after the end of the Counter-Reformation

The Second Kappeler Landfriede (also Second Land Peace of 1531) is a peace treaty that was concluded on November 20, 1531 in the hamlet of Deinikon near Baar , regulating the religious conditions after the Second Kappeler War , which was between the Catholic and Reformed towns at the time of the Reformation of the Confederation .

The First Kappeler Landfrieden was lifted. The defeated reformed cantons had to accept significant disadvantages compared to the regulations of the First Kappeler Landfrieden:

  • Every sovereign canton of the Confederation can regulate the denomination bindingly for all residents in its area according to the principle cuius regio, eius religio . This principle only became binding for Germany through the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.
  • The county of Toggenburg had to recognize the suzerainty of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen again. The reformed and parity parishes were allowed to continue to exist and had to be respected by the Catholic prince abbot. The Toggenburg remained a mixed denominational area. Although it remained connected to the Swiss Confederation as a place facing away, the Toggenburgs' independence efforts had temporarily failed due to the definitive establishment of the prince's rule, and further attempts by Zurich to expand its power to the east were blocked.
  • The subjects of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen in the Princely Land between Wil and Rorschach had to return to the Catholic faith.
  • The Common Rulership of Thurgau also remained a mixed denominational area in principle, but Catholic residents of a parish could demand the restoration of their worship service, in which case the Reformed parishes had no right to continued existence.

The balance of power between the Catholic and Reformed towns in the Confederation, which was determined by the Second Kappeler Landfrieden, was not corrected until after the Second Villmerger or Toggenburg War in 1712.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Switzerland . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 14, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 0759.

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