Dohnaer Schöppenstuhl
The Dohnaer Schöppenstuhl (Scanatis Donensis) was a Schöppenstuhl attested to since 1390 and until 1572 gave legal instruction in feudal and inheritance matters beyond the borders of Saxony .
founding
Court cases involving the third pfennig have already been documented in 1139. When the Schöppenstuhl was founded is unknown. The burgraves of Dohna, as feudal lords of numerous vassals and owners of the coin rack (see Dohna bracteates ), writing by God's grace , probably also founded the Dohna Schöppenstuhl, a jury that did not meet at regular intervals, but made decisions on a case-by-case basis.
Burgrave period
The Burgraves of Dohna were responsible for the royal judiciary in the Burgraviate. The burgraves took over the chairmanship of the Schöppenstuhl, noble vassals were the assessors . In this composition the court existed until the conquest of the burgraviate of Dohna and the expulsion of the burgraves in 1402 by the margrave of Meissen, Wilhelm the One-Eyed .
In a legal opinion by the burgraves, which is said to have been in the Milichsche Library in Görlitz , reference is made to the legal basis of the Schöppenstuhl in a judgment with the words Do we speak Schöppen zu Donnenn according to the common sixth law . The judgments from the burgrave's time often begin with Wyr Otto heyde Jeschko and Jan gebrudere burggrauen zcu Donyn ... and others mostly with We otto Jeschko heyde and Jon ... and the final formula was usually: Hy off, we speak czu right and know better.
The originals of the scooping sayings given in the literature, presided over by the burgraves, were in the Görlitz council archive and are considered a war loss.
In the Dohna nursing home and in the Pirna office
After the burgraviate of Dohna was incorporated into the margraviate of Meißen , the famous Dohnaer Schöppenstuhl continued to exist. The chairmanship of the court was now taken over by the bailiffs of the Margraves of Meißen, who lived at Dohna Castle until they moved to Pirna . The noble assessors called themselves the "Mannen zu Donin". In the event that the Vogt of the Dohnische Pflege could not take over the chairmanship, the men at Dohna elected a chairman from their midst, who was called a captain.
The judgments begin:
We team (or men) to Donin (or the Dohnische care , in the care to Dohnin ) are asked right in these transcribed words and conclude that we men of the Dohnische care for right and do not know better .
In the Schöppensprüchen of the 16th century, the men of the Dohnische care and the undersealing captain of the team are replaced by the Schöppen zu Dohna or prescribed electoral Schöppen zu Dohna . In the end, the location of Donin has also disappeared and the personal closing formulas have been replaced by general ones: by law, our islands are sealed.
A decree by King Ferdinand I of Bohemia in 1541 restricted the appellation to Dohna. Lien goods trials are to be brought to the zu Dohna and trials for hereditary goods to the zu Magdeburg ( Magdeburg Schöffenstuhl ) for decision.
Association with the Leipziger Schöppenstuhl
In the end, the Schöppenstuhl only existed by name. When the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl, founded in 1420, was renewed in 1572, Elector August von Sachsen combined the Dohna Schöppenstuhl with the Leipziger, which in 1574 became the official judging authority of the Electoral Saxony .
Meeting place
The assumption that the Schöppenstuhl was moved from the castle to the city after the capture of Dohna Castle is popular opinion. Accordingly, the Ratskeller, Am Markt 1, is called the place where the Schöppengericht is said to have met. The Ratskeller, a former burggraves' Vorwerk , corresponds in its current form to the renovation after the great city fire of 1609, in which only the ground floor with the Gothic vault is left, and the extension from 1934.
literature
- Georg hose: The Schöppenstuhl zu Dohna , in: NASG, vol. 26, p. 209, Dresden 1905 ( digitized )
- Georg hose: 30 more Dohnische Schöppensprüche , in: NASG, vol. 28, p. 321, Dresden 1907 ( digitized )
- Max Winkler and Hermann Raußendorf: The burgrave town of Dohna . In: Messages from the Saxon Homeland Security Association . Volume 25, items 1-4, Dresden 1936 ( data set of the German National Library ).
- Christine Klecker: How Dohna was lost . Weesenstein Castle Museum, 1991
- H. Lilge: The Schöppenstuhl zu Dohna , Dresden 1940
- Author collective with Werner Coblenz: Historischer Führer Bezirke Dresden, Cottbus , page 118: Dohna. Urania-Verlag Leipzig – Jena – Berlin, Leipzig 1982
- Christian Bartsch. History of the old castle and Städgens Dohna. Dresden / Leipzig 1735 ( digitized version ) therein: Schöppenstuhl, p. 8
- Dohna . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 1st volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1814, p. 756. Therein: Schöppenstuhl
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See collective of authors with Werner Coblenz: Historischer Führer Bezirke Dresden, Cottbus , page 118: Dohna. Urania-Verlag Leipzig – Jena – Berlin, Leipzig 1982
- ↑ Cf. Georg Schlauch: Der Schöppenstuhl zu Dohna , in: NASG, vol. 26, p. 213, Dresden 1905 ( digitized version )
- ↑ See Georg hose: 30 more Dohnische Schöppensprüche , in: NASG, vol. 28, p. 323, Dresden 1907 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Cf. Georg Schlauch: Der Schöppenstuhl zu Dohna , in: NASG, vol. 26, p. 220, Dresden 1905 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Cf. Georg hose: The Schöppenstuhl zu Dohna , in: NASG, vol. 26, p. 228, Dresden 1905 ( digitized version )
- ↑ See Main State Archive Dresden: Schöppenstuhl zu Leipzig ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
