Dingstock
Dingstock (also Dinckstock and other historical spellings, derived from Thing ) is originally an old term for a court barrier, especially in the Low German language area. In particular, the phrase “the four thing sticks” is used in a figurative sense for the court itself, four trees or barriers delimiting the witness stand in open-air negotiations.
Since the beginning of the 17th century, another meaning of the term Dingstock has been documented for the Schleswig-Holstein area. This is a differently designed, cross or rod-shaped, mostly iron mark that was used to invite people to meet or negotiate with the farmer's bailiff as part of peasant self-government . The dingstock was passed on from farm to farm in a fixed order. If the transfer was omitted or delayed, this failure was penalized and noted in the breakdown register .
A dingstock could have devices such as a pocket or a split end into which written notices could be inserted and sent from neighbor to neighbor. Ding sticks were in use in individual cases up to the end of the 19th century.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dingstock . 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).
- ^ Silke Göttsch : Stapelholmer folk culture. Inclusions from historical sources (= studies on folklore and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein . Volume 8 ). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981, ISBN 3-529-02457-0 (also: Kiel, University, dissertation, 1980: Studies on folk culture in Stapelholm. ).
- ↑ Dingstock. Museum Association Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg e. V., accessed on May 22, 2013 .