Imperial tax register from 1241
The imperial tax register of 1241 of the precarie civitatum et villarum ("Request to cities and places") is one of the few medieval documents that provide information about the organization of royal territory and imperial property in the Hohenstaufen period.
King Konrad IV (1237–1254) assessed cities, administrative areas, manors , Jewish communities , probably with annual regularity and on the basis of the Hohenstaufen procurations (as regional administrative units in the royal territory). The list includes tax rebates and exemptions, money orders, and the like. a. to the Reichsschenken Konrad von Winterstetten († probably 1242/43) give an insight into the “bookkeeping” of the royal tax administration.
This imperial tax was to be paid in silver marks . A "mark" as a unit of weight was about half a pound .
Frankfurt am Main , Hagenau and Gelnhausen were at the top of the cities and offices that had to pay this service to the king with taxes of 250 and 200 marks respectively. Schwäbisch Gmünd was in 10th place. The customs office and Pfalz Kaiserswerth paid 20 marks, the Jewish communities there and in Bern , Esslingen am Neckar , Konstanz or Überlingen between 2 and 40 marks. According to the list, Villingen paid an amount of 42 marks “for the king's expenses” and, with its tax payments, ranked in the lower third of the Hohenstaufen royal cities, which were often, but not always, to become imperial cities .
The directory is kept in the Augsburg State Archives and bears the signature Vorderösterreich Urkunden 1 .
literature
- HC Faußner: The power of disposal of the German king over secular imperial property in the High Middle Ages , in: DA 29 (1973), pp. 345–449
- Eberhard Isenmann : Imperial tax register from 1241 . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 7, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7608-8907-7 , Sp. 640.
- Gero Kirchner: The tax list from 1241. A contribution to the emergence of the Hohenstaufen royal territory , in: ZRG GA 70 (1953), pp. 64-104
- Wolfgang Metz: Staufer goods registers. Studies on the constitutional and economic history of the 12th and 13th centuries , Berlin 1964
Web links
- Regesta Imperii
- Geschicfhtsquellen.de
- http://www.koeblergerhard.de/Fontes/Reichssteuermatrikel1241.htm Digital edition of the directory
- Illustration
- Imperial tax register. - 1241 with text on Wikisource
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extract from the regional information system for Baden-Württemberg : The importance of the city in the middle of the 13th century is documented in the imperial tax register of 1241: Schwäbisch Hall was charged with a fee of 200 silver marks , while Frankfurt am Main 250, Gelnhausen, Hagenau and Basel 200, Schwäbisch Gmünd 160 and Rothenburg contributed 90 marks.
- ^ Peter Koblank: The oldest Staufer town. Schwäbisch Gmünd was founded before 1162. on stauferstelen.net with detailed documentation of the certificate. Retrieved April 20, 2014.