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Bank List are list on the pews with the clear or Vulgonamen the parishioners who have purchased this seat for sale and for one year, by the chair woman paid interest charges. In larger churches there were also chair chips.
Before the introduction of the church tax, interest was an important regular income for the parishes.
Chair plan of the Marienkirche in Lüneburg, which was demolished in 1818
