• addition, there were regional terms for such courts; for example, the Gogericht in Saxony; the Freigericht in Westphalia, the Hesse and southwest Germany;...
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    of Bergen and Wietzendorf were part of a united juridical district or Gogericht. From 1437 to 1852, the courts were presided over by judges known as Gografen...
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    surnames) was a title and function taken by judges presiding over a so-called Gogericht, which was part of the local jurisdiction mainly in the formerly Saxon...
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  • later he became a judge and Gograf (presiding judge) in the greatest Gogericht (regional court) of Münster. In fall 1533 Jan van Leiden visited him,...
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  • a few wall remains and banks visible. At the castle is a 600-year-old Gogericht lime tree, which used to be the site of a regional court. Bernhard Brönner:...
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    Northhornon. About 1180, the Counts of Bentheim acquired the Nordhorn Gogericht (regional court). They built a castle in the middle of the river Vechte...
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    (Gogerichtslinde), which used to act as the site of a regional magistracy or Gogericht. 1850 sketch of the ruins The ruins in 1905 Floor plan of the Limburg...
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    Waldeck. From then Heringhausen belonged to the Eisenberg Office, to the Gogericht Flechtdorf and the free-seat Schweinsbühl. The reformation was introduced...
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