Salzwedel town law
The Salzwedeler city charter was a form of municipal law , which differ from the legal forms of the city Salzwedel was derived.
history
Salzwedel was first referred to as a city ( civitas ) in 1233 . Only one copy from 1273 received a town charter.
The origin of the Salzwedel town charter is controversial. It was mainly derived from the legal habits of Lüneburg , but was also influenced by Lübeck and Hamburg law. It differed from Magdeburg law in some legal practices.
In 1239, Perleberg , and around this time Lenzen , was granted Salzwedel town charter. Also Apenburg was awarded this in the 13th or 14th century.
literature
- Lieselott Enders : The Altmark. History of a Kurmark landscape in the early modern period (end of the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century ) (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives. Volume 56). Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2008. p. 799
- Gottfried Wentz : The old law of the city of Salzwedel. An attempt In: Franz Hartleb (Hrsg.): Salzwedel, the old margrave and Hanseatic city in the Altmark 1233-1933. Contributions to 700 years of city history . Salzwedel 1933, pp. 63-74.
Remarks
- ^ Salzwedel town charter of March 16, 1273
- ^ So Gottfried Wentz: Das Salzwedeler Stadtrecht , 1933. P. 70f.
- ↑ so Stephan: Die Vogtei Salzwedel , 2006. P. 270
- ↑ From the medieval history of Apenburg 1994, p. 10, entry of an older city charter in the city register of Apenburg under 1402.