The Peace of Augsburg and Modern Germany
The Peace of Augsburg is the settlement between the Holy Roman Emperor and all his princes and nobility that established that the religion of a locality in Imperial Germany will be the same as that of its ruler. The only two religions allowed were what we today call Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism. At the Peace every German state and principality had its religion determined. Many people may wonder what the 460 year old Religious Peace of Augsburg has to do with a modern European state. I did too until recently when I started to think about it. Let me lay out my train of thought. … More after the Jump…