Civic obedience

Citizen obedience in Osnabrück

As Bürgergehorsam (also Bürgerstube ) was an urban prison called, which served as a serving of disciplinary and police fines by citizens.

Today the name can still be found for buildings that originally served this purpose, for example citizen obedience (Osnabrück) .

literature

• Civic obedience . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 4 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date 1932 or 1933).