Copy (dowry)

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A copy is usually viewed as part of the trousseau (marriage property or dowry ).

definition

The dowry was usually brought into the marriage by the bride in money, land or cows. A copy, however, was only promised by the bride to her groom. Examples according to which the wedding couple brought a "copy" with him into the marriage are extremely rare. After the Statutarrechten of the Kingdom of Bavaria making out in was District Court Lindau as a gift considered the bride to her groom "gifts before the wedding 1. The amount brought by the woman making out, movables, Fahrniß , and what their body properly" quote from

Accordingly, in contrast to the trousseau, making out is a voluntary (but mostly common) service by the bride or her parents to the wedding party.

Items of execution

Only items that were "brought to the groom's house on the wedding day" on the bridal wagon counted towards the completion. They were apparently generally known in the past and are therefore never detailed in the letter minutes of the Augsburg bishopric . It included:

  • the bride's clothes (bridal gown)
  • her bed (the bed with pillows, pillows or straw sack, sheets and covers) and
  • Furniture (wardrobe, chest, also pantry)

Amount of copy

Especially when daughters marry with high dowry (approx. 500 guilders and more), the term “appropriate” copy is often used. Then their value could be 100 guilders. Otherwise, however, its amount is given several times as only about 30 guilders.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Augsburg State Archives, Augsburger Pflegeämter Vols. 249–258, letter protocols from the Amtmannamt Pfronten (1724–1744 and 1764–1792)
  2. ↑ Georg Michael von Weber, representation of the entire provincial = and statute = rights of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Vol. 4, The rights of Swabia and Neuburg, Karl Kollmann'sche Buchhandlung Augsburg 1840, p. 734
  3. ↑ Reinhard Riepl, Dictionary of Family and Local History Research in Bavaria and Austria , 3rd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028274-4 , p. 216, column 2
  4. ^ Augsburg State Archives, Augsburger care offices, vol. 257, p. 815
  5. ↑ State Archives Augsburg, Augsburger care offices, vol. 254, p. 515; but not expressly referred to as “copy” here.