Skaelskor anniversary!

Our town was going to celebrate the anniversary of 525 years as market town and we set out to find out more about the day. Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to hold markets and in Denmark there were other privileges:
· Sole right to perform handcrafts and trade within a certain area
· Right of administration other than state
· Own court of law
· Free of some taxes
· No army duty
The privileges were given by the king of the territory and distinguished the market towns from villages and cities. A town may be still described as a market town even if it no longer holds a market, provided the right to do so still exists.
To our surprise we found that the first privileges for certain were given already in 1240 by King Valdemar the Second and it was applied that privileges might have been given even earlier.
1414 King Erik of Pommern confirms the rights and privileges
1441 King Christopher the Third confirms the rights.
1472 King Christian the First confirms and makes rights more specific.
1483 King Hans confirms the rights.
So as you see it was really only the confirmation of rights by King Hans that we were celebrating. It made a bit of a stir in the papers, but the celebrating, thank god, was still on.
So we send you a little Power Point to show you some of the event.