Peace of Pressburg (1805)
The Peace of Pressburg was signed under Francis I and the Empire of France under Napoleon Bonaparte after the Three Emperors Battle of Austerlitz between the Empire of Austria and ended the third coalition war. On December 2, 1805, Napoleon had the combined Russo- Austrian army at the Battle of Austerlitz completely defeated, exactly one year after his self- appointment as emperor. Russia was because it was so soon was able to use any new troops from the interior of the empire, resigned without peace agreement from the war. Austria, exhausted, concluded with France on December 26, 1805 in Pressburg Peace. The contract was signed Johann I Josef of Liechtenstein and Ignatz Count of Gyulai for Austria and Charles -Maurice de Talleyrand for France, one day later it ratified Napoleon at Schönbrunn Palace.
Terms and Conditions
Austria was forced to cede to the Electorate of Baden, the County of Tyrol and Vorarlberg front of Austria to the Electorate of Bavaria, the Breisgau. The rest of Further Austria was divided between Baden and Württemberg. The areas Giulia, Istria, Dalmatia and Cattaro, who came first in 1797 at the Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria fell to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. The free imperial city of Augsburg and the north-eastern part of the former Bishopric of Passau fell to Bavaria. The former Archbishopric of Salzburg, which secularized in 1803 and had risen to an electorate and the prince provost Berchtesgaden came in compensation to Austria.
The Austrian Emperor Franz I had Napoleon as Emperor, recognizing the rise in rank of the previous Elector of Bavaria and Württemberg kings and the full sovereignty of the new kings and the Elector of Baden. Furthermore, he had to give his consent to a narrow waistband with Napoleon's German princes in advance - the later Confederation of the Rhine.
Effects
The Peace of Pressburg sealed one of the most bitter defeats of Austria and led the following year, establishing the Confederation of the Rhine and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire by Francis II
The assignment of Tyrol to Bavaria was the cause of the uprisings of the peasants under Andreas Hofer, who had received promised by the Austrian Emperor relative degree of autonomy, but especially military freedom ( freedom of choice for military service ). They wanted to do without this right, as the later to become King of Bavaria Maximilian I, it is not recognized.
Most contractual clauses were canceled in 1815 as part of the Congress of Vienna, in particular in relation to the Tyrol and Veneto- Adriatic regions. But remained in Salzburg Austria, and the former Hapsburg territories Vorderösterreich in Württemberg and Baden.