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Freisasse is a term used in the premodern social order, which is sometimes used synonymously with the term Freibauer , which is also not used uniformly, but is sometimes also differentiated from it. It designates the owner of an agricultural property - a Freihof , which is free of obligations for the local manorial rule .

In the 16th and 17th centuries, freemen were part of the urban population in St. Gallen ( freemen ). However, the term is “quite colorful” and was used differently from region to region and from epoch to time. It is documented for the period from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period in Upper Germany and, for example, in the Hochstift Salzburg designates "freefifters", that is to say, the monastery's own people.

The translator Erwin Magnus chose the name Der Freisasse 1936 for the title of the novel Sjálfstætt fólk by Halldór Laxness , which is now known as His own master .

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Individual evidence

  1. Historical Lexicon of Switzerland: St. Gallen - Section Population, Society, Settlement , accessed on November 5, 2019.
  2. Jump up Gustav Pfeifer: From freemen, tower courtyards and castles. On the history of the Tyrolean Goldecker in the late Middle Ages. In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Volume 119, 2011, Issue 1–2, pp. 44–59, doi : 10.7767 / miog.2011.119.12.44
  3. See in detail Herbert Klein: Die Salzburger Freisassen. In: The problem of freedom in German and Swiss history. Mainau lectures 1953 (= lectures and research. Vol. 2). Sigmaringen 1955, pp. 77-87 (PDF) . On the question of whether it was a matter of self-employed people and the different degrees of freedom in this context, see, among others, Alfons Dopsch : Herrschaft und Bauer in der Deutschen Kaiserzeit: Investigations on the agricultural and social history of the high Middle Ages with special consideration of the south-east German area. 2nd Edition. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart 1964, pp. 30-32 ; Otto Stolz : Legal history of the peasant class and agriculture in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Georg Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1985 (first edition Bozen 1949), p. 91 f.