The City Hall of Fribourg and the Eternal Peace

13 April 2024

France defeated the Eidgenossen of Swiss Confederates in Italy in 1515  (Marignano, near Milan).

The peace treaty was signed on 29 November 1516 in the hôtel de ville/Rathaus in bilingual Fribourg/Freiburg. The eternal Peace (la Paix éternelle, der ewige Friede) lasted until the French invasion in the year 1798.

The City Hall (Hôtel de Ville). The Eternal Peace lasted until 1798

The storm came a few years later: the Reformation. Fribourg remained Catholic and a dogmatic Catholic bastion but remained an ally of Protestant Bern until 1798.