[1]Though the war had concluded in multiple Swiss victories, both Switzerland and the Swabian League were exhausted, and the leaders of both sides desired peace.

Thus, the Swiss Confederacy was de facto independent and not made to join an Imperial Circle.

[2] Jurisdiction over Thurgau, previously an Imperial loan to the city of Constance, was to pass to the Swiss Confederacy.

In the words of Wilhelm Oechsli (1890), the treaty represented "the recognition of Swiss independence by Germany".

Nevertheless, the Confederacy was substantially strengthened as a polity within the Empire by the treaty, and an immediate consequence of this was the accession of Basel and Schaffhausen in 1501, as part of the expansion (1481–1513) from the late medieval Eight Cantons to the early modern Thirteen Cantons.