Lounge Society (Ulm)
As a patrician society, the Stubengesellschaft zu Ulm united exclusively patrician families who were able to advise .
In the late Middle Ages, three main political forces faced each other in the city:
- The patricians who gathered in the “upper room” of the town hall, after which they named themselves “room society”.
- The wholesalers and long-distance traders united in the numerically not very large, politically and economically influential merchants' guild , who had to undertake not to sell goods in detail ("by yardstick and weight"). Together with the Kramers , they had their own social bar , the "lower room".
- All other tradespeople and craftsmen who were organized in one of the guilds , of which ten and their guild masters were first mentioned in a document as early as 1292; these usually gathered in pubs.
In the constitutions of the "Oaths" of 1345, 1397 and 1558 not only the election to the city council and the distribution of seats between patricians and guilds were regulated, but the patricians only defined themselves as a closed separate estate. Since the Great Oath of 1397 the guilds determined their representatives in the Small and Grand Councils by election; in both committees they had a majority over the patricians.
The governing mayor of Ulm, who was elected for one year and was publicly sworn in on the day of the oath , was a regular member of the patriciate.
In order to distinguish themselves from the citizens of the guilds, 17 families were raised to the hereditary nobility by Emperor Charles V in 1552 . Mindful of exclusivity and the preservation of their privileges, the patricians were reluctant to accept new families that had been ennobled by the emperor. On the other hand, bourgeois notables - z. B. Professors of the grammar school and wealthy members of other guilds - accepted into the room society .
Patrician families who belonged to the parlor society by 1400 at the latest included:
- Better (from Thalfingen)
- Ehinger
- Gassold
- Krafft (from Dellmensingen)
- Dear
- Löw
- Neidhardt, Neidhart or Neithart
- Neubronner
- Roth (from Schreckenstein)
- Schad (from Mittelbiberach)
- Schermar
- Strolin
Web links
- Catalog of the Ulm City Archives (PDF file; 4.37 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ This, by the way, in perfect analogy to Geislingen an der Steige , where the old town hall was also built by the imperial city of Ulm in 1422, cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
