anja amend-traut constructing entire buildings and leave that exclusively to the master bricklayers of Lübeck and their journeymen.” ([W]enn kein Lübeckischer Maurer Meister von dene Travemündern ausdrücklich verlangt wird, geringe arbeiten und kleines Bauwesen zu Travemünde mit seinen Handlangern ohne Widerspruch des Lubeckischen Maurer-Amts unternehmen möge, der Verfertigung ganzer gebäuden aber sich zu enthalten- und solche lediglich den Lübeck. MaurerMeistern und deren gesellen zu überlaßen habe.)47 Thus, Stahl should not be allowed to perform his trade in the inner city area, but only in Travemünde, that was about 20 km away and which had belonged to Lübeck since the fourteenth century.48 On the part of the appellee Stahl, the willingness to cancel the legal dispute might have been motivated by the economic pressure on him. After all, he had to feed a family, and while he was not permitted to exercise the profession, he had learned he was forced to perform menial jobs at lower pay. The bricklayers’ guild, on the other hand, might have agreed to an amicable settlement of the dispute because it had to be assumed that the supreme court might share the considerations of the Leipzig law faculty, which, after all, invoked the Imperial Guild Ordinance which goes back to the Augsburg Imperial decree of 1731 and to the later imperial commission’s decree of 1772.49 Both imperial laws in many respects disapproved of guild ordinances, for example with regard to the mandatory membership in a guild, and thus inter alia facilitated access to crafts.50 The appellee Stahl also pointed this out: “However, everyone knows that the guilds were entitled to impose certain constraints only in craftsmanship or professional matters, without any bearing 47 Ibid., entry in the Special Records of the court file of 15 September 1797. 48 Already in the Lübeck letter of imperial immediacy of 1226, the Emperor Frederick II granted the City of Lübeck rights to Travemünde. In 1329, Lübeck purchased the settlement and the entire tract of land at the mouth of the Trave for 1,060 Lübeck Marks, thus safeguarding its important harbour against burdensome tolls imposed by others. For more details see Albrecht, Thorsten 2005. 49 Printed at Proesler, Hans 1954, Appendix C, “Reichsgesetze zur Regelung des Handwerkswesens”, no. 29. 50 More details on the prohibition of marriage under the Imperial decree of 1772 at Schichtel, Peter 1986. Art. 4 of the decree of 1772 cancelled the limitation of the number of apprentices and journeymen and permitted the marriage of journeymen, see ibid. p. 49 f. 89
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