Mill peace

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The mill peace or Mühlfrieden presented mills or the mill building in the Middle Ages under a special legal protection . The legal books of that time explicitly counted the mills as pacified, protected against any act of violence .

background

Destruction or theft of the grain or of the equipment of the mill were punished with particularly severe penalties, since the mills were of particular importance for the food supply of the population. The Sachsenspiegel , one of the oldest legal books of the German Middle Ages, for example provided death by cycling as a punishment for breaking the peace .

The mill peace granted simultaneously fugitives a safe stay in the mill building, similar to churches persecuted for temporary sanctuary could serve. People who had taken refuge in a mill were not allowed to be taken out by force so that the mill could not be damaged by acts of violence.

literature

  • Anselm Schubert : Anabaptism and Kabbalah: Augustin Bader and the Limits of the Radical Reformation , Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 9783579053721 , p. 135, Google-Link
  • Romeo Maurenbrecher: Textbook of the whole of today's common German private law, Volume 1 , Bonn 1840, p. 636, footnote 7 (leads there to Theodor Georg Wilhelm Emminghaus: De molendinorum sanctitate breviter disserit . Jena: Marggraf, 1758) Google link
  • Horna, Richard: On the history of mill criminal law in Festschrift Guido Kisch: Legal historical research. On the occasion of the 60th birthday offered by friends, colleagues and students, Stuttgart 1955, p. 87 ff.
  • Koehne, Carl: The law of the mills up to the end of the Carolingian era (investigations into the German state and legal history 71). M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1904.
  • Eduard Schulte: The trade law of the German wisdom , German law contributions, published by. Konrad Beyerle, Volume III, Issue 4, Heidelberg 1909, p. 341 ff. And p. 385 ff.
  • Sabine Stürmer: Mühlenrecht in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken during the 18th century. A contribution to the commercial law of a small German state in the Old Reich (legal history series, vol. 173). Lang, Frankfurt am Main. 1998.
  • Werkmüller (Ed.): Concise Dictionary on German Legal History Volume III, Chapter Mühle , p. 720f, Berlin 2008.
  • Wiemann, Harm: Contributions to the history of mill law, presented at the mills of the Crimmitschau rule from 14.-17. Century , 1948.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The mill trade , at http://argewe.lima-city.de Web link error on March 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Die Mühle , at geocaching.com , game blog , accessed March 25, 2018
  3. ^ Bernhard Großfeld , Andreas Möhlenkamp: The mill in fairy tales and law. To link business, culture and law . In Neue Juristische Wochenschrift , 1996, issue 17, pp. 1103–1111 text without footnote in bockwindmuehle-wettmar
  4. ↑ Mühle an der Laber , village board near the community of Sünching , district of Haidenkofen, accessed on March 25, 2018
  5. ↑ Hans Markus Thomsen: Once the miller was considered the greatest thief in the country , in: Die Welt , March 26, 2004