{"id":330927,"date":"2019-10-22T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/augsburg-city-of-peace\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:09:16","slug":"augsburg-city-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/augsburg-city-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg \u2013 City of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Augsburg\u2019s history spans more than 2000 years; in fact it was founded as a Roman military encampment in 15 B.C.. Christianity was introduced by the Romans, which means that it was present since its very beginnings.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Confessio Augustana<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the XVI century, Augsburg became an important place of the Reformation because that was where Martin Luther and the Pope\u2019s envoy, Cardinal Cajetano, met. That meeting resulted in the breakaway from the Church of Rome.<\/p>\n

With the Imperial Diets, Augsburg became one of the most important cities of the Sacred Roman Empire. In 1530, the German Princes presented the Emperor with the confessio augustana, <\/em>which formed the foundation of the Lutheran doctrine. This \u2018Confession of Augsburg\u2019, which was written by Philip Melantone, may be considered as an attempt to rebuild the broken religious unity.<\/p>\n

Religious peace of Augsburg<\/strong><\/p>\n

10 years later, Augsburg became a city blessed with religious peace: the Diet of 1555 decreed the \u2018Peace of Augsburg\u201d, which aimed at regulating, from a political point of view, the peaceful and equal co-existence of the two Denominations. All the official roles were fairly distributed between the Confessions. This gave protection to the Denominations that were a minority. Albeit it took more than a 100 years to achieve equality and peace (with the terrible \u2018Thirty Years War\u2019 till the \u2018Westphalia Peace\u2019 of 1648), the \u2018Peace of Augsburg\u2019 was the first decisive step toward religious tolerance.<\/p>\n

Feast of the Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

On August 8, 1650, Augsburg celebrated for the first time the Great Feast of the Peace, which originally was a feast of the Protestant Christians as thanksgiving for the fact that, after a long struggle, they could take back their churches and could once again conduct their worship in them. This Feast is still being celebrated; for many decades it had become a Feast of the Peace of the entire city. The political leaders, the faithful of the diverse Churches and the citizens of this famous city celebrate all together in an ecumenical solidarity that goes beyond the boundaries of the Confessions. Today, on the eve of the Great Feast of the peace, the \u2018Panel of the Religions\u2019 organizes a multi-religious prayer meeting for peace. Since 1950, August 8 has been declared a holiday for all the citizens of Augsburg.<\/p>\n

Brigitte Pischner e Margarete Hovestadt<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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