Brewing rights

The brewing right (also brewing justice , brewing right or grut right ) belonged in the Middle Ages to the prerogatives of the land or state rule . The brewing right was linked to a plot of land or a house, the Bierhof . The house or property owner could exercise the brewing rights either himself or through an employed brewer. In many cases that were Erbrichter brewing and schank entitled .

The earliest documented award by Emperor Otto II to the church in Liège dates from 974. Since the High Middle Ages , the brewing rights have largely passed to the cities. As a result, bitter disputes, so-called beer wars , developed sometimes because of the miles law .

The oldest known German brewing order comes from Augsburg (1155). The last remnants of the official brewing monopoly were removed by the German Beer Tax Act of 1918.

See also

• Grutbier

literature

• Eight centuries of beer in Freiberg . In: Messages from the Freiberg Antiquities Association . Part 1 to 5, Freiberg 1997-2001.