Forest sovereignty

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The term forest sovereignty refers to the sovereign rights of the supreme state power with regard to the forest ownership.

history

Forest sovereignty as an instrument of power goes back to the royal forests in the early Middle Ages . In the Franconian Empire and later in the Holy Roman Empire, these forestes designated a usage area belonging to the king, which since the 8th century came into the possession of the nobility and the church . Initially, in addition to the exclusive use of the state forests, the sovereign rights related to the prevention of territorial expansion and the devastation of the state forests through the enactment of corresponding laws ( forest criminal law ). From the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century, the first regulations for a more orderly forest management emerged . After the Peace of Westphalia , in which the German princes and lords consolidated their sovereignty and took control of the forest , the first comprehensive and far-reaching forest regulations emerged.

See also

literature

  • Johann Christian Hundeshagen: Encyclopedia of Forest Science. Heinrich Laupp, Tübingen 1828, first department: forestry production theory ( digitized ).
  • Johann Christian Hundeshagen: Encyclopedia of Forest Science. Heinrich Laupp, Tübingen 1825, second section: Forestry trades ( digitized ).
  • Johann Christian Hundeshagen: Encyclopedia of Forest Science. Heinrich Laupp, Tübingen 1831, Third Section: Forest Police Textbook ( digitized ).
  • Adam Friedrich Schwappach: Handbook of the forest and hunting history of Germany. J. Springer, 1888.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Christian Hundeshagen: Encyclopedia of Forest Science. H. Laupp, 1828.
  2. ↑ Clemens Dasler: Forest and Wildbann in the early German Empire. The royal privileges for the imperial church from the 9th to the 12th century (= dissertations on medieval history. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001.