Donation Book

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In gift books predominantly by was donated acquired monastic property entered. They served to demonstrate the legality and thus to secure these properties. As a rule, these are copies of the original documents, not the direct entry of a note, as is the case with the traditional books, which are sometimes kept in minutes. To facilitate the administration of the property, documents from several centuries have been compiled, mostly in geographical order. The entries were kept up to date over a longer period of time.

Reichenbacher Donation Book

The Reichenbach donation book of the Reichenbach monastery in the northern Black Forest has been preserved in three copies: first the St. Paul manuscript (1099–1105), then the Stuttgart manuscript (1143–1152) and the Wibling manuscript (16th century). The latter, however, has been missing since 1963. The original text that has not been preserved was probably made during the time of Abbot Wilhelm († 1091).

Donation book of the Lorsch monastery

As was the case for Fulda , documentary sources about the land ownership for the imperial abbey Lorsch have come down to us as early as the 8th century. The Lorsch Codex , compiled in the 12th century, contains the names of over 1000 localities which are mentioned in it for the first time.

The places mentioned for the first time in the Lorsch Codex include Sersheim , Lohra , Neckargröningen, today part of Remseck am Neckar , Mannheim , Nauheim .

Donation book of the Hirsau monastery

The Codex Hirsaugiensis was created as an edited version of the Traditiones Hirsaugenses in order to obtain orderly access to the monastery documents. One of the personalities named in the Hirsau donation book is Konrad I of Württemberg .

literature

  • Stephan Molitor: The Reichenbacher Schenkungsbuch (= publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series A: Sources. Vol. 40). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013148-6 (also Diss. Univ. Freiburg i. Br. 1986).

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