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Line 14: During the [[Swiss peasant war of 1653]], when the governments of the Protestant and Catholic cantons jointly moved against the insurgent peasants, the confessional differences that had existed for over a century were merely temporarily pushed towards the background. In 1654, the Zürcher mayor Johann Heinrich Waser received the task of working out a plan to reorganise the Confederacy. However, the Federal Project of 1655 was rejected by the Catholics, because they saw a threat to their dominance in it. The difference between the religions surfaced once again. In September 1655, the enmities escalated when Protestants living in the Schwyz village Arth fled to Zürich, after which the authorities confiscated their proporties. Four of these "Nicodemites" were executed by the Schwyzers, three others were delivered to the [[Inquisition]] in [[Milan]]. On aan extraordinary [[Tagsatzung]] in December, Zürich demanded that those responsible be punished, that formal apologies be made and the dissolution of the Catholic [[Golden League]] founded in 1586. When these demands were ignored, Zürich declared war om 6 January 1656. The Catholic towns in Central Switzerland promised Schwyz their support. On the Protestant side, only Bern gave its full-scale help, while [[Canton of Schaffhausen\|Schaffhausen]] only provided troops for defence. [[Canton of Basel\|Basel]], [[Canton of Fribourg\|Fribourg]], [[Canton of Solothurn\|Solothurn]], [[Appenzell Ausserrhoden]], [[Canton of Glarus\|Glarus]], the [[Three Leagues]] and [[Canton of St. Gallen\|St. Gallen]] remained neutral.

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