The Nuremberg Peace of Religions, already known as Nuremberg's decency, was a peace treaty in which the Emperor Charles V and the Protestants, for the first time in Nuremberg (July 23, 1532), secured a mutual guarantee of rights and peace for the present confessional acquis.
The Protestant empires were therefore included in the Reichsland peace for the first time. The Worms edict, which the Protestants had declared in the eighth, was in fact abolished. The Emperor agreed to cease all religious processes at the Reichskammergericht. The persecution of the Protestants was stopped and the Reformation was able to spread unimpeded.
The decision of Emperor Charles V to close the Nuremberg Peace of Religion is explained by the external political situation of the Holy Roman Empire. In view of the occupation of Hungary by the Turks, Emperor Karl needed a free hand in the empire to avert the danger of the Turks. The Protestant princes, who had joined together in the Schmalkaldian League in 1531, were concerned chiefly with the securing of their political and economic interests, as they wished to increase their power by the confiscation of the Catholic church property and the establishment of their own Landeskirchenregiment Edit source text Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (conceptual definition): GND: 4399177-4 (AKS)
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