Seelgerätstiftung
A soul device foundation is the foundation of certain investment income with the purpose of holding a Holy Mass with the special intention of the salvation of the soul on a regular basis, for example on the annually recurring anniversary of the death of the founder . In medieval thinking, such a recurring prayer or sacrifice should help the “poor soul” to eternal salvation, as with a device. Through such foundations, considerable assets and land holdings have been transferred to the Catholic Church or to Christian monasteries and dioceses . In return, the church took on the obligation to hold services for the dead and vigils for the founder or the family.
Web links
- Atonement Crosses and Murder Stones Section Legal Uses
literature
- Paul Frauenstädt: Blood revenge and manslaughter in the German Middle Ages Leipzig 1881 (digitized online )
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 1: Mühlviertel . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1962.
- Lothar Schott: manslaughter and erection of the stone cross. In: Scientific journal of the Pedagogical University of Potsdam , 3rd year, 1957, Issue 1, pp. 47–53.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seelgerätstiftungen from 1379 and 1396. In Kleinzell municipality (ed.): Kleinzell in history and present. Kleinzell 1995, p. 72.