Lehnschulze
A Lehnschulze or Erbschulze was a Schultheiß (also Schulte or Schulze), who owned a hereditary fief that was connected with his office , usually the largest farm in town - the Schulzenhof .
Office and court were indivisible and were awarded jointly by the landlord . The Lehnschulze - often the locator or his descendants - owned court and office hereditary and could not be elected or replaced by either the court lord or the village community. Upon the death of a fiefdom, office and court were passed on to his eldest male descendant; if there was no such thing, the eldest daughter's husband inherited.
The Lehnschulze was normally exempt from the usual peasant burdens and was therefore also referred to as a Freischulze .
Footnotes
- ^ Heinrich Kaak: The Brandenburg village as a scene of social and economic developments (15th to 19th centuries) ; P. 2
- ^ Hermann Aurich: The Bergsdorfer Lehnschulzenfamilie Schreyer (Märkische country seats of the Berlin bourgeoisie)
literature
- German legal dictionary (DRW) : Lehnschulze
- Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect, F - L, column 1976
- Hans K. Schulze: Settlement, Economy and Constitution in the Middle Ages: Selected essays on the history of Central and Eastern Germany. Böhlau, Cologne, 2006, ISBN 3-412-15602-7 , p. 218