Trier fire book from 1563

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The Trier fire book from 1563 is the collection of reports from most of the electoral Trier authorities on the existing fire places in the sense of a fire place directory and the rulership of the individual, over 700 places. It is as archival documents in the State Archive in Koblenz (stock 1 C no. 12928) and was from the 2003 Koblenz archivist Peter Brommer edited .

The reason for the creation of the oldest preserved fire book, of whose predecessors only remnants are tangible, was the dissatisfaction of Archbishop Johann VI. (1556–1567) with the income from the land tax granted in 1556.

The fire book contains the reports of the offices of Hammerstein , Bergpflege , Montabaur , Balduinstein , Boppard , Gallscheidergericht , Oberwesel , Münstermaifeld , Mayen , Cochem - Ulmen , Wittlich , Udenesch , Daun , Manderscheid , Kyllburg , Welschbillig , Schmidtburg , Hunolstein , Baldenau , Baldeneck , Pfalzel , Grimburg , Saarburg and St. Wendel .

The extensively annotated edition of Brommers is the most important printed source of information on statistics and local history for today's municipalities of the former Kurtrier (mainly located in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate ), as the most important sources and above all secondary literature are named for each place.

The number of respective fireplaces generally corresponded to the number of households .

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