Marriage certificate
The marriage certificate certifies a marriage .
In the Pierer Lexikon of 1857 it says that the marriage certificate is ... a certificate issued by a secular authority that there is no obstacle to the marriage of an engaged couple in civil or police respect; or a ... certificate issued by a clerical office that two people are really married. The former is known today as a certificate of marital status .
Because there were once only church weddings, the term is often used synonymously with the marriage certificate in social discourse . Since marriages legitimized by the state and not only by the church (in Germany since the Civil Status Act of 1875 ), the official bureaucracy in the German-speaking area sometimes differentiates between the church marriage certificate and the civil marriage certificate, but this distinction is not made uniformly by all German-speaking authorities .
Following the general decline in importance of marriage , the marriage certificate has also lost its importance in recent years. Nevertheless, the term is still present in literature, music (e.g. Udo Jürgens in the "Honorable House") and colloquial language , albeit mostly in the synonymous meaning mentioned above.
Until the 19th century it was also called the half-Latin copulation certificate , because copulation was understood to be the marriage ceremony.
Individual evidence
- ↑ marriage certificate . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 772 ( zeno.org ).
- ↑ Example: Rudi Wais: New maintenance right - the marriage certificate is not worth much ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Augsburger Allgemeine, November 5, 2007, as of November 6, 2007
- ↑ help.gv.at: Entry into the religious community , status: October 23, 2007
- ↑ help.gv.at: Glossary of Terms >> Marriage Certificate , accessed: November 7, 2006
- ↑ univie.ac.at: MATRIKENORDNUNG - Guidelines for the keeping of the parish registers of the Evangelical Church AuHB in Austria ( Memento of the original of November 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Departmental Library of Protestant Theology, as of July 12, 1999
- ↑ Registry office Würzburg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wedding certificate. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 45, Leipzig 1745, column 246 f.
- ↑ wedding ceremony . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 774-775 ( zeno.org ).
