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The Treaty of Habenhausen was the result of peace negotiations after the
Second Swedish war on Bremen between
Sweden
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and the city of
Bremen
Bremen ( Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state cons ...
. Negotiations in
Habenhausen began November 15, 1666, the main conditions of the treaty were:
*Bremen reserves the right to obey directly under the Holy Roman Emperor, but will not visit the parliament before the year 1700, and the city may not use the title of
Imperial immediacy
Imperial immediacy (german: Reichsfreiheit or ') was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under which the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular pri ...
in public documents within this period.
*Bremen must pay taxes to both the Swedish Crown and to the
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans ( la, Imperator Romanorum, german: Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period ( la, Imperat ...
.
History of Bremen (state)
Wars involving Sweden