Residence recession contract

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The Residenzressvertrag , also known as Residenzrezess for short , marks the beginning of today's capital city function of Hanover in the first half of the 17th century. The " agreement " was within the residence takeover of the city by the sovereign in 1636 as a one-page form and content will decree formulated against the fearing for their independence to the City Council had struggled in vain.

History and description

In the course of the Thirty Years' War , Duke Georg von Calenberg issued his unilaterally formulated recess as part of his residence on February 18, 1639 , through the signing of which by the city and the Duke mutual cooperation was regulated. The contract confirmed the already existing rights and freedoms of the city, its guilds , guilds and churches , but with the addition "if no abuse comes in"; a reservation by the prince that can be interpreted in the future.

By the contract, the city could initially its jurisdiction in " bürgerl. "And" pal. “Keep things. Excepted from this, however, were the servants of the court , whose number was expressly not limited. They did not have to acquire citizenship or pay any - city - taxes, although they were granted the right to brew.

The site of the former monastery of the Minorites was chosen as the site of the castle to be built, which until then had included the municipal armory , two poor houses and a boys 'and girls' school. In addition, 16 plots of land adjacent to the monastery grounds were expropriated.

Archival material

The original of the residency contract can be found in the Hannover City Archives .

literature

  • Hanover Archive . Supplementary edition , sheet 17
  • Siegfried Müller : Life in the royal seat of Hanover. Nobility and bourgeoisie in the Age of Enlightenment. Schlueter, Hannover 1987, ISBN 3-87706-281-4
  • Christiane Schröder: "... a great comet made a name for itself in the whole of the Roman Empire" - the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) , in Olaf Mußmann (ed.): Life apart from the front. Hanoverian everyday life in warlike times , published on behalf of Friedensbüro Hanover - Committee Peace Week and History Workshop Hanover eV , Hanover: Hahnsche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1992, ISBN 978-3-7752-5869-2 and ISBN 3-7752-5869-8 , p. 33-56, v. a. P. 47ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek : Residenzress (contract) , in Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.), Dirk Böttcher , Hugo Thielen (collabor.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 521
  2. ↑ Friedrich Lindau : The Herrenhausen Palace and its courtly environment , in ders .: Hanover - the courtly area of ​​Herrenhausen: the handling of the city with the monuments of its feudal era , 1st edition, Munich; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-422-06424-9 , S, 15–44; here: p. 15; limited preview in Google Book search