Birk ( biærk , berck , byrck ) was during the Scandinavian Middle Ages the name for a demarcated area, especially a town or a market place , with its own laws and privileges.
4-869: [REDACTED] Look up birk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Birk may refer to: Birk (market place) , a demarcated area with its own laws and privileges, the Bjarkey laws Reykjavík Airport 's ICAO code "BIRK" Birk (name) , a given name and surname Birk , the German name for Petelea Commune, Mureș County, Romania See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "birk" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Birk All pages with titles containing Birk Berk (disambiguation) Birks (disambiguation) Burk (disambiguation) Burke (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
8-496: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Birk (market place) In Denmark , the name was used for areas were exempted from the ordinary jurisdictions of the hundreds and the towns. There were royal, ecclesiastical and aristocratic birks with their own law courts and birk assemblies . After the Protestant Reformation , the ecclesiastical birks passed to
12-578: The king. The royal birks were after some time abolished, but more and more aristocratic ones were established, where the aristocratic landlord (the patronus) appointed birk judges, birk bailiffs , and birk notaries . The aristocratic birk privilege (known by the same name as Bjarkey laws , birkerett ) was reduced in 1809 and it was completely abolished in 1849. The term birk was to endure for some time, however. In Norway, some counties, baronies and noble estates also had birk privileges, but they were abolished in 1821. Some scholars have proposed that
16-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Birk . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Birk&oldid=1191454956 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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