Court court Wittenberg

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The Hofgericht Wittenberg was one for the Kurkreis in Ernestine Electorate of Saxony furnished 1,529 own Hofgericht . It remained in the Albertine Electorate of Saxony after 1547 .

Its tasks and its constitution corresponded to those of the Upper Court of Leipzig . The court court was dissolved in 1814.

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  • Wittenberg as the city of law in the 19th century
  • Ralf Frassek: Marriage law and matrimonial jurisdiction in the Reformation period: the development of new legal structures in the Saxon area with special consideration of the history of the Wittenberg consistory, Mohr Siebeck, 2005, p. 62