Landreiter (Landreiter)
The land riders were in Germany in the 14th to the 18th century in some areas of rule the administrators of a land rider.
history
In the 14th century, the Wittelsbachers created a new territorial structure in the ruling system of the Margraviate of Brandenburg as equitaturæ , a system that the Luxembourgers retained after 1373. The Landreiterei ( lordship ) in the Altmark, Neumark, Prignitz, Uckerland and Mark over Oder acted as an intermediary between the bailiffs and the margraves (see Charles IV's land book ). The country Reitereien led provincial governors (including bailiffs called), later called country riders.
Off Country riders end of the 18th century were in Brandenburg district administrators , who later as principal administrative officer of a German district acted or circle and top local officials.
See also: Landreiter as Landgendarm.
literature
- Lieselott Enders: The Altmark: History of a Kurmark landscape in the early modern period (late 15th to early 19th century) . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8305-1504-3 .
- Gerd Heinrich: Administrative structure 1608–1806. Mounted and circles of the Altmark, Kurmark and Neumark. Historical Atlas of Brandenburg. Publications of the Berlin Historical Commission at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin in 1967.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Assing : The sovereignty of the Ascanians, Wittelsbachers and Luxembourgers (mid-12th to early 15th century) . In: Brandenburg history. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 .
- ^ Lieselott Enders : The Altmark. History of a Kurmark landscape in the early modern period (late 15th to early 19th century) . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8305-1504-3 .