Treaty of Lunéville

As the Peace of Luneville who signed on 9 February 1801 in Luneville between France and the Holy Roman Empire under the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II peace treaty is called. The contract was preceded by an armistice, which was signed in Steyr on December 25, 1800.

The Peace of Luneville ended the Second Coalition War against France and confirmed the peace of Campo Formio of 1797.

Provisions

France was occupied since 1794, left bank territories to which it laid claim earlier and it had connected on November 4, 1797 by law with the French territory. Napoleon Bonaparte took on March 9, 1801 officially in possession. France also reached the recognition of three daughter republics, the Batavian (Netherlands), the Helvetic ( Switzerland ) and the Ligurian Republic ( Genoa). The empire was to compensate affected by territorial losses; German princes committed, which was implemented in 1803 by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.

Since the Peace of Luneville French laws, which were published formally in the annexed territories, received constitutional recognition, are or were they a subsidiary in the left bank of the Rhine the German states in part until today or in recent times, such as the full-time so-called left-bank notary, the cemetery beings or certain state services to the churches. Also, the advanced, important for the economic development of the Rhineland Civil Code was in these areas long continue in Prussian and Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse - time and was only in 1900 replaced by the implementing legislation to the Civil Code.

The Peace of Luneville cities were separated from each other especially on the Rhine. In contrast to Basel, which remained a cohesive city situated on both banks of the Rhine, for example, the town of Laufen castle was smashed into two parts. The right bank - the lesser town, originally smaller part, was from now on to Baden, while the number of city - so the larger part of the federal Switzerland was slammed.