Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
Title | Page 150 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_157.jpg |
Transcript | CHAPTER VI The Council and the Council House— Nuremberg Tortures Stadt Ein welter, fur Rath, Dei M fiirsichti^lich rt^iert Und alh I —Hans Sachs, Lobspruch der Stadt Nurnberg. WE have seen how in gradual and piecemeal fashion the Council, as representative of Nuremberg, acquired the character of an imperial state on an equality with the reigning princes and territorial lords. The special mark of sovereign power, the higher jurisdiction, was accorded in perpetuity to the Nuremberg Council through an edict of Frederick III., 1459. The Council was composed originally of such burghers as the community saw fit to elect. But gradually it came about that only the moneyed classes, large merchants, large land-owners, and court- officials admitted to the citizenship took part in the election, and that, within this cii\ . those who had already held office formed themselves into .. ally privileged group. So there resulted in Nuremberg, as everywhere else, the formation of town- aristocracy of those families eligible to the Council, which in Nuremberg particularly, where the original suffrage soon had to give place to the Council9! ri self-election, developed into the most pronounced ex- 150 |