Treaty of Baden

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The Treaty of Baden was the treaty that ended hostilities between France and the Holy Roman Empire, who had been at war with one another since the War of the Spanish Succession. It was signed on September 7, 1714 in Baden, Switzerland and complemented the Treaty of Utrecht and the Treaty of Rastatt, by which Emperor Karl VI had to accept the Utrecht Treaty in behalf of Austria. So the war was finally over. In the Baden Treaty, the formally missing terms of peace between France and the Holy Roman Empire were agreed upon.

Under the treaty Austria got the Southern Netherlands and the Spanish territories in Italy, i.e. Naples (yet not Sicily), Milan, Mantua, and Sardinia.
The treaty allowed France to retain Alsace, and gave the bank of the Rhine river (Breisgau) to Austria.
The prince electors of Bavaria and Cologne were reinstated in their territories and their positions.
Emperor Karl VI kept the title of a King of Spain and the Spanish heritage - which was in fact of no value, since in Spain the power remained with king Philip V of Spain alone.