Sundian Mark

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Sundian Mark (also: Mark sundisch ) was the name of an accounting currency , on the basis of which coins were minted and used in the north German Hanseatic city of Stralsund from 1319 onwards.

Stralsund received the right to mint in 1319 by Wizlaw III. , the Prince of Rügen . This initially assured the people of Stralsund that the Sundian Mark (the name comes from the location on the Strelasund , which also gave the city its name) should be valid as the only currency in Stralsund and the Principality of Rügen. The sundian mark was divided into 16 silver shillings (solidus), the shilling each into 12 pfennigs (denarius). On December 3, 1325, Wartislaw IV. , The Duke of Pomerania , who had taken over Stralsund after the dynasty of the Ruegen dynasty, confirmed the city's right to mint "for eternity" .

Soon, however, the Lübische Mark (the later Courantmark ) penetrated the area around Stralsund and was more popular due to its higher value (at times it was worth up to three times as much). In 1378 you got 660 Marks in Luebisch for 1000 Sundian Marks. The value of the Cologne silver mark in 1324 was 2.50 Marksundisch.

Stralsund also joined the Wendish Mint Association for a time in 1381 .

On February 6, 1403, Stralsund signed a ten-year contract with the cities of Lübeck , Hamburg , Lüneburg and Wismar , according to which the Stralsund mint was allowed to mint Wittenpfennige out of four Lübeck pfennigs. Of the hollow pennies struck, three should be worth as much as two people from Lübeck. In addition to the Witten, Sundic six- penny pieces or sextuplets , which are the Pomeranian large pennies , were minted in Stralsund . As early as 1406, Stralsund was no longer taken into account in a new contract, as the Stralsund people did not want to agree to the heavy monetary standard and the coin also delivered coins that were too low: the Stralsund money was badly broken.

On October 9, 1425, Stralsund joined a contract that had existed between Denmark and the cities of the Wendish Mint Association since 1424 .

In 1489, Pomeranian coinage was reorganized by Bogislaw X. He withdrew the right to mint from all Pomeranian cities. The exception was Stralsund, which only had to commit itself in the Rostock recession of 1504 to mint grist and grain according to the Duke and to operate the city mint only at the same time as the ducal, which meant the end of the Sundic Mint. Bogislaw X. had the Pomeranian gulden minted, which was valid for 3 marks in the Sundays.

literature

  • Heinz Großkopf: On the history of coins in Western Pomerania . In: Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania: the Demmin Colloquia 1985–1994 . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch (PUB) VI, No. 3891, 3893–3895, 3908
  2. ↑ Bernd Kluge: Of coins and money in old Pomerania . In: Henning Rischer (Ed.): Border region between Pomerania and Mecklenburg. Lectures 2004–2005 . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-935749-82-1 , p. 118 .
  3. ^ Heinz Großkopf: On the history of coins in Western Pomerania . Page 177