AHC: Partition the Holy Roman Empire

Challenge: Have the Holy Roman Empire be partitioned by surrounding countries, like Denmark-Norway, Sweden, France, England, Hungary, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or the Netherlands.
 

dead_wolf

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Um, IOTL? France dismembered the HRE in 1806 and pretty well ate or vassalized most of its former territory.

Or do you mean something like the Polish Partitions with several nations all concurrently nibbling into the HRE over an extended period of time?
 
Um, IOTL? France dismembered the HRE in 1806 and pretty well ate or vassalized most of its former territory.

Or do you mean something like the Polish Partitions with several nations all concurrently nibbling into the HRE over an extended period of time?

One could argue that France was nibbling into the HRE since the end of the middle ages.:)

Not to mention that a number of surrounding countries did have personal unions with states within the HRE.
 
1648--France takes The Spanish Netherlands and the Rhineland while Sweden takes Brandenburg and Mecklenburg, Saxony and Bohemia (in a Swedish led federation). Denmark takes Schleswig-Holstein.

1683: Ottoman Empire takes Austria.

That's a lot of land partitioned!
 
You could end up with competing versions of the hre, a catholic one lead by Austria and a Protestant one. The latter could be the descendant of a more successful Gustavus Adolphus's Corpus Evengelicorum.
 
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