Münster
City in Westphalia, in north-western Germany. It was one of the two seats of the peace congress appointed to open in July 1643. The treaty between the emperor and France, one of the two that make up the Peace of Westphalia, is dated here on 24 October 1648.
Münster lies in Westphalia in north-western Germany. The peace treaty with Sweden records that a congress of plenipotentiaries was appointed to meet from July 1643 at Osnabrück and at Münster (Treaty of Osnabrück preamble), and the treaty between the emperor and the king of France is dated at Münster on 24 October 1648 (Treaty of Münster closing clause). See the Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia.
What happened here
- 1618 to 1648, firm dateThe Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia
A revolt of Bohemian Protestants in 1618 grows into a war that draws in all Germany and its neighbours. The treaties of Osnabrück and Münster in 1648 fix the rights of Catholics, Lutherans and Reformed in the Empire by the year 1624; the pope declares those articles void.