City magistrate

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Administrative structure of the city government in the Middle Ages

A city ​​judge (Latin: praetor urbanus) was the name given to the medieval or early modern head of a city ​​court at the time when justice and administration were not yet separated in the lowest instance. In the early days of the cities, the sovereign appointed a mayor , who exercised the lower jurisdiction there in his name ( patrimonial jurisdiction ). With the rise and self-government of the cities, the administrative tasks were transferred to the city ​​council and the mayor . The mayor or city counsel or the town clerk wrapped at the same time the legal affairs of the city and was called in this function magistrates. The city council confirmed and notarized (if necessary) the resolutions (so-called city court).

The tasks were distributed to different people, the mayor of the city judge was superior, and the division in the city order regulated.

literature

  • Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia: from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order , Volume 3, Verlag Gebrüder Bornträger, Königsberg 1828, pages 489-493 Online version at Google Books City judges and / or mayor.
  • Emil Franz Rössler: German legal monuments from Bohemia and Moravia therein I. Volume The old Prague city law from the 14th centuries ; JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1845 Online version at Google Books Choice and order as well as relationship with the mayor.
  • Emil Franz Rössler: The city rights of Brno from the XIII. u. XIV century ; according to previously unprinted manuscripts. JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1852 Online version at Google Books Choice and order as well as relationship with the mayor.
  • Harald Heppner (Ed.): Slovenes and Germans in a Common Space: New Research on a Complex Topic, Southeast German Historical Commission, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56701-2 Online version at Google Books Educational requirements, relationship to Craft.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ernst Georges: Small German-Latin concise dictionary. Hanover and Leipzig 1910 (reprint Darmstadt 1999), column 2189.
  2. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 16. Altenburg 1863, p. 662.
  3. ↑ see List of Mayors of Freistadt # Mayors in the late Middle Ages