Eike von Repgow

Eike von Repgow (including Repkow of Repchow of Repgau or Repchau as well as Heiko ) (* 1180-1190 in Repgow; † after 1233 ) was the author of the Sachsenspiegel and thus shaped the history of German law.

Life

Eike von Repgow probably comes from a family schöffenbarfreien based and family estate in Reppichau. She was among the vassals of the archbishops of Magdeburg. The ancestors of the family were from Lower Saxony ostfälischem tribe.

In his youth, Eike von Repgow had received instruction by a secular priest or by learned laymen. Whether it is acted by John Teutonicus Zemeke is controversial in the literature. In the " Saxon Mirror " one recognizes knowledge of the basic rules of grammar. This suggests a stay in a cathedral school. Presumably it is the Halberstadt cathedral school (or Magdeburg ).

Eike von Repgow has remained alien to the urban life due to its rural origins. He traveled in the wake of noblemen and therefore has met the courtly life. A special friendship united him with Graf Hoyer von Falkenstein, who was also pin Vogt of Quedlinburg and probably lord of Eike von Repgow. This had a significant influence on the spread of the "Saxon Mirror". Overall, Eike von Repgow mentioned 1209-1233 six times in a document:

Thus Eike von Repgow got an insight into the rural, chivalrous and spiritual way of life, affecting sometimes the " Saxon Mirror ". He also had moderate knowledge in canon and Roman law. He received his comprehensive jurisprudence as participating in certifications, negotiations and court days at Count Hoyer von Falkenstein. Most likely, Eike von Repgow worked befitting jury service. Has not been established whether he held also a fixed Aldermen chair, as he appears in documents of several rulers.

After 1233, the trace of Eike von Repgow loses. His date of death as his grave lay are unknown.

Sachsenspiegel

The Mirror of Saxony was the first German law book and also one of the first German prose works. It is an attempt to record the law of the Saxons, to systematize and unify. Therein lies the great power of Eike Repgows, because until then land and feudal law was not codified and varies from region to region, from the common law out. The work was created 1220-1230 to close this is due to the fact that the peace of King Henry VII was mentioned of 1221 -. Provided that this was already in the primary plant. There is also no evidence that Eike von Repgow had the Sachsenspiegel originally written in Latin. At the request of Count Hoyer von Falkenstein he wrote it down on German. A primary business does not exist, but only later copies, which additives were added in the course of legal development. The work covers the areas of land rights and feudal law. Are unmistakeable in later copies influences of Roman and canon law, whereas the author consistently applied previously in his rhyme prefaces. Eike von Repgow represents the Sachsenspiegel the original form of two swords doctrine, ie the separation between the spiritual and church law, thus the separation of powers - a view that was echoed his contemporary Walther von der Vogelweide - and created the lehnsmäßige Ranking in seven army shields.

Saxon World Chronicle

For a long time Eike von Repgow as the author of the Saxon Chronicle. This includes the history of the world by the year 1230. Has a detectable resemblance to the " Saxon Mirror ", which led to such a conjecture about the author. In recent decades in the literature considerable doubt (cf. the dissertation ( 1972) by Hubert Herkommer to the tradition history of the Saxon Chronicle ) However emerged. Currently, it is assumed that the "Saxon Chronicle " was created in 1260 and refers only to the " Saxon Mirror ".

Memory

Monuments in Magdeburg, Dessau, Reppichau, Halberstadt and Falkenstein Castle (Harz ) are reminiscent of Eike von Repgow. Of Eyke - of - Repkow Square in Berlin ( Moabit ) is named after him. A marble bust of the scholars stood as a minor character on the side of the Brandenburg Margrave Albrecht II monument in Group 4 of the sculptor Johannes Boese in the former Berlin Victory Boulevard ( " Dolls Alley" ). It is located since May 2009 in the Spandau Citadel.

Reppichau, which describes itself as " Eike von Repgow village", has devoted Eike von Repgow an open-air permanent exhibition. It consists of panels and murals and signs, the quote from the Mirror of Saxony.

The city of Magdeburg and the Otto -von- Guericke- University of Magdeburg give the biennial change the Eike von Repgow price and Eike von Repgow scholarship to individuals who conducts research into the history and culture of central Germany and the territory the middle Elbe, especially with the historical region of Saxony have as a subject of history, legal history, the German or the social sciences, busy.

In Magdeburg, the building of the Justice Center ( District Court, Labour Court, Social Court, Administrative Court and Supreme Administrative Court for the Land of Saxony- Anhalt and Magdeburg prosecutor ) to Eike von Repkow is named.

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