Kitchen council

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The kitchen council in Braunschweig , known as the Enger Rat since 1614 , was a permanent committee of the Common Council that was introduced in 1386 as part of the new constitution after the “ Great Shift ”.

The common council consisted of 103 people and was too big for regular administrative tasks. It was therefore decided to form the "kitchen council" from the members of the common council, which remained in office for a council period. The kitchen council met in the kitchen of the coin smithy , where coins were poured and struck. The supervision of the coinage was the main task of the kitchen council.

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Werner Spiess: The councilors of the Hanseatic City of Braunschweig 1231–1671 , Braunschweig 1970, p. 55
  2. ^ Kitchen council , in: Haberkern / Wallach: auxiliary dictionary for historians 1 , Tübingen and Basel 2001