Thing chair
A court chair or a place of jurisdiction was referred to as a thing chair , later also a court or administrative district.
For example, in the Electorate of Cologne and in the neighboring Duchy of Jülich, administrative districts below the official level were called Dingstühle . The name was particularly widespread in the Eifel and around Bonn .
Dingstuhl ( last castle : Dënzelt) is also called a Gothic courthouse in Echternach .
literature
- Thing chair . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 7 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1933 and 1935).