Treasury register of Celle
The Treasury registers the United Bailiwick Celle from 1438 is the oldest lüneburgische register of this kind. This official book records the tax benefit from the large bailiwick Celle , the southern and western parts of the Principality of Lüneburg , roughly in the area of the circles Celle , Soltau , Fallingbostel , and a part from Burgdorf .
The treasury register of 1438 was edited by Rudolf Grieser in connection with related sources in 1934 , which meant that the period from 1428 to 1442 could be covered. It is a source for both family history and the history of settlements and place names. It is also an important testimony to the development of the Middle Low German language. A number of farms that still exist today can already be identified in the treasury register.
Treasury registers are fiscal records created for the collection of taxes (“ appraisal ”), in which, sorted by place or parish, the taxpayers are listed by name and which therefore today represent an important source of settlement and population history. Since the 14th or 15th century, a cattle treasure register has been kept, which records the livestock on each farm.
See also
Edition and literature
- Rudolf Grieser, The treasure register of the Grand Bailiwick of Celle from 1438 and other sources on the population density of the districts of Celle, Fallingbostel, Soltau and Burgdorf between 1428 and 1442 , Hildesheim and Leipzig 1934 (reprint 1961)
- Farmer clans from the Südheide. According to the cattle treasury register of Celle from 1438 and the Celle cattle treasure register from 1589 , in Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde 1938, pp. 140–143