Marstallgericht
The Land- und Marstallgericht , generally called Marstallgericht for short and popularly known as Bauerrecht or Burrecht , was a Lübeck court .
Responsibility and Organization
The Marstallgericht was a court of first instance whose jurisdiction was the Lübeck territory outside the Torzingel but within the Landwehr . In civil law matters, its competences corresponded completely to those of the lower court , in honor offenses and criminal matters restricted, since it was not authorized to negotiate offenses punishable by corporal punishment or death penalty ; these were reserved for the Lübeck lower court .
The judges of the Marstallgericht were the lords of the stables , who were always the ninth and tenth councilors in the council hierarchy, who were also responsible for the administration of the area within the Landwehr. In principle, the parties to a legal dispute had to appear personally in court; Representation by so-called procurators was only permitted in exceptional cases and with approval.
history
The Marstallgericht existed from a time that can no longer be determined in the Middle Ages . Until the end of the 15th century, the lords of the Marstall were only the negotiators and determined the sentence, while the decision-making for this purpose was the responsibility of appointed and sworn residents of the land area. After that, the two councilors were the sole judges.
The Marstallgericht existed until the annexation of Lübeck by the French Empire on January 1, 1811, but was not dissolved immediately.Like the other old Lübeck courts of first instance, it met provisionally for a few months until the new legal structures were finally created in July . The regional court, which was newly established after the end of the French era in 1813, followed on from the old Marstallgericht in many respects in terms of area of jurisdiction and competencies, but was not identical with it.
Meeting place
The Marstallgericht originally met in the open air on the Koberg . From an undocumented point in time, but at least since 1552, the judges had a small building there. In the middle of the 18th century, the sessions were moved to the stables building, where they were held until the stables court was dissolved in 1811.
Burrecht
Built for the royal stables Men on the Koberg, as after the day ends there court Burrecht known building is on the city view of Elias Diebel to recognize of 1552: On a low two-stage base there was a pavilion with a square base and pyramidal roof , on top of which a Weather vane raised.
In 1696 the dilapidated court house was replaced by a similarly designed new building by the city architect Anton Petrini and received a statue of Justitia as a new roof decoration , which was probably removed after the Marstallgericht abandoned the cramped and uncomfortable conference location in the middle of the 18th century henceforth met exclusively in the stables building.
From 1758 on, the former court house called Burrecht was used to sell cow meat; During a renovation in 1799, the pyramid roof was replaced by a curved domed roof. In the following decades the structural condition of the Burrechts deteriorated increasingly. Demolition was suggested in 1835, and when the Danish King Christian VIII paid a visit in the summer of 1840, the dilapidated building was so ashamed that the citizens decided to demolish it quickly, which took place on August 24th.
In the course of a redesign of the Koberg in the 1990s, a reinterpretation of the Burrecht based on the historical court arbor together with a sod (fountain) based on a design by the architects Meyer & Fleckenstein in Hamburg was built in 1997 with funding from the Possehl Foundation .
literature
- Office for the Preservation of Monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , Volume I, 2nd part. Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck 1974, pp. 402/403
- Ahasver von Brandt : Old Lübeck courts in: Paul Brockhaus (ed.): Der Wagen , Volume 1963, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1963, pp. 34–46
- Martin Funk : The Lübische dishes. A contribution to the constitutional history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. In: ZRG Germ. Dept.
- I: 26 (1905), pp. 53-90; ( Digitized version )
- II: 27 (1906), pp. 61–91 ( digitized version )
