Rastadt

Radstadt , or Rastall . A fortified town of the grand duchy of Baden, on the Murg, not far from its confluence with the Rhine. The peace of 1714, which put an end to the War of the Spanish Succe ion, was signed in the palace by Prince Eugène and Marshal Villars. A congre was held here in 1797-99, to negotiate a peace between France and the empire, after which the French amba adors, Roberjot and Bonnier, were murdered on their return, only a short distance from the town. At Rastadt the insurrection in Baden in 1849 first broke out; and the insurgents, after a three weeks’ siege, were obliged to surrender at discretion to the Pru ians.