The Edict of Potsdam (German: Edikt von Potsdam) was a proclamation issued by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, in Potsdam on 29 October 1685, as a response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the Edict of Fontainebleau. It encouraged Protestants to relocate to Brandenburg.
EdictofPotsdam (German: Edikt von Potsdam) was a proclamation issued by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, in Potsdam on...
The Edictof Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation...
Potsdam (German pronunciation: [ˈpɔtsdam] ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan...
Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick William, issued the EdictofPotsdam, inviting the French religious refugees to come to the lands and cities of his...
The Edictof Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known...
the site of major redevelopment projects. The history of Potsdamer Platz can be traced to 29 October 1685, when the Tolerance EdictofPotsdam was signed...
1685 – The EdictofPotsdam allowed the reform of Huguenots in Lutheran Prussian Kingdom. 1689 – The Act of Toleration, by the Parliament of England, protected...
history. In 1685, after the revocation of the Edictof Nantes in France, the city responded with the EdictofPotsdam, which guaranteed religious freedom...
With the EdictofPotsdam in 1685, Frederick William invited the French Calvinist Huguenots to Brandenburg. More than 15,000 Huguenots came, of whom 6,000...
responded to the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France with the EdictofPotsdam, which guaranteed religious freedom and tax-free status to French Huguenot...
emphasised the importance of a powerful military to protect the state's disconnected territories, while the EdictofPotsdam (1685) opened Brandenburg-Prussia...
treaties of Wehlau and Bromberg in 1657. The territories of the Hohenzollerns were opened to immigration by Huguenot refugees by the EdictofPotsdam in 1685...
Fontainebleau, Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg declared the EdictofPotsdam (October 1685), giving free passage to Huguenot refugees and tax-free...
again. In response to the Edictof Fontainebleau, Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg declared the EdictofPotsdam, giving free passage to Huguenot...
countries, where they often intermarried with the population of the host country (see EdictofPotsdam). Therefore, the law potentially conferred French citizenship...
William of Prussia issued the EdictofPotsdam within a week after French king Louis XIV's Edictof Fontainebleau, that decreed the abolishment of the 1598...
sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edictof Fontainebleau, Frederick William of Brandenburg declared the EdictofPotsdam, giving free passage...
resettled in the Uckermark as a response to the EdictofPotsdam issued by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. Frederick William allowed the Huguenots...
the EdictofPotsdam. These Huguenots helped to develop the economy and culture of the Uckermark. In 1701 the territory became part of the Kingdom of Prussia...
(October 29 O.S.) – The EdictofPotsdam is issued by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg in response to France's Edictof Fontainebleau, welcoming...
Theodore zu Dohna-Schlobitten. He was entrusted with enacting the EdictofPotsdam, by which Huguenot refugees were encouraged to live in Brandenburg-Prussia...
sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edictof Fontainebleau, Frederick William of Brandenburg declared the EdictofPotsdam, giving free passage...
basis of the EdictofPotsdam issued in the same year to Huguenots. The Weidendammer Bridge was also built in 1685. It led the then cross street of Dorotheenstadt...
Because of the EdictofPotsdam, Brandenburg took in Huguenots who were expelled from France. Later territories, which were ruled by relatives of the Prussian...