Religious wars in Germany were fought between …

These wars were fought between Protestants and Catholics. The Thirty Years’ War that engulfed the German Empire in the early 17th century should be noted here. True, later this religious confrontation grew into a global European war, which involved other influential states, including Russia. The end of this war a little smoothed out the contradictions between Protestants and Catholics, but still the enmity between them persisted.