Zeidelrecht
The Zeidelrecht is an older shelf that allowed the owner to keep bees and swarms of bees in their own or someone else's forest. The term is derived from the word "zeideln" ( cutting honey ). The owner, the Zeidler , was able to operate forest beekeeping according to his guild, because the bees, as animals of the forest, were owned by the respective sovereign and anyone who tampered with a tree occupied by honeybees could lose life and property. The first transfers of these rights are said to have taken place around 1000.
Zeidelrecht has not found its way into modern private law. The so-called bee paragraphs (§§ 961–964 BGB ) do not mention a right of Zeidel or a comparable right. Since the EGBGB has not explicitly repealed the Zeidelrecht as such, it is still in force as common law, but is no longer actually applied, since beekeeping is only carried out by beekeepers .
literature
- Achim Gercke: The right to bees. Sankt Augustin 1991, ISBN 3-922898-04-1 .
- Josef Schwendner: Manual of the bee law. Munich 1989, ISBN 3-431-03050-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Heinrich von Lang : History of the Principality of Ansbach-Bayreuth. Volume 1: 1486-1557. 2nd Edition. Ms. Seybold's Buchhandlung, Ansbach 1911, p. 35.
