Peace of Westphalia
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Were a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War. Catholics and Protestants were redefined as equal in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. There were major territorial adjustments. In particular, France, Sweden and Brandenburg had major territorial gains, and several religious territories of the Holy Roman Empire were secularized.
Chronology
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October 1648: With the Peace of Westphalia Sweden received Western Pomerania (henceforth Swedish Pomerania), Wismar, and the Prince-Bishoprics of Bremen and Verden as hereditary fiefs. Sweden evacuated the remnant territories it had occupied in the Holy Roman Empire.
January 1649: The Schwerin Prince-Bishopric is secularised as Principality for Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
October 1648: Maximilian kept the Upper Palatinate, to the north of Bavaria.
October 1648: Borders of the Dutch Republic at the end of the Thirty Years' War.
October 1648: In 1648, the imperial city of Weissenburg was made part of France as a result of the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War.
October 1648: The Minden Prince-Bishopric is secularized as a principality for Brandenburg.
October 1648: In 1648, the territory of Hagenau was ceded to the Kingdom of France as part of the Treaty of Westphalia.
October 1648: The Imperial City of Münster is acquired by the Kingdom of France.
October 1648: With the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, Further Pomerania was assigned to Brandenburg-Prussia who held the rights for inheritance (Province of Pomerania (1653-1815)). Hither Pomerania stayed with the Swedish Empire and henceforth became known as Swedish Pomerania. The border was settled in the Treaty of Stettin (1653).
January 1649: Borders at the end of the Thirty Years' War.
January 1649: Borders of the Duchy of Savoy at the end of the Thirty Years' War.
January 1649: Walkenried Abbey is secularised and suppressed.
January 1649: The region of Saarwerden returned to the Nassau-Saarbrücken line except Bockenheim.
January 1649: In 1648, the territory of Bisanz (modern-day Besancon) was transferred to the Spanish Netherlands as part of the Treaty of Westphalia.
January 1649: Genova gave Pontremoli back to Spain.
January 1649: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of Thirty Years' War.
January 1649: The Ratzeburg Prince-Bishopric is disestablished.
October 1648: France retained the Bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun near Lorraine, received the cities of the Décapole in Alsace (except for Strasbourg, the Bishopric of Strasbourg, and Mulhouse) and the city of Pignerol near the Spanish Duchy of Milan.
October 1648: The Murbach Abbey is acquired by the Kingdom of France.
October 1648: At the end of the Thirty Years' War, several territories in Alsace were annexed by France.
January 1649: Fortress of Klis (Clissa) returned in venetian hands.
October 1648: The Halberstadt Prince-Bishopric is secularized as a principality for Brandenburg.
October 1648: Schlettstadt is acquired by the Kingdom of France.
January 1649: In the 18th century, the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode, who were directly under the Empire, had to subordinate their territories to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Electorate of Hanover, while the Counts of Stolberg-Stolberg and the Counts of Stolberg-Roßla had to subordinate the County of Stolberg, which was divided between them, to the Electorate of Saxony.
January 1649: The Münster Prince-Bishopric fell to Sweden.
January 1651: Through the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Pfirt was to fall as Comté de Ferrette to the Kingdom of France, which finally took possession of the county in 1650.
January 1649: Marstetten was devastated during the Thirty Years' War. Its territoriy became de facto part of Bavaria.
October 1648: The Imperial City of Landau is acquired by the Kingdom of France.
Selected Sources
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), p. 26-49
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 42-43
Westfälischer Friede - Vertrag von Osnabrück, https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Westf%C3%A4lischer_Friede_%E2%80%93_Vertrag_von_Osnabr%C3%BCck
