Pasture letter

The pasture letter is an important Bremen document from the 12th century.

history

In 1159, the so-called "pasture letter" of Bremen Archbishop Hartwig I regulated the delimitation of an area in the area of today's Bremer Bürgerweide , which was allowed to be used as common property as cattle pasture. The letter was handed over to a citizens' committee and is considered the first mention of an interest group from Bremen. As early as 1139, episcopal documents were written by a Civitas Bremen.

The boundaries were "lengthways from the water called Widel to the water Coclake and widthwise from the fixed border of the neighboring village of Utbremen to those of Schwachhausen and the Barkhofe (...)."

The unrest in the city, known as the uprising of 104 men , ignited the ownership rights of the Bürgerweide in 1530 .

A rear part of the area became the front part of the Bürgerpark in 1865 , another part the Bremer Bürgerweide.

Later, in the time of the Enlightenment , the term civil Pasture needed and then Bürgerweide . The Herdentor ( porta gregum ), the Herdentorsteinweg and the Sögestraße are u. a. Names that refer to the importance of the Bürgerweide.

The legend

Countess Emma and Duke Benno

One legend has it that already in 1032 the Countess Emma von Lesum (975 / 980-1038), last widow of the Earl of Lesum, Bremen citizens have given this area between then Utbremen and Schwachhausen was. In the saga it was reported that her brother-in-law Benno, Duke Bernhard I of Saxony (around 950 / 973-1011) (but possibly his son Bernhard II ) had determined that the donation should only include the part of the site Cripples could crawl around from sunrise to sunset. The cripple's head was depicted between the feet of the Bremen Roland .

literature

Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Herbert Black Forest: History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume I, Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .
Martin Specht: Investigations into the legal history of the Bremer Bürgerweide . In: Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen 22, Bremen 1978, pp. 199–215.

Web links

The pasture letter (certificate no. 49) in: Bremisches Urkundenbuch. Tape. 1, (Ed.) Diedrich Rudolf Ehmck , Verlag C. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1863, pp. 53-55. (Digitized version)

Individual evidence, notes

↑ The term Fedel Listening probably comes from Widel.
↑ The name suggests a shallow lake.
^ Franz Buchenau: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its Region , p. 71 ff, Bremen 2013, ISBN 9783955807894 .

[1] The term Fedel Listening probably comes from Widel.

[2] The name suggests a shallow lake.

[3] Franz Buchenau: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its Region , p. 71 ff, Bremen 2013, ISBN 9783955807894 .