Letter from July 4, 1771
The announcement of July 4, 1771 by Margrave Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach is probably the oldest legal regulation in Germany to protect historical monuments .
history
The tender (a circular in printed form to the offices of the Margraviate) was initiated by the archivist of the Margrave on the Plassenburg , Philipp Ernst Spieß . The effect of the tender in practice seems to have been limited, because almost nine years later it is deepened and repeated in the tender of April 10, 1780 , because it had so little effect.
content
In an introduction, which first formally lists the ruler titles of the margrave, reference is made to another ordinance that served to protect historical archive material and which the margrave had issued on February 8, 1771. The following first section of the tender of July 4, 1771 deals primarily with historical, written sources and elaborations that are to be handed over to the archives of the margrave. There are also plans to protect such cultural assets from emigration beyond the border of the margraviate.
The second section deals with monument protection issues: It deals with cases in which care should be taken to ensure that important structural evidence is not damaged. In the case of renovation, conversion or demolition of historical buildings, those parts of the equipment or the buildings themselves should be protected and secured that represent historical sources as “monuments”.
literature
- Gabriele Dolff-Bonekämper : The Discovery of the Middle Ages. Studies on the history of the registration of monuments and the protection of monuments in Hessen-Kassel and Kurhessen in the 18th and 19th centuries . Hessian Historical Commission , Darmstadt / Historical Commission for Hesse , Marburg 1985, ISBN 3-88443-149-8 (= Dissertation Marburg 1984).