Und heilig ist der Sieg im Streit : Die interkonfessionelle Ehe als Streitmittel im Restaurationspreußen

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dc.contributorRemmler, Karenen_US
dc.contributorGrayson, Johnen_US
dc.contributorVan Handle, Donnaen_US
dc.contributorLauer, Marken_US
dc.contributor.advisorDavis, Gabriele Wittigen_US
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Jenniferen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-16T13:46:51Z
dc.date.available2011-02-16T13:46:51Z
dc.date.gradyear2010en_US
dc.date.issued2011-02-16
dc.date.submitted2010-05-23 21:54:33en_US
dc.description.abstractIn a society where one s religion represented one s identity, the decision of the Congress of Vienna (1815) to give the catholic regions of the Rhineland and Westphalia to protestant Prussia was a politically expedient act that could only lead to trouble. Indeed tensions between ruler and subject began to rise almost immediately, as Prussia proved unable to set aside its own identity to govern its new lands in a culturally sensitive way. During this time the Catholic Church also began recovering from the Napoleonic onslaught and a new conservative movement began to form, which put the beliefs of the church before the laws of secular rulers. Its members eventually came to blows with the Prussian government over the issue of interdenominational, or mixed marriage and the result was a period of unrest known as the Kölner Wirren (the Cologne Troubles). My work attempts to reveal how this mixed marriage debate of the early 19th century both demonstrated and exemplified the kinds of tensions and divisions that split Prussia during the Restoration/Vormärz Period. The arrest of Archbishop Clemens August von Droste zu Vischering of Cologne by Prussia in late 1837 after his refusal to follow their mild mixed marriage policy sparked unrest across the catholic provinces of Prussia, both in the West and in Poland, which the Prussian government proved unable to check. Only with the death of the Prussian king and his replacement with a more liberal-minded monarch were the two sides able to arrive at a truce in 1842 after Prussia capitulated to most of the Catholic Church s demands. This capitulation meant that the problems were not resolved, but merely shoved back under the political rug. Indeed, the same issues resurfaced in the 1870s during the Kulturkampf of Otto von Bismarck, and many can still be seen today.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/643
dc.language.isodeen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublic
dc.subjectgermanen_US
dc.subjectprussiaen_US
dc.subjectmarriageen_US
dc.subjectrhinelanden_US
dc.subjectwestphaliaen_US
dc.subjectvaticanen_US
dc.subjectcatholicismen_US
dc.subjectprotestantismen_US
dc.subjectchurchen_US
dc.subjectstateen_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subjectrestorationen_US
dc.subjectnapoleonen_US
dc.titleUnd heilig ist der Sieg im Streit : Die interkonfessionelle Ehe als Streitmittel im Restaurationspreußenen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke Collegeen_US

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