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Reference to the Regenbirgische certificate at the church St. Laurentius in Mintard , Mülheim an der Ruhr, still with the age indication "873"

The Regenbirgische Urkunde is a presumed falsification of an early medieval document that was probably made around 1200 . The certificate, supposedly from the year 873 or 874, was in the "Gerresheim" holdings of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives , Rhineland department , until 1965 . It has been lost since then. But there is a photo in the photo archive in Marburg .

content

“Regenbirg, the first abbess of Gerresheim , donates goods belonging to her to the (nuns) convent of her monastery, as well as taxes that five of the towns and churches listed have to pay. They are located in (1) Linz, (2) (Duisburg-) Meiderich , (3) Sonnborn , (4) Mintard and (5) Pier. "

- Photo archive of the Philipps University of Marburg

The document is not dated. It doesn't have a seal either .

reception

The document was long considered to be early medieval, for example by Theodor Joseph Lacomblet , the publisher of the Lower Rhine documents, who in 1840 dated the document stored in the Düsseldorf State Archives to the year 874. Since 1909, doubts about the authenticity of the document have increased. The historian and archivist Erich Wisplinghoff , known for his strict source criticism, then assessed the Regenbirgische Urkunde as a forgery without a real core from the alleged time of origin for reasons of form and content. This assessment has been widely accepted since then. The certificate has been re-edited since 1994. According to the historian Brigide Schwarz , the purpose of the forgery was to strengthen the claims of the convent in the long-standing dispute between the convent and the abbess of Gerresheim in the 12th century over rights and shares in the monastery property. There is still no complete consensus about the late dating of the Regenbirgische document. Further investigations into this question are made difficult by the fact that the original has been missing since 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipps University of Marburg, Institute for Medieval History and photo archive of older original documents (Neg. E 4576).
  2. ↑ Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Cleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries Elten, Essen and Werden [...] Ed. By Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, vol. 1–4, Düsseldorf 1840–1858, reprint Aalen 1966. Vol. 1: 779–1200, no. 68.
  3. ↑ Cf. introduction to the new edition in: Rheinisches Urkundenbuch. Older documents up to 1100. Vol. 1–2, edit. by Erich Wisplinghoff, editor: Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen u. a. (= Publications of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde 57), Düsseldorf 1972, 1994, here: Vol. 2, No. 178 pp. 69–71; to Brigide Black : The parish church of Mintard in the Middle Ages: Church - parish - priests. In: Journal of the Mülheim ad Ruhr history association. Issue 92, 2017, pp. 11–69 (commentary, pp. 14–19; diplomatic analysis and translation, pp. 39–45).
  4. ↑ The proof was provided by Hugo Weidenhaupt : Das Kanonissenstift Gerresheim 870–1400. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 46, 1954, pp. 1–120, here: pp. 26–35.
  5. ↑ Sebastian Sasse: The age of the village church in Mintard was probably cheated, in: WAZ from December 26, 2018 .