Bruchsaler intelligence sheet

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The Bruchsaler intelligence sheet was an intelligence sheet that appeared from 1760 under the title Bruchsaler Wochenblatt in Bruchsal in what was then Hochstift Speyer .

history

In 1757, the court printer Christian Mannhardt approached Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Hutten (1743–1770) with a proposal to set up a weekly newspaper. Based on the model of the Carlsruher Wochenblatt , a weekly newspaper was to be created for the city of Bruchsal with almost 4,000 inhabitants and for the prince-bishopric with around 60,000 inhabitants, which should be useful for a relatively fragmented territory.

In 1758 the sovereign decided on a weekly paper and it took another two years until the beginning of 1760 at the price of 1 florin ( gulden ) per year the Bruchsal weekly paper or news about all kinds of things, which the common being found useful and necessary to publicize . Since there were initially only 70 subscribers, the princely government recommended that the offices subscribe to the paper. As was customary at the time, the weekly was censored by a government secretary . In order to support the economically endangered paper, at the request of the publisher, the prince-bishop ordered compulsory subscriptions in 1762 for all central authorities, offices and communities as well as for all restaurants of the bishopric. They resisted this decision. At the end of the 1760s the Bruchsaler Wochenblatt was probably discontinued and the publisher Mannhardt died in 1767.

In 1782 the Prince-Bishop Damian August von Limburg-Stirum (1770–1797) ordered the reintroduction of a weekly newspaper. Jakob Bevern, the court printer and successor to Mannhardt, took over the publication of the weekly paper for the Princely Hochstift Speyer , which appeared from April 1782. Now the compulsory subscriptions were consistently enforced in order to create a permanent financial basis for the publication of the weekly newspaper. The ad traffic, about a third of the volume, was also important to funding. The advertisements consisted of offers for sale of wine, for houses, and requests for employment from servants. The publisher Bevern also reported the books published in his company. The ruler's ordinances made up an essential part of the sheet and were read more easily than the posters with the same content posted in public places. Many pronouncements dealt with the legal or illegal emigration of subjects, so permission to emigrate was given and requested to register any claims against the person concerned with the responsible office. Announcements by the sovereign courts were also published and the corresponding judgments of the courts. The publication of the dates of markets and fairs and price tables for important foodstuffs should promote economic life in the country. Personal events such as birth, marriage and death were also publicly displayed; the information was provided by the clergy who kept the registry books.

swell

  • Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe: holdings Zc 1112 (here the years 1785–1797, 1800, 1801)

literature

  • Lothar Schilling: The Karlsruhe and Bruchsal weekly papers as "public police institutions". In: Sabine Doering-Manteuffel (Hrsg.): Press system of the Enlightenment: periodical writings in the old kingdom. Volume 15, Colloquia Augustana, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003634-6 , p. 295ff.