Village and community rule

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The village and community rulership was a legal circle of the late Middle Ages and early modern times.

definition

The village and community rulership (DGH) was a special area of ​​law in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , the purpose of which was to regulate the modalities of village and communal coexistence. The DGH played an important role in those regions of the empire that were very fragmented in terms of territorial rulership. Because in these regions the high judiciary was not the general basis of the sovereignty , but a conglomerate of different rights of rule . Within this legal conflict, the DGH was the most important criterion for enforcing state sovereignty over a locality, as was the closely related protection of parish fairs . The DGH played a particularly important role in the so-called condominium villages, i.e. those places that were administered as condominiums by several territorial powers, such as Fürth . As a rule , the DGH fell to the landlord who owned the largest share of a place. In some cases, however, it could also be exercised jointly ( cumulative ) or alternately ( alternative ).

The rulership of the village and community was associated with the following tasks:

  • the officials elected by the community had to be confirmed and committed
  • the preferential jurisdiction over the property in the direct possession of the community was to be exercised, this concerned above all the roads, the village green and the community forest ("to alleys, fields and corridors")
  • the municipal accounts were subject to an annual audit
  • the village legal system was to be supervised

literature

Web link

Wikisource: Dorffsordnung der Unterthonen zue Lehrberg  - example of a village order

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 98-99 .
  2. ^ Heinrich Weber: Kitzingen . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1967, p. 145 .
  3. ^ Walter Bauernfeind: City Lexicon Nuremberg . Ed .: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres. 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 221 . ( Online ).
  4. ^ Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Middle and Upper Franconia at the end of the Old Empire (1792) . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1954, p. 10 .
  5. ↑ Duncker and Humblot (eds.): Handbuch für Sozialkunde . Berlin / Munich 1952, ISBN 978-3-428-00573-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 12, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg with the Henneberg and Hohenlohe Lands at the end of the Old Empire (1792) . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1956, p. 17 .