Vörder register

The Vörder Register ( Registrum bonorum et Iurium Castri Vorde citra et ultra Oestam : Register of goods and rights of the Bremervörde Castle on this side and on the other side of the East) is a from the Bremen Archbishop Johann III. List of districts and sovereign powers of the Bremen Monastery commissioned by Rode von Wale . It contains no church rights. The Vörder Register was created between 1498 and 1500.

For the Vogtei Vörde , the Vörder Register lists, for example, the following districts: the Börden Oerel, Lamstedt, Mulsum, Bargstedt, Ahlerstedt, Oldendorf, Selsingen, Heeslingen, Sittensen, Elsdorf and Altenwalde, furthermore the large march district with the courts in the three parishes in the east, Grossenwörden and Horst, the court of Vieland and the land of Wursten. In these districts who held magistrate from Voerde court and from them flowed the office part of the Gerichtsbußen to. The register lists the individual localities within the Börden. The Vörder Register should determine the following five titles for these: the court rights, the number of farms, the treasury rights, the tithe rights and the landlord's ownership. However, this goal was often not achieved and gaps remained.

The document was written partly in Latin, but mostly in Middle Low German. Space was left between the individual entries, or even entire blank pages were inserted. This indicates that the plan was to continue and update the register. But that hardly happened at all.

The Vörder Register is now kept in the Stade State Archives and is in a good state of preservation (archive signature: Rep. 5b compartment 155 No. 2). Wilhelm von Hodenberg published a translation that was true to the letter in 1856. The Vörder Register is an important historical document for the area of the former Bremen Abbey. Many localities in the area were first mentioned here.

literature

Wilhelm von Hodenberg : Bremen historical sources. Volume 2: The Vörder Register. Celle 1856 ( digitized at GDZ ).
Wolfgang Dörfler: Rulership and national borders. The long-term efforts to draw the line between the monasteries and later duchies of Bremen and Verden. Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden , Stade 2004, ISBN 3-931879-14-3 ( Series of publications of the Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden , Vol. 22).

Individual evidence

↑ Heidemarie Gieschen: History of the Bremervörde District Court . On: Website of the Bremervörde District Court , from 2002; Retrieved December 7, 2011.

[1] Heidemarie Gieschen: History of the Bremervörde District Court . On: Website of the Bremervörde District Court , from 2002; Retrieved December 7, 2011.