Birk (district)
Birk is a historical name for a lower judicial district , which was separated from the usual division in Harden in Denmark and in the Duchy of Schleswig, which belongs to Denmark as a fiefdom .
The Birk mostly comprised the spatially closed area of a basic rule : The landlord appointed the chairman and the secretary of Birkgerichts. Since the late 18th century, the birch cartridges waived their judicial rights, so that the respective birch was integrated into the responsible office. In the Duchy of Schleswig there was a division into a birch only in the central and northern areas. The name has been preserved in the Schleswig-Holstein nature reserve Geltinger Birk in eastern fishing .
In the Middle Ages, Birk was also the name for trading places such as the Danish Haithabu or the Swedish Birka .
In Norway, a judge who worked in a Birk was called Sorenbirkeskriver .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt, Ortwin Pelc (Ed.): Schleswig-Holstein Lexicon . 2nd, enlarged and improved edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02441-4 (Lemma Birk).