Solstätte
A Solstätte , also called Soelgut or Hofessole, was in the Middle Ages and early modern times a yard or settlement of a court belonging to a court association in a city or in the country, with which certain rights and obligations were connected. According to Grimm's German dictionary , a solstice describes an indivisible rural good.
Such rights consisted, for example, in using the brand forest zur Hude and receiving firewood. New and new farmers did not have any rights to the common property of the Solstice owners. Agricultural farms in smaller towns and freedoms were often Solstatten, but there were Solstatten in other places as well. The duties included the obligation to pay the landlord taxes. The Solstätte was usually assessed with a higher tax rate (usually double) than the arable land.
Instead of the term Solstätte, we also encounter 'word' or Latin 'area'. For the use of the house, a certain sum had to be paid to the owner of the land, the so-called “word money” or “waiting pennies”. For example, in the 14th century in the Duchy of Westphalia, the Archbishop of Cologne can often be identified as the owner of the house, but also local monasteries and monasteries. As the amount stopped increasing, it became practically insignificant over time.
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Strangmeier in Zeitspurensuche.de, accessed on December 31, 2008 cf. also Heinrich Strangmeier : Waiver book of the parishes of Hilden and Haan , Volume 2, p. 436, Peters Verlag, Hilden 1970
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Meschede: Stadtwald - Von der Markengenossenschaft zum Stadtwald ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ University of Cologne (PDF; 2.1 MB) accessed on December 31, 2008
- ↑ Seibertz: Document Book Volume I, p. 599ff
- ↑ Olaf Goldstein and others: Mescheder Geschichte , Volume 1, Meschede 2007, p. 67.
