The fight for law
The fight for law. Historical novel from southern Burgenland , is a historical novel by Josef Karl Homma . The novel is set around the year 1700. Homma dealt with a conflict between the aristocratic manorial rule under Sigismund Batthyány and the privileged Pinkafeld market (see Pinkafeld's history ), power and intrigue games in the end of feudalism . The novel was performed several times, including in 2001 in the version dramatized by Christian Putz as part of the Güssing Castle Games under the direction of director Frank Hoffmann .
The work
The fight for justice is the author's only novel . Among other things, Homma was head of the archives and libraries of the Burgenland State Archives . As the author of numerous writings, which also dealt extensively with the history of southern Burgenland , Homma had extensive historical knowledge on the literary topic. Three years after the work was published, Josef Karl Homma became mayor of Pinkafeld, the main setting for his novel.
In the foreword to the novel, the author Homma writes: “The basics are taken from the Pinkafelder market and guild archive. The connecting act of Jost Schröckh is probably a free combination, but for the most part details from old files have been used to build it up. For reasons of propriety, individual names of acting persons were exchanged with other contemporary ones. The language is reminiscent of that of the time, but in the interest of more general comprehensibility, too strong a reference was avoided. "
action
Count Sigismund Batthyány had voluntarily confirmed the "old" privileges of the market when he took over the rule of Pinkafeld . On the basis of a contract that the count had signed in 1700 with four councilors , as representatives of the market, in Pinkafelder Castle , he cared little about these privileges such as free jurisdiction, grazing rights or the free wine trade. But the four gentlemen had betrayed the market with their signature, because they signed without the knowledge of the other citizens. They had promised themselves personal benefits from their signature.
Resistance to the traitors and the treaty spread among the citizens. Since protests by the count were of no avail, a delegation of Pinkafelder and Unterschützen citizens who also accused the count of violating privileges, presented to Emperor Leopold in Vienna, who set up a commission chaired by Bishop Kollonitsch to investigate the situation. During the delegation's stay in Vienna, which lasted several weeks, huge unrest eased in Pinkafeld. The ringleader of the "treaty betrayal", the rich and "deserving" councilor Hieronymus Grötschl, accused the former councilor Jost Schröckh, who was financially dependent on him and innocent of treason. Numerous defamations and intrigues ultimately led to Jost Schröckh being sentenced to death. Only the Count's intervention could still prevent the justification. The Count's Pandours intervened at the last second and saved the condemned man from the executioner in front of the assembled crowd on the Pinkafelder Judgment Hill.
Simerl Greiner, the son of one of the signatories, had asked the landlord for help. Sigismund Batthyány justified his intervention on the grounds that the conviction was illegal. Only he, the Count, could have pronounced such a verdict, since the citizens would have forfeited their blood jurisdiction privilege based on the treaty! Jost Schröckh became melancholy because of the events and took his own life. The fleeting and finally convicted of his crimes, Grötschl judged himself.
literature
- Josef Karl Homma : The fight for law. Historical novel from the Southern Burgenland , published by the printing office Oberwart, Oberwart 1933 performance .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the Güssing Castle Games ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Burgspiele Güssing, accessed on August 8, 2009
- ↑ Gottfried Pröll: In memory of an important Burgenlander (Homma-Renaissance in Pinkafeld and Güssing) on the homepage of the APA -OTS Original Text Service, accessed on August 8, 2009
