Danish lustration
The Danish Lustration was a recording of the country in the Danish-ruled part of Western Pomerania between 1715 and 1721.
history
As a result of the Pomeranian campaign in the Great Northern War , the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I and the Danish-Norwegian King Friedrich IV agreed on the division of the former Swedish areas of Western Pomerania. Denmark administered Western Pomerania north of the Peene from 1715 to 1721. After the Swedish land survey, the Danes decided to conduct their own lustration (condition check), i.e. to inspect the country. The term lustration, taken from the Danish sources, is derived from the Latin lustrare (to travel, to hike) and has no connection with the otherwise common meaning of purification and atonement for lustration. In 1717/18, on behalf of the Danish government, all cities, villages, rural settlements and desolate places were examined by a commission. This commission was formed by Oberlanddrost Emanuel Friedrich von Kötzschau , the chancellery of John and the chamberlain Horst. In the country, tenants, owners and subjects were interviewed using fixed catalogs. In the cities, building registers and soul registers were created that not only recorded the heads of household, as in the Swedish survey , but all residents.
The Danish lustration, which has been preserved in full in the Danish National Archives in Copenhagen, contains information describing the area's taxing power. These files are a good genealogical source, especially for the cities recorded, as the lustration here also includes lists of residents. For the rural areas there is less information on individual persons; only a few names of the villagers appear. However, the files clearly document the trail of the devastation left by the wars.
In the Peace of Stockholm and in the Peace of Frederiksborg , both in 1720, the Swedes were able to largely dissolve the conquest of Western Pomerania.
Capture
In 2012, the Pomeranian Greif began to record the personal names contained in the files and published the documents in a photo database.
literature
- Martin Meier: Western Pomerania north of the Peene under Danish administration 1715-1721. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58285-7 ( limited preview )
- Joachim Krüger : An alternative to the Swedish land survey - the Danish lustration of northern Western Pomerania in the years 1717 and 1718. In: The Swedish land survey of Pomerania 1692 - 1709; Perspectives of an edition project; Contributions from the workshop on October 9th and 10th, 2010 in the Pomeranian State Museum Greifswald. Ludwig, 2011, ISBN 978-3-869-35050-9 , p. 71f ( Google Books )
- Joachim Krüger : Wolgast in the Ashes: selected sources on the lustration of the city in the Danish era (1712 - 1721) / Historical Institute Greifswald / Chair for Nordic History: Publications of the Chair for Nordic History; Vol. 8, ISBN 978-3-86006-295-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danish Imperial Archives Copenhagen (Rigsarkivet i København) Regeringskancelliet i Stralsund , Acta Lustrationis des Königl. Antheils Hertzogthumbs Vor-Pommern and Fürstenthumbs Rügen 1717 - 1718 Arkivnummer: 574
- ^ Danish lustration online