The legal constitution takes its name from Chełmno, the first town to obtain such law
Kulm law, Culm law or Chełmno Law (German: Kulmer Recht; Latin: Jus Culmense vetus; Polish: Prawo chełmińskie) was a legal constitution for a municipal form of government used in several Central European cities during the Middle Ages.
It was initiated on 28 December 1233 in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights by Hochmeister Hermann von Salza and Hermann Balk when the towns of Thorn (Toruń) and Chełmno (Kulm) received German town law, in particular as a modification of Magdeburg rights. Named after the town it was signed in, the original document (Kulmer Handfeste) was lost in 1244 when the town hall burned due to an attack by Świętopełk II, Duke of Pomerania. The renewed charter of 1 October 1251 was based on a copy in Thorn, but the rights were reduced.
This type of law was mostly granted by the Teutonic Order to cities within their monastic state, but also adopted by cities elsewhere, mainly in the neighboring Duchy of Masovia. In addition, the Kulm law was expanded, independently from the Knights, to a larger set of laws called Alter Kulm.
Kulmlaw, Culm law or Chełmno Law (German: Kulmer Recht; Latin: Jus Culmense vetus; Polish: Prawo chełmińskie) was a legal constitution for a municipal...
several variants, including Neumarkt-Magdeburg law (Środa Śląska), used extensively in Upper Silesia, and Kulmlaw, used in the territory of the Teutonic Knights...
Kulm is a German language toponym derived from the Latin culmen, meaning hill, and may refer to: Kulm bei Weiz, a municipality in Styria Kulm am Zirbitz...
rather than the Magdeburg rights. Danzig law German town lawKulmlaw Lübeck law Jean W. Sedlar (1994). Law and Justice. University of Washington Press...
him. In the years 1745 until 1767 he wrote Jus Culmense, the complete Kulmlaw (Kulmer Recht) and a collection of not yet published Prussian documents...
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the cities of the Teutonic Order State and Royal Prussia located under KulmLaw), Uniwersytet Gdanski, Gdansk 1989 (German edition, comment in German)...
were more favourable. In particular, the inheritance rules applied under Kulmlaw, which guaranteed inheritance also in the female line, resulted in the...
along with a city charter and a self-government, based on the then-popular Kulmlaw. The privileges, granted by Prince Kazimierz I of Oświęcim led to a period...
allowing the foundation of a new town each year, many of which were granted Kulmlaw. The crusaders began campaigning against the neighboring Pomesanians and...
Gymnasium in Toruń, and was partially responsible for the codification of Kulmlaw in Toruń. Janusz Małłek, Henryk Stroband (1548-1609). Reformator i współtwórca...
German-language surname from a status name originally denoting a yeoman according to Kulmlaw. It may refer to: Eva Schmidt-Kolmer (1913–1991), Austrian-German physician...
than half a century. It was rebuilt from 1364 to 1384, and was granted Kulmlaw by Winrich von Kniprode. After the Polish victory in the Battle of Grunwald...
the nearby city (since then called the Old Town), it was chartered with KulmLaw, and was governed separately until 1457, when king Casimir IV of Poland...
thorough reform of the economic policies of the principality given the German Kulmlaw to 24 cities including Czersk (1383), Ciechanów (1400), Różan (1403), Warsaw...
Woods. The oldest known records of Kabady come from 1386, when it received Kulmlaw rights from duke Janusz I the Old, ruler of the Duchy of Warsaw. It was...
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