Abstract
Ministers were prominent adherents of the three denominations that were to acknowledge each other’s coequality after the 1648 Peace. One might expect that they coexisted amicably in an ostensibly more progressive and tolerant age. However, their circumstances had fundamentally changed. Prior to 1648 they were typically on opposite sides of territorial borders because princes enforced the cuius-regio principle set down by the 1555 Religious Peace of Augsburg. In the wake of 1648 they began to cross over those borders, to take up residence in rival ministers’ areas, and to vie with them for ministerial rights, jurisdiction, and fees. The opposing ministers’ rivalry facilitated the division of the sacred community and thereby expedited a local Gemeinde’s loss of its civil-sacred unity.
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