Stolgeld also Stoltaxe and Stolgebühr (stole fees)

Fixed amounts formerly due to local clergy and church personnel – such as organists, sextons, parish secretaries in large city parishes – occasionally for certain official church acts such as baptisms, weddings, abdications. – Originally a free gift, the Stolgeld was recognized in the Lateran Council of 1215 as an obligatory service and enshrined in church law. It should be noted that in Germany, until 1874, the clergy was also responsible for the entire registration of all baptisms, banns, marriages and deaths. According to calculations in Hamburg around 1860, the maintenance of the respective church books and the issuing of the corresponding certificates took up more than half of a clergyman’s working hours. – Stolgeld from stole = over both
The sash of the (Catholic and Lutheran) clergyman hanging down from the shoulders. – See official money, confession money, memorial money, candle money, memorial money, fair money, tax.

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