Dinghof

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A Dinghof (MHD. Dinc-hof) is a larger stately Gutsbetrieb also Herrschaftshof mentioned. It was often administered by a Vogt or Meier and had the lower jurisdiction ; The annual courts were held on it and the taxes due were collected.

The establishment was mostly carried out by monasteries, which used it to organize their scattered church goods. In the case of secular owners, the Dinghöfe were usually called Herrenhof or Fronhof .

Word origin

The word component Ding comes from the Old High German ding, thing and was originally a legal word meaning legally established, regularly held (court) meeting . It is thus derived from the Germanic Thing .

The word component Hof comes from the Old High German hof . This ambiguous term has to be translated here as enclosed space, space . It is an administrative unit and not a settlement unit.

Dinglodel

The legal relationships of a Dinghof were recorded in a toboggan. Dingrodel was a common name for Weistum in Alsace and the Black Forest .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. Dingrodel . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 7 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar, Sp. 990 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1933 and 1935).
  2. ^ Anne-Marie Dubler: Openings. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland , accessed on January 14, 2020 .