Perpetual Diet of Regensburg
The Perpetual Diet was from 1663 to 1806 the name of the stalls representation in the Holy Roman Empire. It met in Regensburg.
During the Reichstag met previously at irregular intervals in various cities, he was from 1594 only held in the Empire Room of the City Hall of Regensburg in 1663 finally no longer resolved, after which he was referred to as Perpetual Reichstag. Regensburg was thus also the seat of about 70 Komitialgesandtschaften foreign states. The emperor himself was here represented by imperial commissioners principal who belonged from 1748 Thurn und Taxis family.
The last meeting of the Perpetual Imperial Diet was held in March 1803 rather than the adoption of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit, which ordered the reorganization of the empire, was the final dissolution of the Empire until 1806.
History
The Reichstag from 1663 had been previously not planned as a " perpetual ". They came together on January 20, 1663 to discuss the danger that was created by the Turks on the eastern frontier. Emperor Leopold I needed money for defense. Besides the already long -simmering dispute between the party and the Prince Elector was an issue. The party brought together in the prince princes urged to participate in the drafting of the electoral capitulation, Latin ius adcapitulandi and the election of a king. In essence, it was a question whether the electors exclusively allowed to negotiate the capitulation with the future emperor, effectively the Constitution could change without the Reichstag was involved with his sole, in the opinion of the princes, legislative competence.
Due to the long debates in the Reichstag a surrender should be adopted for the sake of simplicity, which should apply to all subsequent kings and emperors, a Capitulatio perpetua. But this dispute, the negated ostensibly claim to leadership of the electors, was also of fundamental importance. For in such a capitulation could be theoretically regulate all sorts of questions, such as the modalities of the declaration of outlawry. The dispute over the electoral capitulation was thus a dispute about the right to legislate and to their contents. In addition, the Reichstag should also advise left lying problems of the Thirty Years War, which had not been completely solved in the Last Recess of the previous Reichstag of 1653.
From this there arose the permanence of the Reichstag. The Emperor urged in the third year of the Reichstag the stands to greater speed. In the fifth year the stands urged the emperor that this should designate a deadline. As this deadline for the sixth year was approaching, it was decided to postpone the date again to not disperse to the whole nation in disgrace. Ultimately, you found yourself so that from that one would sit still longer. When the defense of the western frontier against France came on the agenda in the 1670s, the congregation had long since become an everlasting, even if you are still hoping for a reputirlichen Recess. Since there was no formal termination of the Reichstag more, decisions were also not taken into rich partings - the last farewell of 1654 was the youngest Recess in history - but was passed in the form of empire circuits.
It is worth noting that since the transformation of the Reichstag, the princes were barely represented even in the Perpetual Reichstag, but could be represented - it was therefore largely a Sent Congress.