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Name: Dithmarschen Peasant Republic

Type: Polity

Start: 1448 AD

End: 1559 AD

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From the 13th century up to 1559 Dithmarschen was an independent peasant republic within the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the Hanseatic League.

Establishment

  • January 1448: In 1447 the Dithmar Landrecht was recorded. A supreme court was created with 48 judges appointed for life (forty-eight judges). These developed into the actual self-governing body of the emerging farmers' republic of Dithmarschen.

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    Disestablishment

  • January 1560: The peasants of Dithmarschen were defeated by Danish-Schleswig-Holstein troops under General Johann Rantzau and lost their freedom.

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