Truce of Ratisbon

Timeline

1. 1684Ratisbon · BavariaAfter the fall of Luxembourg, Leopold I had to choose between the western front against France and the eastern front against the Ottomans. Innocent XI strongly urged a ceasefire on the western front. Louis XIV also did not wish to continue waging war against the Empire under the public opinion of 'Christendom resisting the Ottomans,' and negotiations opened at Ratisbon, seat of the Imperial Diet.
2. 1684Dominican convent, Ratisbon · BavariaOn 15 August 1684, representatives of Louis XIV, Leopold I, and Charles II signed the truce at the Dominican convent in Ratisbon. It was set for twenty years, confirming France's retention of Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and most annexed lands, and the return of Courtrai and Dixmude.
3. 1684Strasbourg and Luxembourg · Western EuropeThe truce temporarily froze Louis XIV's early-1680s expansionist high-water mark as the status quo, while the Empire redirected its resources to the Holy League's war against the Ottomans. The arrangement did not last: France resumed hostilities in 1688, the Nine Years' War broke out, and the twenty-year term never ran its course.