Reichskammergericht

English

Etymology

From German Reichskammergericht (“imperial chamber court”).

Proper noun

Reichskammergericht

1. (historical) The imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.
   • 1995, Karel Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored, page 141:

     The members of the Reichskammergericht were nominated both by the Estates and the emperor.

   • 2008, Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves, page 245:

     Likewise, it took a while before the Imperial Court of Law, the Reichskammergericht, established its permanent headquarters in the German city of Wetzlar in 1693.

   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 123:

     The Peace of Augsburg charged the Reichskammergericht with resolving any disputes by entrusting cases to bipartisan panels composed equally of Lutheran and Catholic judges.

German

Etymology

From Reich +‎ -s- +‎ Kammergericht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁaɪ̯çskamɐɡəˌʁɪçt]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Reichs‧kam‧mer‧ge‧richt

Noun

Reichskammergericht n (strong, genitive Reichskammergerichts, no plural)

1. (historical) Reichskammergericht

Declension

Declension of Reichskammergericht [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Reichskammergericht
genitive	eines	des	Reichskammergerichts
dative	einem	dem	Reichskammergericht
accusative	ein	das	Reichskammergericht

Further reading

• “Reichskammergericht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache