Court judge

This article deals with the historical profession of court judge. For further meanings see Hofrichter (disambiguation) .

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Court judges were appointed by the emperor from the nobility . They spoke right to court courts , the highest civil courts of the late Middle Ages . The court judge could be represented by a noble governor.

The judges, the court judges, were mostly elected for life by an electoral committee and were the highest officials in the imperial city.

The court judges ruled in the following cases:

Hofrichterhaus, Ortenburg Bautzen

• Creditors could sue against defaulting debtors, the court court could ostracize debtors and assign the debtor's property to the creditor. The court court sometimes ostracized entire cities.
• The court court was the court of appeal, dissatisfied parties from regional court proceedings could appeal to the court court.
• The court court had a notarial function, it notarized contracts of voluntary jurisdiction. Wealthy citizens and nobles had their wills, inheritance contracts, purchase contracts, barter contracts and gifts notarized by the court court. Especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, the court court was highly regarded for its notarial function.

An example of a court judge's house can be found on the Ortenburg Castle in Bautzen with the chimney from the late Renaissance that has been preserved. This building was temporarily used as a prison.