St. George Brotherhood

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under St. George's Brotherhood (disambiguation) .

The St. George brotherhoods of the late Middle Ages were patrician societies that were involved in the long-distance trade of the Hanseatic League . Their creation time is before 1350. The meeting rooms of these brotherhoods were in the partially preserved today Artus courts of different Hanseatic cities in the Baltic region, especially in Danzig ( Gdansk , Artushof Danzig ), Elbing ( Elblag , Artus Court Elbing ) and Torun ( Toruń , Artus Court Torun ).

The brotherhoods that originally existed in Riga ( Riga ) and Reval ( Tallinn ) were merged in 1399 in the Compagnie der Blackheads or Brotherhood of Blackheads ; the former Artus courts became houses of the Blackheads .

With the decline of the Hanseatic League at the end of the 17th century, the brotherhoods also lost their function and importance; the exact time of their dissolution is indefinite.

literature

• Roman Czaja: Corporate forms of organization of the ruling groups in the Baltic Sea cities . Summary of the article from Zapiski Historyczne. Poświęcone Historii Pomorza I Krajów Bałtyckich Ukazują Się Od 1908 Roku , Volume LXIX, Issue 2–3. Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, Toruń 2004.