Smoking chicken

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The Rauchhuhn referred to the tax in the form of a chicken , which was measured according to the smoke , i.e. the stove of the family or household , which was also generally referred to as smoking money.

So decided z. B. Bishop Albrecht I of Halberstadt and his cathedral chapter in 1322 that the citizens of Aschersleben did not have to pay the usual tithe from the fields that were only to be dug up and not plowed , but only the so-called smoke chicken.

Depending on the season of the due date and the purpose, the terms Carnival chicken, Feuerstätthuhn, Domestic chicken, Herdhuhn, Hofstatthuhn, Kindbetthuhn, Rauchfall, Rauchhahn have been used.

Comparable Laudemnia or Laudemnial taxes were z. B. in Prussia legally possible until 1848.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rauchhuhn. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 14 : R - skewness - (VIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1893 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ^ Heinrich Gottfried Philipp Gengler : Codex Juris Municipalis Germaniae Medii Aevi: Regests and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages . F. Enke, Erlangen 1867, p. 967.
  3. ↑ Rauchhuhn . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 11 , issue 1/2 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-7400-0991-8 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).