Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679)

The Peace of Saint- Germain ended the Swedish -Brandenburg War. In an agreement dated June 29, 1679 between France, Sweden and Brandenburg, the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm Vorpommern had to cede back to Sweden, as his allies, the Netherlands and the Emperor did not support him and he alone the overpowering France faced with Denmark. Disappointed by this behavior he now joined closely to France, and undertook to give his vote in a new election as emperor in an undisclosed agreement dated October 25, 1679, Louis XIV. Brandenburg confirmed the Peace of Nijmegen.

With the peace treaty the Great Elector, only a small strip of land east of the Oder grew to the places Kammin Greifenhagen and train, he was there but build no fortifications. Painful loss was that the port cities of Stralsund and Stettin and the island of Rügen, because Brandenburg plans to increase their involvement in overseas trade were affected by the less favorable access to the Baltic. The Sweden renounced in favor of Brandenburg on their share of the Kolberger inches and France paid for Sweden 300,000 dollars to the Great Elector.

At the signing ceremony in Saint- Germain -en- Laye to Friedrich Wilhelm " Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor! " ( German: " Avengers, you may come into me once from my bones! ") Have expressed ( Büchmann: Winged words).