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The naval war on Lake Constance (german: Seekrieg auf dem Bodensee) was a series of conflicts that took place on Lake Constance, beginning in 1632, in the context of the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Kapitel Dreissigjähriger Krieg/Die Eidgenossenschaft und der Krieg
/ref> The changing course of this post-war period of the Thirty Years' War brought no clear success to either party. The Protestant side (reinforced by France) could not seriously threaten imperial possessions; the Imperialists succeeded in maintaining their positions on the whole and to inflict telling losses on their enemy. Swedish/Württemberg naval domination in the last two years of the war had no wide-reaching significance by that stage.
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* Karl Gogg: ''Österreichs Kriegsmarine 1440–1848.'' Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg et. 1972, {{ISBN, 3-7023-0013-9, pp. 20 ff (for the whole chapter "Der Seekrieg"). * Heribert Küng: ''Vor 350 Jahren: Ende des dreißigjährigen Krieges in der Region Bodensee-Alpenrhein.'' In: ''Montfort.'' 50. Jg. 1998, 3rd issue, pp. 185 ff
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* Johann Sporschil: ''Der Dreissigjährige Krieg''. G. Westermann, Brunswick, 1843, pp. 684 ff.
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* Eberhard Fritz: ''Konrad Widerholt, Kommandant der Festung Hohentwiel (1634-1650). Ein Kriegsunternehmer im europäischen Machtgefüge''. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 76 (2017). pp. 217–268. Thirty Years' War 17th century in the Holy Roman Empire Military history of Austria Naval history of Germany Military history of Württemberg History of the French Navy Military history of Sweden Wars involving Switzerland 17th-century conflicts Lake Constance 1630s 1640s
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle ...
(1618 to 1648). At that time various powers ruled different parts of the shoreline: in the north and east was Roman Catholic, Habsburg Anterior Austria; in the northwest and west the troops of the Protestant Duchy of Württemberg with their allies from Kingdom of Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
and Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France ( fro, Reaume de France; frm, Royaulme de France; french: link=yes, Royaume de France) is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period ...
. These various powers sought, for strategic reasons, to exercise their hegemony
Hegemony (, , ) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one State (polity), state over other states. In Ancient Greece (8th BC – AD 6th ), hegemony denoted the politico-military dominance of the ''hegemon'' city-state over oth ...
over the area of Lake Constance. Only the partly Catholic and partly Protestant southern shore which belonged to the Old Swiss Confederacy maintained an uneasy neutrality due to their divided loyalties./ref> The changing course of this post-war period of the Thirty Years' War brought no clear success to either party. The Protestant side (reinforced by France) could not seriously threaten imperial possessions; the Imperialists succeeded in maintaining their positions on the whole and to inflict telling losses on their enemy. Swedish/Württemberg naval domination in the last two years of the war had no wide-reaching significance by that stage.
See also
*Battle of Lake Constance
The Battle of Lake Constance ( lat, Lacus Brigantinus) was a small naval battle between Roman forces and Celtic tribes in the spring of 15 BC.
Background
The battle occurred during the Roman campaigns under Augustus to conquer the northern Alp ...
References
Literature
* Carmen Galenschovski: ''Bodensee.'' 8th edn. Baedeker/Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Ostfildern 2005, ; Kapitel ''Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg zum Wiener Kongreß (1618–1815).'' pp. 36 ff.extract from Google Books
* Karl Gogg: ''Österreichs Kriegsmarine 1440–1848.'' Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg et. 1972, {{ISBN, 3-7023-0013-9, pp. 20 ff (for the whole chapter "Der Seekrieg"). * Heribert Küng: ''Vor 350 Jahren: Ende des dreißigjährigen Krieges in der Region Bodensee-Alpenrhein.'' In: ''Montfort.'' 50. Jg. 1998, 3rd issue, pp. 185 ff
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* Johann Sporschil: ''Der Dreissigjährige Krieg''. G. Westermann, Brunswick, 1843, pp. 684 ff.
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* Eberhard Fritz: ''Konrad Widerholt, Kommandant der Festung Hohentwiel (1634-1650). Ein Kriegsunternehmer im europäischen Machtgefüge''. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 76 (2017). pp. 217–268. Thirty Years' War 17th century in the Holy Roman Empire Military history of Austria Naval history of Germany Military history of Württemberg History of the French Navy Military history of Sweden Wars involving Switzerland 17th-century conflicts Lake Constance 1630s 1640s