Freihof

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A Freihof was a court independent of court in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period .

In the German lands, a Freihof was a court within a city that belonged to a nobleman or clergyman and was exempt from taxes and other civil duties (guard duty, etc.). Since the 15th century, the city councils paid more attention to the fact that when such farms were sold, the buyer undertook to bear all burdens that were on other houses and to only sell the property on to one citizen.

In the Habsburg Monarchy , the expression Freihaus was common for urban free property , while Freihof denoted manor, farm, Meier or (wine) harvesting yards in rural areas, which - like castles - directly subordinate to the sovereign and from local ones Taxes were exempt (other name: Dominikalgut ). Many were formerly knights . Freihöfe were also not subject to the (village) lower jurisdiction , but that of the landlord , who often resided far from the Freihof . They were recorded in the princely valid register (later: land table ), the last ones were not taken over into the local land register until the 1980s. If the owner was a nobleman, he was a member of the state and was entitled to a seat in the state parliament until 1848 .

Today the term Freihof is also used by proponents of the concept of agricultural community farms as a synonym for such farms.

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