Stralsund consistory

The Stralsund consistory was a judicial and administrative authority of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ( consistory ) in the city of Stralsund from the 16th to 19th centuries .

The consistory was founded in 1575 as an institution of the city of Stralsund. His area of ​​responsibility was limited to the city of Stralsund within the city walls, it was not until 1810 that the area of ​​responsibility was extended to the suburbs. This made Stralsund the only city within Pomerania that had its own consistory; the surrounding land belonged to the area of ​​responsibility of the Greifswalder consistory .

Members of the Stralsund consistory were a director, two councilors, the Stralsund superintendent, the first pastor of the Marienkirche and the first pastor of the Nikolaikirche .

In 1662 the consistory was expressly recognized as a court in what was then Swedish Pomerania . The legal process against decisions of the consistory went to the Stralsund council and from there to the Wismar tribunal , the highest court for the Swedish fiefs in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Stralsund consistory lost its administrative tasks in 1815 after the transfer of Swedish-Pomerania to Prussia as part of the reorganization of the consistories in Prussia in favor of the consistory of the province of Pomerania newly established for the province of Pomerania . The Stralsund consistory continued to exist until 1849, limited to its duties as a spiritual court.

literature

• Norbert Buske :  The old Greifswald consistory - 300 years of church jurisdiction. Appendix A. The other Pomeranian consistories, brief historical overview . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 76, NG Elwert, Marburg 1990, pp. 73-76 ( digitized version ).