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Tenants (usually plural ) (also: Hintersättler , behind were sitting , behind settlers , Kossaten , Kossäten , small häusler , sojourners ) were countrymen who without closed goods, with only one house , garden or individual fields were "put Margaret". The term was used from the Middle Ages until the liberation of the peasants , in Switzerland until the Federal Constitution was changed in 1874, in Liechtenstein until the introduction of the Municipal Law of 1864, in Prussia and in the German Empire in places until the 1880s.

In the Middle Ages, Hintersasse , meaning “who sit behind a gentleman”, was also used as a collective term for farmers who were dependent on the landlord . Were beside himself free tenants, the legal and asset capable and were "only" economically and properly legally obliged to perform obligations existed semi- and unfree tenants that hearing , in a personal relationship of dependency.

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  1. See the web link to the article in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland.
  2. Bernd Marquardt: Hintersassen. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Bach: On the history of Niederwerrn. Niederwerrn n.d. [1988]. P. 10 (Glossary)