Desolation
The Vereinödung was an early modern form of land consolidation . A farm whose fields were mostly far outside the village was moved from the village to the Feldmark . The fields were linked near the new location .
The first desertification was carried out in the middle of the 16th century in the area of the prince monastery Kempten .
The measure was intended to achieve a more convenient location for the farm in relation to the farmland. The hitherto predominant, by divisions of inheritance fragmented, small-scale Won corridor , in which the fields of a farm distributed widely and also lay in conflict situation with those of other farms, was passed through a block corridor replaced, in which the entire lands were of a farm in the immediate vicinity of the yard. Most of the time, not only was the arable land redistributed when deserted; The common areas , often far away from the villages and therefore little used, were divided up.
At least as important a goal was to reduce the risk of fire in the narrow places. The closed type of settlement was replaced by single yard settlements .
There are examples among many others in the Allgäu , in Gunzesried , Altusried or Wiggensbach , but also in the area of the city of Kempten with its 155 officially named districts, which are predominantly desert areas or hamlets.
Evaporation can be viewed as an opposing process .
Web links
- Encyclopedia of Geography: Desertification Spektrum.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of Geography: Verdorfung Spektrum.de