Wooden dish
In the late Middle Ages and modern times, a wooden court was a court about wood or forest matters and the rights of use of the march comrades in a marrow forest . It was also called a forest court, forest court, grove court, marrow court, wooden thing, wooden thing, holting, holting, wooden or wooden court. His area of responsibility essentially related to "forest, water, pasture, path and footbridge". Sometimes it had the character of a community assembly ("Hengerath") to regulate local matters with certain possibilities of punishment for minor violations.
In the Westphalian Holzmarken , the wood count or the landlord of the Mark either presided over the court hearing or left the presidency to one of his officials. The Meier as assessors were also called wood judges in this function.
Relicts are still the reservations in favor of the state law in forest and field matters (see complaint court ), furthermore, to a certain extent, also the local courts in Hesse, insofar as they participate in the establishment and maintenance of property boundaries.
literature
- Sebastian Schröder: The wooden court - investigations into its social function using examples from North Westphalia. In: Nordmünsterland. Forschungen und Funde , 3, 2016, pp. 7–60.
- Wooden things . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 8: Hannover – Johannek , Eigenverlag, Altenburg 1859, p. 500 .
- Wooden dish . In: German Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 5 , Issue 10 (edited by Otto Gönnenwein , Wilhelm Weizsäcker , with the assistance of Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1967, OCLC 832566857 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - first edition: 1960, unchanged reprint).
- Georg Ludwig von Maurer: History of the village constitution in Germany . tape 2 . Enke, Erlangen 1866, p. 140–141 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).