Swedish Pomerania

Swedish Pomerania (Swedish: Svenska Pommern) was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from the 17th to the 19th century, situated on the German Baltic Sea coast. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the Southern Baltic Coast including Pomerania and parts of Silesia and Prussia. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Sweden received Upper Pomerania, or Vorpommern, a strip of Lower Pomerania, or Hinterpommern, with the islands of Rügen, Usedom and Wollin.

Integration in the eleventh hour

By Royal proclamation on June 26 in 1806 the Constitution of Pomerania was declared to have been suspended and abolished. The Swedish Instruments of Government of 1772 and 1789 and Law of 1734 were declared to have taken precedence and were to be implemented following September 1 1808. The reason for perpetrating this Royally sanctioned coup d'etat was that the Estates, despite a Royal prohibition had taken to courts to appeal against Royal statutes, specifically the statute of April 30, 1806 regarding the raising of a Pomeranian army. In the new order Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden attempted to introduce a government divided into departments. Swedish church law was introduced. The country was divided into four provincial districts ("Härad") and congregational districts ("Socken") complying to the Swedish model of administration. The Estates of Pomerania could only be called regarding questions that specifically concerned Pomerania and Rügen. The new order of the Landtag was modelled on the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates and a meeting according to the new order also took place in August 1806, which declared its loyalty to the King and hailed him as their ruler. In wake of this revolution a number of social reforms were implemented and planned, where the most important was the abolisment of serfdom by a Royal statute of July 4, 1806, a practice that had never been implemented in Sweden itself.

Related Topics:
June 26 - 1806 - Instruments of Government - 1772 - 1789 - 1734 - September 1 - 1808 - April 30 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden - Härad - Socken - Riksdag of the Estates - July 4

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