Zentherr

Zentherr was the chief judge of a Zent .

The term cent comes from the Latin numeral centum and means one hundred . One cent comprised about 100 families. It used to be said that the term developed from the Germanic Hundreds (Centens), but such has never been proven.

Central rule was an early form of territorial statehood. The producers included in Frankish times especially with their own jurisdiction appointed territorial federations of hooves , resulting from jurisdictions in the area of Lower jurisdiction to institutions of higher courts had developed. The main court was the highest rural court. In its capacity as an administrative unit, the Zent also levied taxes, demanded compulsory labor, conducted escort services and recruited soldiers for military campaigns.

The central court rule went hand in hand with the regional rule or the sovereign appeared at the same time as the highest court lord (Zentherr, Zentgraf ).

See also

• Meckesheimer Cent
• Cent Heppenheim

literature

• Gerhard Theuerkauf : Zent and Zentgericht . In: Concise dictionary on German legal history . V. Band. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1998, columns 1663-1665.
• Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 16: Kitzingen. Commission for Bavarian State History , 1967. Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library. Vogtei and Zent as the main elements of territorial rule, p. 84 ff., P. 88 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Central Court website of the Heiligenberg Foundation , accessed on December 30, 2017
2. ↑ Uwe Uffelmann: Territorial Policy and City Foundation - The Lords of Dürn and their Heirs ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Badische Heimat 1988, pp. 285, 289 
3. ↑ Zent duden.de, accessed on December 30, 2017
4. ↑ Transmission of the Zentgerichte website of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, sources on witch persecution in the Wertheim State Archives, accessed on December 30, 2017
5. ↑ Melanie Julia Hägermann: The criminal justice system in the Electoral Palatinate territorial state. Developments in criminal justice in the Electoral Palatinate, presented using rural legal sources from four Zenten on the right bank of the Rhine Würzburg, Univ.-Diss., 2002, pp. 27 ff.