Land rule Hamburger Berg
In the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, the rulership of Hamburger Berg was an administrative district for the rural area of the Free and Hanseatic City to the northwest of the gates of Hamburg . It roughly encompassed the area of today's St. Pauli and Sternschanze districts , the southern part of Rotherbaum and originally also today's Neustadt before it was incorporated into the Hamburg Wallring . The namesake for the land lordship and later suburbs has always been something called “ Hamburger Berg“Called the elevation in the south of today's St. Pauli, about halfway between Hamburg and its neighboring town Altona .
The rulership was usually administered by the second oldest Hamburg senator (after the mayors), who exercised all sovereign rights on behalf of the Senate , levied taxes and duties and was responsible for the maintenance of streets and paths, churches and schools. Since he also exercised jurisdiction over the resident subjects, the sovereignty was sometimes referred to as "Jurisdiction" or (land) praetur .
At the beginning of the 19th century, about 6,700 people lived in the area of the land rulership, most of them in the core area of today's St. Pauli, while the sparsely populated area in front of the Dammtor only had about 1,200 souls.
In 1830 the sovereignty was dissolved as part of a regional reform. The majority of their area was included in the newly formed "suburb of St. Pauli", the rest in the territorial lordship of the Geestlande .
literature
- Jonas Ludwig von Hess : Hamburg described topographically, politically and historically, Third Part, Hamburg 1811.