Schöppenstuhl in Leipzig
The Schöppenstuhl zu Leipzig was an official jury of the Electorate and the Kingdom of Saxony .
The Leipzig Schöppenstuhl has existed since the Middle Ages . He found himself in criminal and civil matters and developed into a judicial authority, which means that subordinate local courts (mostly local courts) could obtain legal information from him or have judgments examined (conviction). There were several such judging authorities in the Electorate of Saxony in the 16th century (for example the Dohnaer Schöppenstuhl ). In the second half of the 16th century, the procedure largely prevailed that the local courts gave their court cases, in particular criminal cases, to the designated rulings before the pronouncement of a judgment.
Under Elector August , the Leipziger Schöppenstuhl was appointed the official judicial authority of the Electoral Saxony in 1574, which was available to all lower courts in the country in criminal and civil matters. Other Schöppenstühle were dissolved or merged with the Leipziger. Other ruling authorities such as the Higher Court (civil matters) and the law faculties in Leipzig and Wittenberg remained in place and could be used optionally.
The Leipziger Schöppenstuhl was also used by non-Saxon courts in Central and Eastern Germany. In the course of the state reform initiated in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1831 and the associated reorganization of the judiciary, the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl was dissolved in 1835.
literature
- Ernst Boehm: The Schöppenstuhl in Leipzig and the Saxon Inquisition Trial in the Baroque Age , Berlin: de Gruyter, 1942 ( partial digitization , accessed on March 13, 2011)
- Eberhard Schmidt: Introduction to the history of German criminal justice , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 978-3525181157 , p. 153 ( digitized version , accessed on March 14, 2011)