Angerdorf

Village green of the village of Marzahn

Historical map of Leopoldau (Vienna) - an anger village

An anger village is a type of village, which is characterized by the fact that the houses and farmsteads of the village are systematically laid out around a central square, the anger (from ahd. Angar = pasture or grass field) - the anger being the common property of the village community. The anger usually has the shape of a lens or an eye, but can also have various other shapes: square or triangular shape, circle or crescent shape (see images). The front sides of the buildings stand on the eaves , stables and barns are at the rear of the properties ( called Hintaus in Austria ) and these are possibly connected by a farm road that leads in an outer ring around the village.

There is often a village pond on the Anger, and sometimes a stream flows through the Anger, which is no longer easy to recognize today due to the changed groundwater level. The water was probably the reason for the establishment of the Angers. Originally there were no buildings on the Anger, but over time, other communal facilities were often settled on the Anger, such as the village church , the village school or a forge.

Angerdörfer occur in Central Europe mainly on ground moraine plates and in loess areas , in Germany mainly in East and East-Central Germany. They were often created during the German colonization in the Middle Ages and are therefore still unobstructed in many western Hungarian villages (for example in Loretto in today's Burgenland , with the largest grassland in Europe).

In Austria , this type of village predominates in the Waldviertel and Weinviertel of Lower Austria, in the Vienna Basin , in Burgenland and in eastern and southern Styria .

There are Angerdörfer also in France, especially in Lorraine (e.g. Sommerviller or Rozelieures ), in Alsace and in Northern England (e.g. Maulds Meaburn ).