Sachenspiegel

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Sachsenspiegel or Mirror of the Saxons (1220-35) is a customary laws collection compiled by Eike von Repgow (1180-1235).

Repgow was encouraged by Hoyer von Falkenstein, being his overlord from Saxon high nobility, to produce the Sachsenspiegel, which was the German version of a Latin original written again by himself. The purpose of the articles was to bring to textual form and stabilize the long oral tradition of Saxon jurisprudence.

The Sachsenspiegel has two parts - Landrecht and Lehnrecht.

The Landrecht is concerned with the laws regarding management of fiefs, with the space occupied by the landowning lord and the landworking peasant, while the Lehnrecht is concerned with more general laws, or regional law.

It was translated into Latin, Dutch, Polish, Czech, and even Russian.^[1]