Red City Book (Hanover)

The Red City Book is a series of books by the city of Hanover from the Middle Ages , which is kept in the Hanover City Archives .

history

The red city book, also known as “liber civitatis” or “Stadt-Denck-Buch”, was so named because of its red-colored leather cover. The series of books mainly contains minutes of the results of negotiations before the City Council of Hanover, in particular cases involving voluntary jurisdiction .

The bound manuscripts were regularly updated from 1358 until 1430. Afterwards, they only contain sporadic entries until 1474.

The entries around the years are considered the beginning of the history of the city of Hanover

• 1491; handling Cord Borgentrick and the end of a siege by the troops of Duke Heinrich the Elder at Braunschweig and Lüneburg , as well
• 1534; describes the Reformation in Hanover (see also Dietrich Arnsborg ).

The last entry in the Red City Book was made in 1662.

History writing in Hanover

“The catalog for the Hanover exhibition gives a brief overview of the history of Hanover's urban historiography . City history in sources , chronicles and representations from the city archive and city ​​library , Hanover 1991 "

See also

• Siebenmännerstein
• City book

literature

• City Archives Hannover : Book series 8232
• Carl Ludwig Grotefend , GF Fiedler (ed.): Document book of the city of Hanover. First part. From the origin to 1369 , Hanover 1860
• Karljosef Kreter : City books and registers 1289 - 1533. Inventory of medieval bound manuscripts in the city archive of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 48 (1994), pp. 47–168, v. a. P. 80ff.
• Klaus Mlynek : Red City Book. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 526f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Klaus Mlynek: Red City Book. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 526f.
2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.): Foreword [Note 1]. In: Geschichte der Stadt Hannover , Vol. 1, From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century / with contributions from Helmut Plath , Schlütersche , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , online: via Google books