Did the north/eastern and south/western Germans embrace different branches of Christianity because they always felt they had different identities, culture, mutually unintelligible dialects etc? Sort of similar to eg. the Irish and the English, or the Poles and the Russians or what it was like in the balkans etc.
>>18270126>they feltConfession in early modern germany was up to the lord, not the population. If the lord decided he wanted to be protestant for whatever reason, he would set up protestant clergy and the population would mostly follow.
>>18270126Bump
>>18270149Also after the 30 years war religion stopped being a factor in politics. And religion was never associated with foreign dominance like in ireland or poland. It's really not comparable.
>>18270149This. In the early modern era (the time of the Reformation) the southern german states simply had closer ties to the Emperor and thus the Papacy. With the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 the regulation of "Cuius regio, eius religio" (whose realm, his religion) came into effect. And this regulation was reinforced with the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. There were protestant communities and uprisings in southern Germany, Austria and Bohemia as well but those were crushed and eventually persecuted.
If these maps included Switzerland, which is half Protestant, people would not be compelled to say such retarded things. The Protestant-Catholic split is not cleanly north-south, it's only vaguely correlated. There are also Catholics in Lower Saxony(as seen on OP's map).
>>18270297I can't help but wonder what a protestant HRE would look like
>>18270430Probably not much different as both the catholic and protestant estates of the HRE were keen to preserve their independencies (often called princely/german liberties) in the face of a central authority. Emperor Ferdinand II. faced huge opposition from the catholic estates during the 30 Years War as he was amassing too much power for their liking. They forced the emperor to dismiss Wallenstein as the supreme commander of the Habsburg army in 1630, as the Catholic estates saw him as one of Ferdinand II. greatest pillars of support. In turn the protestant estates rejected to aid Friedrich V. of the Palatinate as he tried to secure the bohemian throne. They saw this as a blatant grab for power by Friedrich V. that would destabilize the realm and even before the crisis in Bohemia he managed to alienate the members of the Protestant Union with his authoritative behavior.
>>18270304reminds me of french chuds saying the northern french were culturally protestant and thus superior to southern french
>>18270816I wish i could remember what that guy's name was, so sad that occitans got culturally genocided, the language is quite beautifulhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogOs2jMnGI
