Great choice
The Great Arbitration is an agreement concluded in Cologne on June 28, 1258 between the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden and the Cologne citizenship, which had been preceded by disputes for years. The archbishop claimed sovereignty , the citizens their traditional rights of self-government.
The agreement, which was based on an arbitration tribunal initiated by Albertus Magnus , included a. Questions of the right to coin, jurisdiction and the delimitation of secular and spiritual courts. With the Great Arbitration, supreme judicial authority and supreme power were assigned to the archbishop. At the same time, the verdict also confirmed the municipality's right to self-administration. The consequence was that Konrad von Hochstaden could not enforce the desired sovereignty over Cologne and had to be content with the supervisory authority.
As early as 1252, a court of arbitration tried to settle the dispute over customs and coinage issues, the so-called Small Arbitration . The great arbitration lasted only a year, after which the archbishop again used violence against the citizens.
Several copies of the corresponding document are kept in the historical archive of the City of Cologne .
literature
- Manfred Groten , Albertus Magnus and the Great Schied (Cologne 1258): Aristotelian politics in a practical test . Lectio Albertina 12, Aschendorff, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-402-11193-2
- Dieter Strauch , Der Große Schied from 1258: Archbishop and citizens in the struggle for the Cologne city constitution . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20210-1
Individual evidence
- ^ Wording in: Rosen / Wirtler (Ed.): Sources for the history of the city of Cologne. Volume I. Cologne 1999, p. 173 ff.