Mill shelf
As Mühlregal (of iura regalia = royal rights regalia ) were referred from the 9th century to the provincial or landlord attributable sovereign rights with respect to the construction and maintenance of water mills and their use ( mill right ). The windmills that emerged from the end of the 12th century were also included.
The mill shelf has been one of the manorial rights since the Middle Ages . The landlord was also the owner of the so-called mill ban law, which enabled him to forbid the construction of further mills in a certain area, so that a territorial monopoly was created.
In addition, through the so-called grinding or mill compulsion, he was able to oblige his subjects to have their grain ground exclusively in the landlord's mill, which was a compulsory use . For grinding the flour, the subjects paid the landlord a meal wages in kind , that is, by leaving him part of the grist.
In addition, the landlord or owner of the mill received a loan from the miller who received the mill as a fief , in the form of money or payments in kind, usually ground grain, but also other goods.
From the 13th century the town millers were allowed to join together in guilds (Strasbourg 1263, Worms 1281).
See also
Web links
- Peter CA Schels: Müller Small Encyclopedia of the German Middle Ages
- Anne-Marie Dubler: Millers and mills in the old state of Lucerne. Legal, economic and social history of the Lucerne land milling industry 14th to 18th centuries Lucerne Historical Publications Vol. 8, Rex-Verlag Luzern / Munich 1978. ISBN 3-7252-0324-5