Brokmer letter
The Brokmerbrief , often incorrectly also found as Brookmerbrief , is the code of law of the brocmanni , the inhabitants of the East Frisian Brokmerland , written down in the 13th century , a settlement area around the villages of Marienhafe, Engerhafe and Wiegboldsbur west of Aurich that was reclaimed by the end of the 12th century . The brokmer letter was first written in Frisian after 1276 .
As the most detailed Frisian legal source, it reports on the state and judicial constitution of a country whose law was based on the will of the assembled people. In the brokmer letter it is regulated that the political and judicial power lay in the hands of elected peasant annual officials, the so-called "Redjeven" (consuls, advisers), who in turn were controlled in their power by the brokmer letter.
Around the middle of the 14th century the time of the free rural communities is over; the local government no longer worked. However, the regional unit remained - in contrast to the Emsigerland, for example - because the prohibition of the brokmer letter to build solid stone houses and castles prevented such approaches from local rulers. Feudalism, which was widespread in Europe in the Middle Ages, remained unknown in East Frisia.
Probably through the advent of the tom Brok , but at the latest with the victory of the Cirksena , the industrious right then prevailed, to which Edzard I. d. Size At the beginning of the 16th century he built up his East Frisian land law .
The Brokmer manuscript is unique in Old Frisian legal literature because it is a legal code in the true sense and not, as with the other Old Frisian manuscripts , a legal compilation. Today two manuscripts still exist, one in Oldenburg , Lower Saxony State Archives, the second in Hanover , Lower Saxony State Library.
literature
- Buma, WJ (Ed.): Die Brokmer Rechtshandschriften (Oudfriese Taalen Rechtsbronnen 5) , The Hague 1949.
- Wilhelm Ebel, Jan Wybren Buma: The Brokmer Law 1965, ISBN 3-525-18151-5
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Brokmer Letter. Repertorium Fontium 2, 587. In: Geschichtsquellen.de. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, September 6, 2012, accessed on November 16, 2017 .