The Peace Treaty of Westphalia, signed on October 24th 1648 in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück, ended three decades of war and was an extraordinary work of statecraft. More than 176 negotiating teams representing 194 regents were engaged in this peace conference, which ended the supremacy of the Holy Roman Empire. The treaty regarded as one of the most important in modern history, recognised the sovereignty of the German states, of Switzerland and the Netherlands. Lutherans, Calvinist and Catholics were given equal rights.
The Swiss Confederation had already been founded in 1291 but had never been legally recognized as an independent nation until 1648, when the mayor of Basle, Johann Rudolf Wettstein, as ambassador of the Confederation in Germany, obtained the legal independence act. The creation of a historic theme park which shows all the world-famous characteristics of one of the oldest European democracies will remind of the fact that Switzerland practiced first a peaceful multi-cultural, multi-linguistic and multi religious cooperation of citizen in the same country and as a originally poor Alpine country without any resources but people became a very prosperous nation through strict neutral and peaceful politics. The Swiss Village will demonstrate that typical Swiss character in a very entertaining and humoristic way through shows and rides about Swiss authors like Gottfried Keller, Jeremias Gotthelf, Johanna Spyri, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Germaine de Stael, Jean Jacques Rousseau, etc. but also through the ideas of Madame Grosholtz Tussaud, Henri Dunant, Cesar Ritz, Heinrich Pestalozzi, Paracelsus, Chevrolet, and many other famous Swiss citizen. The common history of Switzerland and the Dutch Nation, both countries became independent in 1648 close to the theme park site in North Germany, will also demonstrate that 1648 was a date that started a peaceful cooperation of the sovereign European Nations and was really the basis for the future development of all European countries inside a peaceful confederation of sovereign states.
The Mayor of Basle, Johann Rudolf Wettstein, obtained the Swiss Independence in Münster and Osnabrück in 1647/48
