User talk:Net-net/Archive

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Hello Scientizzle, thanks a lot for your welcoming. I'm still familiar with Wikipedia (see de:Userpage) and will help to expand the articles concerning my region – especially Lower Saxony and Goslar (district). Regards -- Netnet @ 22:17, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Circles

Hi there:

mind informing you that these circles were a fiction and never materialised, as this decree by the Habsburgian Austrian Holy German emporer led to the formation of the league of Schmakalden and the Reformation, because the Northern dukes, electors and kings never eve accepted the decree by Maximillian. This would have meant an infringement of their autonomy and more important a lost of their territory.

Maximillian's decree to form the so-called Reichskreise was thus a catalyser for the reformation as the Northern rulers fearing the loss of their territories joined the Protestant cause. Maximillian also tried to force the Swiss into the Reichskreise, but had to concede the quasi independence of the Swiss confederation after he lost the Battle of Dornach. Goslar was one of the first cities becoming Protestant driving out the Jesuites and catholic Imperial civil servants. This was accomplished by 1530 so that the Diet of Augsburg conceded that Goslar was Protestant territory.

Lower Saxony did not exist since the idea came up in 1923 again and the Nazis had the idea to use the Reichskreise for their evil plans, again. So if some Emporer in Vienna had the idea to push through the Reichskreise in Worms in 1495, in order to strip the Northern rulers of their territories but he millitarily and politically did not succeed (I mean Hilter also made some scary plans and luckily did not succeed) then this was an historical non-starter, as the catholic Emporers lost their war in 1648 the latest, and by then no-one remembered the establishment of the Reichskreise. The Guelphs, Oldenburgians, Swedes, Danes and Brandenburgians and multitude of dukes ruled in what is now Northern Germany, and the Austrian Holy Roman emporer could decree whatever he wanted, he was an "Emporer without clothes". But check out the City Halls of Munster and Osnabrueck, respectively, and what do they say in the treaty of Westphalia about the Reichskreise: Nothing! So history is a science has to be based upon facts on the ground (i.e. what actually happened in those days in Goslar) and Goslar was legislatively, juridically and politically Schmakaldic, i.e. belonged to the staunch opponents of the Austrian Holy German emporer and his idea of Reichskreise.

Secondly, mind making usage of proper English when making any contributions.

Cheers

xian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.157.239.230 (talk) 10:22, 11. Feb. 2007 (UTC)

Dear IP, please read Lower Saxon Circle or de:Niedersächsischer Reichskreis. Secondly, I try my very best but I'm not a native speaker (btw you corrected one preposition). Thirdly, please mind Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. -- Netnet @ 14:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]