Free House
As a free house in were the Middle Ages and the early modern houses called, although within the walls of a city were legally but did not belong to this. This means that the owners of the Freihaus houses were directly from the state , they had their place of jurisdiction before the regional court like all residents of the building in question and were exempt from city taxes. In addition to the nobility , ecclesiastical institutions often had such privileged municipal property.
Freihäuser were often given out as lordly fiefs , more rarely they were allodial property of the owner. They often belonged to a Burglehn district. The noble defenders of the fortress were settled there. But it also happened that sovereign princes privileged individual houses in a city and exempted them from city rights . There was often a dispute between the owners of the Freihäuser and the cities in which they were located as to whether municipal crafts could be carried out in these houses, and if so, whether they were subject to the guild .
In some countries, in addition to aristocratic descent, the possession of a free house was sufficient to become a full member of the estates .
The term Outdoor seating used; This is also understood to mean a property that has mostly or partially been exempted from the princely, manorial or civil duties by paying a fee in money or other equivalent value. A patio is mostly owned by the aristocracy or the clergy. This term was first used in a letter of sale ("vacant houses") from 1507 and an imperial resolution of May 24, 1518 to the estates above the Enns .
See also
literature
- Article Frey House. In: Johann Georg Krünitz: Oekonomisch-Technologische Encyklopädie or general system of statistic, city, house and country management, and the history of art in alphabetical order. Vol. 15: Frech-Gampferkraut, Berlin 1778.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Grüll : The free houses in Linz. Gutenberg Verlag, Linz 1955, p. 16.