staple right

Dordrecht was made even more important when it was given staple right in 1299.

However, in 1317 Mainz, in addition to becoming a market town, received staple rights.

The emperor also granted trade privileges like the staple right which forced traveling merchants to offer their goods in the town for three days.

When Groningen received the staple right, Appingedam rapidly lost its trading position.

For instance, Braşov was granted a staple right in 1369 with respect to the trade in cloth from Poland or Germany.

The oldest mention of the staple right of Diez dates to the early 14th century and is an indication of significant shipping on the Lahn by that time.

Limited staple rights were sometimes given to towns along major trade-routes, e.g. Görlitz obtained staple rights for salt and Woad.

Multiple tiers existed; for example, in Sweden, the basic royal charter for a city enabled trade, but not foreign trade, which required a higher-tier charter granting staple right.

Matthias deprived Vienna of its staple right, a right that violated the commercial interests of the nearby countries so much, they formed the Visegrád Group to secure a bypass route detouring the city.

The saying can probably be explained as follows; traffic used to go by water and whoever came close to Dordrecht was obliged, according to staple right, to display their merchandise for a couple of days before being allowed to sail on.

In 1444 Lviv was granted with the staple right, which resulted in city's growing prosperity and wealth, as it became one of major trading centres on the merchant routes between Central Europe and Black Sea region.

Breslau lost its staple right in 1515, and the trade on the High Road towards the Black Sea lost its importance after the Turkish occupation of Italian colonies on the Black Sea.

This especially affected the transport of perishable goods like foodstuffs, though traders could often pay a fee to avoid having to display their wares, thus turning the staple right into a form of trade taxation, with similar, but less severe results.

Stettin in the Duchy of Pomerania The cities on the route held the privilege of staple right, merchants were obliged to use the toll road and in turn enjoyed protection by the Imperial authority under the terms of the Landfrieden.

Among the privileges granted to the two cities by the Margraves were Barndenburg Law (including absence of tolls, free exercise of trade and commerce, hereditary property rights) and in particular the staple right, which gave Cölln and Berlin an economic advantage of Spandau and Köpenick.

The staple right (also translated stacking right or storage right, both from the German Stapelrecht) was a medieval right accorded to certain ports, the staple ports, that required merchant barges or ships to unload their goods at the port, and display them for sale for a certain period, often three days.

The staple right can be compared to the market right (the right to hold a regular market) as being extremely important for the economic prosperity of the river cities that possessed the right, such as Leipzig, Mainz, or Cologne (where a Stapelhaus still stands as a reminder of the former right).