Interest master
Zinsmeister (or lat. Censuarius or magister censuum ) was the official name of a friar or converse which for the collection of receivables due to the convent interest and gradient was responsible.
He lived in the monastery, was an assistant to the cellarar , worked under his supervision and had to be able to draw up accounts. Its tasks consisted not only in collecting the interest due to the convention , but also in the detailed listing, with place, interest payers and date, of the individual interest claims, receipts and outstanding debts. This list was to be submitted to the Bursar or Cellerar so that the Convention was informed at all times of all debts that were at risk, and the interest income was to be handed over to the Bursar or Cellerar immediately upon receipt in order to prevent fraud or suspicion.
Interest payers who were far away from the monastery could deliver their payments to nearby town yards or cellars . The ministerials who were in office there and who received the interest , however, were not tax masters.
literature
- Guido Gassmann: Conversations in the Middle Ages; An investigation based on the nine Swiss Cistercian abbeys. (Dissertation, Friburg, 2012) LIT Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-80161-6
- Friedrich Back: The Ravengirsburg monastery and its surroundings. Hölscher, Koblenz 1841, p. 58
- Oskar Schär: The Fraubrunnen Monastery . In: Bern journal for history and local history. Volume 17, 1955, p. 182
- Interest master. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 31 : Z-Zmasche - (XV). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1956 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).