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...Why WEREN'T they allowed in Kuttenberg?
Usury.
For those unaware, usury is the charging of interest, at any rate. Many false and fooled Christians think usury is only interest at high rates. That is false, and the idea was twisted to excuse away ignoring one of God's rules for us, to excuse away the increasingly satanic pursuit of mammon (money) over God, in Christian nations, when we are explicitly forbidden from charging interest in the Bible. Jesus let us know what God thinks of money lenders, money changers, and mammon worshippers, when he fashioned a whip in the temple.
No matter how much benefit it provides, no matter the arguments in favor for it, usury always inevitably results in evil, and is a tool used by evil.
That's not even true for the time period. Usury was charging unreasonable interest. Not banning it entirely. To medieval Christians, typically that meant around 3%, but depending on the regime and time period it was somewhere between 1%-5%. So yeah, you could still charge interest, at several rates. It also depended on who you were loaning money to and why.
and here we see the usual hair-splitting legalism on display from the usual group. a classic. take note newcomers.