Bifang

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Bifang is an old German term for a fenced-in field, usually a narrow field. In legal history , Bifang refers to a piece of land cleared by a person entitled to do so, for example a member of the march , which became his special property through being enclosed and was not subject to general economic restrictions such as flurzwang .

Single meanings

Numerous individual meanings, often only used locally, developed from this general term:

  • narrow, raised field strip between two furrows
  • narrow, lawn-lined border strip between two fields; Strip of fields
  • the heaped earth wall for the production of white asparagus and potatoes
  • a Carolingian clearing district
  • fenced field
  • Name of individual fields, field name
  • Acreage
  • City - district - ban mile - enclosed property
  • Clearance laid out in the common land, which becomes property, often equal to the ban mile
  • Fencing, border (s)
  • Perimeter, fence, community
  • Enclosure, bed

In earlier times, certain fields were also called "bifanger". The Old High German "bi" (New High German "bei") emphasizes not only the enclosure of the arable land obtained from wild land, but also probably means its inclusion in the field, as some of the expressions suggest, especially in cases in which the "capture" is actually used Field corridor of an already existing place was struck.

Today one can still find the expression in numerous street names, especially in Switzerland (for example in Wettingen , Wohlen , Zofingen , Laufenburg ), but also in western Austria ( Rankweil , Feldkirch ), Bavaria (Bifangweg in Munich ) and southern Baden (street “Bifänge “In Freiburg -St. Georgen).

See also

  • Újezd , the Czech equivalent of Bifang and a common place name in the Czech Republic

literature

  • Erich Fliegner : Contributions to the history of bifang . With special consideration of Westphalia . Freystadt 1920 (inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate).

Web links

Wiktionary: Bifang  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Asparagus "bibbert" in the Bifang article Mittelbayerische Zeitung Regensburg, April 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ Asparagus Slow - Spargelhof Rehm at Slow Food