Öffnungsrecht Explained
Öffnungsrecht in the Middle Ages was the right of a liege lord, more specifically a territorial lord or protective lord, in the Holy Roman Empire to have gratuitous use of a vassal's castle, fortified house or fortified town as a fighting base in the event of a conflict (e.g. war or feud).[1] [2] It is a form of right of access.
Literature
- Christoph Bachmann: Öffnungsrecht und herzogliche Burgenpolitik in Bayern im späten Mittelalter. Beck, Munich, 1997, .
- Horst Wolfgang Böhme, Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner (eds.): Wörterbuch der Burgen, Schlösser und Festungen. Reclam, Stuttgart, 2004,, p. 193.
- Friedrich Hillebrand: Das Öffnungsrecht bei Burgen, seine Anfänge und seine Entwicklung in den Territorien des 13.-16. Jahrhunderts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Württembergs. Diss. phil. Tübingen 1967.
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Notes and References
- Christian Wille, Rachel Reckinger, Sonja Kmec and Markus Hesse (eds). Spaces and Identities in Border Regions: Politics - Media - Subjects, Bielefeld: transcript (2015), p. 100.
- Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy, Peter Starenko and Peter Wallace (eds). Politics and Reformations: Communities, Polities, Nations and Empires. Leiden/Boston: Brill (2007), p.8.