Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yakin na Uku na Coalition ya kasance daga kimanin 1803 zuwa 1806. Bayan shan kashi a yakin
Faransawa a karkashin Napoleon a watan Disamba na 1805, Sarkin sarakuna Francis II ya yi murabus, kuma an rushe Daular a ranar 6 ga Agusta 1806. Yarjejeniyar da ta haifar ta kafa Tarayyar Rhine a watan Yulin 1806, ta haɗu da abokan kawancen Faransa goma sha shida a tsakanin jihohin Jamus (ciki har da Bavaria da <unk>). Bayan Yaƙin Oktoba na 1806 a cikin Yaƙin Ƙungiyar ta Hudu, wasu jihohin Jamus daban-daban, gami da Saxony da Westphalia, suma sun shiga Tarayyar. Austria, Prussia, Danish, Swedish Pomerania, da kuma Faransa da ke zaune a cikin Yariman Erfurt sun kasance a waje da Tarayyar Rhine. Yaƙin Haɗin Gwiwa na shida daga 1812 zuwa hunturu 1814 ya ga shan kashi na Napoleon da 'yantar da Jamus. A watan Yunin 1814, sanannen dan kasar Jamus Heinrich vom Stein ya kirkiro Hukumar Gudanarwa ta Tsakiya don Jamus ("Zentralverwaltungsbehörde") a Frankfurt don maye gurbin Confederation na Rhine wanda ya mutu. Duk da haka, masu cikakken iko da suka taru a taron Vienna sun ƙuduri aniyar ƙirƙirar ƙungiyar ƙasashen Jamus da ta fi ƙarfin Stein.