Order against cursing

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The order against cursing , completely ducal Saxon order against the vice of cursing , was founded on June 11, 1590. Donors were the brothers in Saxe-Weimar, Duke Johann III. and Friedrich Wilhelm I. The order corresponded to a brotherhood. The purpose was to stop swearing, unnecessary swearing and lewd speech. The religious character must daily be worn and was a so-called religious dime . The penalty for violation was a payment of six groschen to the poor. A certificate from the foundation from 1591, the year the order was extinguished, is said to be in the possession of the library in Gotha . But it is without signatures. The authentication is said to have been carried out by Christian von Nischwitz (Neschwitz) from an important noble family as Electoral Saxon court marshal until 1587 and later governor of Wurzen , as well as by Gryphius and other nobles.

Order of the same concern

  • in Hesse with the same concern the Order of Temperance , in Mainz, also known as the Order of Temperance , on December 14, 1600, Landgrave Moritz zu Kassel , Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz and other princes, counts and barons joined forces to improve the pleasure of dining ( seven medals of beer or wine were allowed at each meal, but only two meals a day)
  • In the Palatinate with the same concern, the Order of the Golden Ring , the founder was the Count Palatine Friedrich II. 1524.

Both medals resembled the medal against cursing.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Verlag Rudolf & Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 199.
  2. ^ Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations . Verlag Rudolf & Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 196.