Wimpfen town charter

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The town charter of Wimpfen was the law of the imperial town of Wimpfen (today: Bad Wimpfen ), which was codified since the 16th century and remained in effect until the end of the 19th century.

history

Imperial city

In the course of the wave of codification at the beginning of the early modern period , the imperial city of Wimpfen also had its rights regulated, recorded and printed. The printed edition appeared in 1544. This town charter was confirmed by Emperor Charles V on April 28, 1544 and again by Emperor Ferdinand I on May 24, 1559. In addition, the common law applied , insofar as the city law of Wimpfen did not contain special regulations for a matter.

Due to the ongoing development, the law had to be adapted again and again in the following hundred years. Therefore, the changes that had been made in the meantime were “made public to the citizens” in 1666 - but apparently did not appear in print. Emperor Charles VI. decreed another revision on December 7, 1731, but the original law of 1544 was to be retained. The revision process spanned more than 40 years. It was not completed until 1775. In terms of content, the innovations were closely based on the land law of the County of Hohenlohe , some of which were taken literally. This version from 1775 apparently did not initially appear in print either. It was only more than 50 years later that Wilhelm von der Nahmer published extracts from them. In doing so, he used a copy written by the “Court Court Archives that I shared with me” as a template.

Hesse

In 1803, after a brief interlude in Baden ownership, Wimpfen fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which became the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 . In Wimpfen, the 1775 version of the city law continued to apply as a particular law . It retained its validity and throughout the 19th century during the affiliation of the territory of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

scope

The Wimpfen city law was valid in

The area of ​​Wimpfen was - in relation to the rest of the Grand Duchy of Hesse - an exclave and was itself distributed over four non-contiguous areas. This also included two areas in which city law did not apply:

literature

expenditure

  • [Council of the Imperial City of Wimpfen]: Reformation of order, the origins of the elderly and rights, also several new statutes of the Wympffen branch . Johann Petreius, Nuremberg 1544.
  • Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of the Rhenish Particular Law . Vol. 2. Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1831/32, pp. 1044-1240.

Secondary literature

  • Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of the Rhenish Particular Law . 3 volumes. Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1831–1832.
  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Zimmerhofer Feld was uninhabited. The responsible district court in Wimpfen was also not aware of a single case in which the special law had been applied there. At the same time, the possibility of theoretical application was an excellent opportunity for contemporary lawyers to fill in footnotes in specialist literature (Schmidt. P. 111, note 57).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [Council of the Imperial City of Wimpfen]: Reformation .
  2. ↑ Schmidt, p. 81.
  3. ^ Schmidt, p. 82.
  4. ↑ Von der Nahmer, Vol. 1, p. 86.
  5. ↑ Von der Nahmer, Vol. 1, p. 86.
  6. ↑ Von der Nahmer, Vol. 1, p. 87.
  7. ↑ Schmidt, pp. 81, 83.
  8. ↑ Von der Nahmer, Vol. 2, pp. 1044-1240. For the parts not printed there, von der Nahmer gives a rough table of contents in Vol. 1, pp. 87-89.
  9. ↑ Von der Nahmer, Vol. 1, p. 87.
  10. ↑ Schmidt, p. 112.
  11. ↑ Schmidt, p. 112.
  12. ^ Schmidt, map.
  13. ↑ Schmidt, p. 17.
  14. ^ Schmidt, p. 111, map.