Sweden-held lands on the southern Baltic coast (1630–1815)
Swedish Pomerania
Svenska Pommern(Swedish) Schwedisch-Pommern(German)
1630–1815
Flag of Sweden
Coat of arms (1660)
Swedish Pomerania (orange) within the Swedish Empire in 1658
Status
Swedish Dominion
State of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806
Capital
Stettin (1630–1720)
Stralsund (1720–1815)
Common languages
Low German
German
Swedish
Religion
Lutheranism
Government
Principality
Duke
• 1630–1632
Gustav II Adolf (first)
• 1809–1815
Charles XIII (last)
Governor-General
• 1633–1641
Sten Svantesson Bielke (first)
• 1800–1809
Hans Henric von Essen (last)
• 1809–1815
Direct rule
History
• Treaty of Stettin
10 July 1630
• Peace of Westphalia
24 October 1648
• Treaty of Stettin
4 May 1653
• Treaty of Stockholm
21 January 1720
• Treaty of Kiel
14 January 1814
• Congress of Vienna
4/7 June 1815
• Hand-over to Prussia
23 October 1815
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Pomerania
Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
Swedish Pomerania (Swedish: Svenska Pommern; German: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the southern Baltic coast, including Pomerania and parts of Livonia and Prussia (dominium maris baltici).
Sweden, which had been present in Pomerania with a garrison at Stralsund since 1628, gained effective control of the Duchy of Pomerania with the Treaty of Stettin in 1630. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and the Treaty of Stettin in 1653, Sweden received Western Pomerania (German Vorpommern), with the islands of Rügen, Usedom, and Wolin, and a strip of Farther Pomerania (Hinterpommern). The peace treaties were negotiated while the Swedish queen Christina was a minor, and the Swedish Empire was governed by members of the high aristocracy. As a consequence, Pomerania was not annexed to Sweden like the French war gains, which would have meant abolition of serfdom, since the Pomeranian peasant laws of 1616 was practised there in its most severe form. Instead, it remained part of the Holy Roman Empire, making the Swedish rulers Reichsfürsten (imperial princes) and leaving the nobility in full charge of the rural areas and its inhabitants. While the Swedish Pomeranian nobles were subjected to reduction when the late 17th-century kings regained political power, the provisions of the peace of Westphalia continued to prevent the pursuit of the uniformity policy in Pomerania until the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806.
In 1679, Sweden lost most of its Pomeranian possessions east of the Oder river in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and in 1720, Sweden lost its possessions south of the Peene and east of the Peenestrom rivers in the Treaty of Stockholm. These areas were ceded to Brandenburg-Prussia and were integrated into Brandenburgian Pomerania. Also in 1720, Sweden regained the remainder of its dominion in the Treaty of Frederiksborg, which had been lost to Denmark in 1715. In 1814, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Swedish Pomerania was ceded to Denmark in exchange for Norway in the Treaty of Kiel, and in 1815, as a result of the Congress of Vienna, transferred to Prussia.
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mainly in its white primary feathers. The Swedish Blue originated in the former dominion of SwedishPomerania, now in north-west Poland and north-east...
Eric of Pomerania (Polish: Eryk Pomorski lit. 'Eric the Pomeranian'; c. 1381/1382 – 24 September 1459), ruled over the Kalmar Union from 1396 until 1439...
Westphalia in 1648 Sweden received SwedishPomerania, situated along the German Baltic Sea coast. The whole Duchy of Pomerania was under Swedish control already...
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for the Allies and for Sweden. At this point, the Swedish empire in Germany began to crumble. In 1675, most of SwedishPomerania and the Duchy of Bremen...
SwedishPomerania. Britain would briefly switch sides and supported Sweden before leaving the war. In addition to the rivalries in the anti-Swedish coalition...
check. The Swedish commander Hans Henric von Essen then commenced a great sortie to push the remaining French forces out of SwedishPomerania. The French...
Treaty of Stettin (1653). Western Pomerania became SwedishPomerania, a Swedish dominion, while Farther Pomerania became a Brandenburg-Prussian province...
(1653-1815)). Hither Pomerania stayed with the Swedish Empire and henceforth became known as SwedishPomerania. The border was settled in the Treaty of Stettin...
provinces broke away from Swedish power one by one, leaving Sweden with only a few northern German territories: SwedishPomerania, Bremen-Verden and Wismar...
threefold attack on the Swedish protectorate of Holstein-Gottorp and provinces of Livonia and Ingria, aiming to draw advantage as the Swedish Empire was unaligned...
is now Southern Sweden. The anti-Swedish allies meanwhile neutralized the Transylvanian army and Polish forces ravaged SwedishPomerania. In 1658 Charles...
above-mentioned Kalmar War. Major Swedish successes followed the capture of Riga in 1621 and the Swedish landing in Pomerania in 1630. The gains in the Torstenson...
gains around the world. Prussia added territory from smaller states: SwedishPomerania, most of the Kingdom of Saxony, and the western part of the former...