Statutes & Proclamations
Arranged Everyday Life
in Decrees · Edicts · Circulars
from 5 Centuries
- When poachers are just collecting mushrooms in the Weser district :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, on behalf of the pretext of collecting mushrooms while poaching in the Weser district (Höxter-Holzminden) (1768) - Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting the bad habit of seizure-drinking at the expense of the seized (1747)
- Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting price harassing of the brewers by the landlords (1745)
- Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, facing a “shortage of beer in several places of Our country” arisen from insufficient brewing prices because of further risen prices for cereals “by another raise of the beer price … until Easter of coming year” (1761)
- Fighting for good and protection of the environment I :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the increase of sparrow heads to be submitted (1749) - Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, ordering to use again wheat instead of barley as brewing cereals (1741)
- Coordination across the border :
Decree of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, postponing this year’s opening of the hunt in agreement with similar Royal Prussian and Electoral Brunswick decrees to September 12 (1799) - Decree of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, postponing this year’s opening of the hunt to September 16 because of belated harvest (1805)
- An extraordinarily rare Wedding Gift :
Decree of Heinrich Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the procedure of wedding celebrations (1604) - Down to the gardens outside Brunswick + Wolfenbüttel :
Decree, Renewed (and enlarged), of Louis Rudolph (1732) by Charles I, Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the poaching and the shooting of high and small game in the forest, hunting districts and preserves, but now, too, (1773) in the gardens (1773)