Sheep treasure
The sheep's treasure was a cattle tax, which in some states of the Holy Roman Empire , but also in some other countries, had to be paid by the owners or keepers of sheep to the sovereign since the 16th century . This estimate was thus comparable to the cow treasure , which had been known in some areas since at least 1304, but it also burdened the poorer rural population who had no large cattle by applying it to sheep . The knighthood or the nobility and also the owners of manors who did not belong to the knighthood were often able to pay a flat rate to avoid the annoying counting of their flocks of sheep.
The sheep treasure was z. B. Introduced in the Landgraviate of Hesse to its Landtag in Homberg (Efze) in 1538. In England the tax was introduced by Parliament in 1549.
literature
- Sheep treasure . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 12 , issue 1/2 (edited by Andreas Deutsch et al.). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-7400-1245-8 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
- Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect . Volume 3. Leipzig 1798, p. 1331.
- Hellmuth Feilke: Shepherds and sheep farming in the Principality of Göttingen between 1616 and 1721 based on the treasury register. Quantitative analysis up to 1805. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-5643-3
- Friedrich Christoph Willich: Churfurstliche Braunschweig-Lüueburgische Landes-Laws and Ordinances of Calenbergischen and Grubenhagenschen Part brought into an extract according to alphabetical order . Third volume, Göttingen / Dessau 1782, pp. 132–135
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cow Treasure . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 2 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1985, OCLC 832567175 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - continued in the following issue).
- ↑ Hellmuth Feilke: Shepherds and sheep keeping in the Principality of Göttingen between 1616 and 1721 based on the treasury register. Quantitative analysis up to 1805. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-5643-3 , p. 17
- ^ Christoph von Rommel: Dietrich history of Hessen . Fourth Volume (Third Part, Second Section). Kassel 1832, p. 166
- ^ MW Beresford: The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep . (PDF) 1549