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The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund [ˌdɔʏtʃɐ ˈbʊnt] ⓘ) was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. [a] It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.
The states of the German Confederation were member states of the German Confederation, from 20 June 1815 until 24 August 1866. On the whole, its territory nearly coincided with that remaining in the Holy Roman Empire at the outbreak of the French Revolution , with the notable exception of Belgium .
The German Confederation and its Diet came into existence as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon.The original task was to create a new constitutional structure for Germany after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire eight years before.
A revised draft from 2 June 1815 was approved by a majority of the assembly of states as the Constitution of the German Confederation on 8 June 1815, with Württemberg and Baden not participating and Bavaria and Saxony not voting. Saxony joined on 6 June and Bavaria on 8 June, which allowed the Constitution to be adopted and signed that day.
The German Confederation and Congress Poland are created, and the neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire . 16 June- Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Ligny : Napoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher .
Germany is traditionally a country organized as a federal state.After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the German-speaking territories of the empire became allied in the German Confederation (1815–1866), a league of states with some federalistic elements.
Bad Homburg in 1851. Frederick V lost his lands in the German mediatisation of 1806, when Hesse-Homburg was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Hesse-Darmstadt). But in 1815, the Congress of Vienna forced Hesse-Darmstadt to recognize the independence of Hesse-Homburg, which was increased by the addition of Meisenheim (176 km²), part of the former French département of Sarre, located ...
In 1815 Baden became a member of the German Confederation established by the Act of 8 June, annexed to the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna of 9 June. However, in the haste of winding up the Congress, the question of the succession to the grand duchy did not get settled, a matter that would soon become acute.