!!!Restitutionsedikt

Restitutionsedikt (Edict of Restitution): At the height of his 
military and political successes in the  Thirty Years' War Emperor 
Ferdinand II issued an edict on March 6, 1629, ordering the 
restitution of all church assets secularised or given to the 
Protestants after 1552 to the Catholic church. The edict was only to 
be enforced by imperial commissioners. This met with fierce 
resistance, since it would have had devastating effects on Protestant 
Germany and would have meant a loss of power for the princes. In view 
of these conflicts the Swedish king decided to join in the Thirty 
Years´ War. The edict was never realised and it was formally 
annulled by the Treaty of Westphalia.

!Literature
M. Frisch, Das Restitutionsedikt, 1993.


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