Oldest wine bill

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The oldest wine bill to date that has survived in Germany dates from November 18, 1211. Due to the importance of the matter, the wine sale was integrated into a notarized contract in Latin .

history

Participants were members of the Greiffenclau family , known as the Lords of Winkel and in later generations of Schloss Vollrads . Emmircho and Heinrich Grifenclawa ceded their right to tithe the goods of the St. Viktorstift in exchange for a lump sum compensation in the amount of three loads of wine (about 3,600 liters) per year. This wine was in turn bought by her brother Ruthard, who held the office of Domcellarar in Mainz , with an unlimited contract and donated to the donation fund of the canons of St. Viktor for the salvation of the family. The invoice contains the name of the seller, the name of the buyer, the type and quantity of the goods, the date of the purchase contract and the names of the witnesses to the contract. The seal of the notifying Archbishop Siegfried II of Eppstein on yellow-red silk cords concludes the contract. Even back then, the contract still contained indispensable parameters. From the lack of information on prices, one can conclude that there were different stipulations each year that could not be agreed in advance for a long-term business deal. Back then, too, the price was dependent on quantity and quality. The original document is in the Mainz city archive .

literature

  • Ludwig Falck , Mainz Regesten 1200–1250 on the history of the city, its spiritual and secular institutions and inhabitants . Text volume Mainz 2007 (contributions to the history of the city of Mainz 35.1) p. 90f. No. 172 as well as in the second part panel VII (b / w illustration)
  • Rowald Hepp: Wine bills over time. Bookkeeping and accounting for the Schloss Vollrads winery (= writings on wine history. Vol. 166, ISSN  0302-0967 ). Society for the History of Wine, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RIplus Regg. EB Mainz 2 [after 803 ], in: Regesta Imperii Online , accessed August 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ In the original text it says carratas = truckloads.
  3. ↑ Ulrike Würzberg: The oldest wine bill in Schloss Vollrads in Winkel was issued 800 years ago. In: Wiesbaden Courier. December 30, 2011, accessed September 24, 2012 .