Mühlhäuser Reichsrechtsbuch
The Mühlhausen Imperial Law Book is a legal book that was probably written between 1224 and 1230 by a member of the Mühlhausen Imperial Ministry .
History and content
It served to standardize the law in the Free Imperial City of Mühlhausen in Thuringia. In 49 chapters in German the criminal law, which applies equally to all city dwellers, economic, inheritance and family law as well as land and civil law and the court system, such as the annual appointment of a home guarantor , are dealt with. Together with the Schwaben and Sachsenspiegel , the Mühlhausen legal book is one of the oldest legal books of the German Middle Ages .
The Mühlhausen imperial law book was also important for the imperial city of Nordhausen and the city of Eschwege.
The original no longer exists. The two surviving copies are dated to around 1270 and around 1300. One copy is in the Mühlhausen City Archives, the other in the Nordhausen City Archives.
In 1923 Herbert Meyer translated the Mühlhausen Imperial Law Book from Old Central German into High German and published it. Meyer traces the Mühlhausen imperial law back to Franconian law .
literature
- The Mühlhausen Imperial Law Book from the beginning of the 13th century. Germany's oldest legal book based on ancient medieval manuscripts , edited, introduced and translated by Herbert Meyer. 2nd, improved edition. Weimar: Böhlau: 1934; 3rd edition. 1936. Reprints: Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, 1969. And: Cologne; Graz: Böhlau, 1969.
- Herbert Meyer: The Mühlhäuser Reichsrechtsbuch and the German history of city rights , Hansische Geschichtsblätter, 59, 1934, pp. 3–27
- Hans Patze : To the oldest legal book of the imperial city Mühlhausen / Th. from the beginning of the 13th century , Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, 9/10, 1961, pp. 59–126
- Georg Adenauer: Marriage and family law in the Mühlhäuser Reichsrechtsbuch , Univ.-Diss. Bonn, 1963
Web links
- Publications on the Mühlhausen Imperial Law Book in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
- Andreas Ranft , Christian Speer: ILC - Index Librorum Civitatum, Mühlhausen (Thuringia) Index Librorum Civitatum - Directory of the city books of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, as of May 10, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ P. Bühner: Mühlhausen - the castle, the counts of equals and the imperial law book. New considerations on the constitutional history of Mühlhausen in the first half of the 13th century and on the dating of the so-called Mühlhausen Imperial Law Book , Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity, 61, 2007, pp. 59-98 (dating after 1231)
- ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences : Law book, Mühlhauser Repertorium "Geschistorquellen des Deutschen Mittelalter", as of September 6, 2012
- ↑ Günter Körner: Das mühlhäuser Reichsrechtsbuch blogspot page "Mühlhausen - history and more", August 1, 2010
- ↑ D. Pötschke: New to an old dispute: What is older - the Sachsenspiegel or the Mühlhausen legal book according to the realm of law? Reflections on the Nordhausen handwriting of the Mühlhausen legal book , contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen, 27, 2002, pp. 162–169
- ↑ 1 O / T 8 c No. 1 a saec. xiii
- ↑ II Na, 6 sec. xiii
- ^ Herbert Meyer: The Mühlhäuser Reichsrechtsbuch from the beginning of the thirteenth century , Weimar 1923
- ^ KA Eckhardt: The time of origin of the Mühlhäuser Reichsrechtsbuch , German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 15, 1959, pp. 441–463. Digitized in the German Digital Magazine Archive