Street pressure

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The road constraint stems from the commercial law of the Middle Ages . It states that certain merchandise could only be transported by the merchants on certain roads. The cities that were on these streets could then exercise their stacking rights . The merchants benefited from the special protection that these streets were generally under. One example is Via Regia , on which the trade fair cities of Leipzig and Frankfurt benefited from the constraints on roads.

history

Various measures were taken to ensure road constraints:

  • Milestones and signposts marked the prescribed roads, driving prohibition pillars were intended to prevent drivers from using the so-called “forbidden routes” (sleeping routes) away from the permitted roads.
  • Lords as those of Karlfried donned moat and ramparts to the costs incurred by avoiding the road ravines make impassable and therefore its revenue for Wegzoll secure and road maintenance.
  • Mounted patrols ( Überreiter , Überreuter , Überreuther ) controlled the “forbidden paths”, which were illegally used by so-called black gangs or paschers to avoid tolls. In the case of the Salzwege ( Goldener Steig , Linzer Steig ), these overriders, who were each supported by several footmen, were called salt riders . The twelve salt riders who were used, for example, in 1658 for the approximately 100 kilometer long border from Upper Austria to the Crown Land of Bohemia against the sometimes armed traders, were far too few to keep the smugglers from their illegal activities in the long term.

See also

Web links

  • Straßenzwang , Economic Encyclopedia (1773-1858) by JG Krünitz

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Kühtreiber : Street and Castle. Notes on a complex relationship , p. 286ff. In: Kornelia Holzner-Tobisch, Thomas Kühtreiber, Gertrud Blaschitz (eds.): The complexity of the street. Continuity and change in the Middle Ages and early modern times (= publications by the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. 22). Vienna 2012, pp. 263–301.
  2. ↑ Felix Manzenreiter: Mühlviertler Lifelines: Controversial Salt Paths to Bohemia. With special consideration of the 400-year-old salt trade conflict between Freistadt and Leonfelden. Bad Leonfelden 2013, p. 156.