Shepherd's field

A shepherd's field was a field whose yield was due to a community shepherd as part of his salary. So in 1797 the community shepherd Gießberger received in Dombühl

“12 Rothenburg Malter spelled,
32 1/2 gulden in cash,
2 fathoms, 6 shoe-sized wood plus sticks and logs,
1 1/4 day's work meadows adjoining the Furthwiesen,
1/2 day's work in meadows on the lake,
3/4 day's work below the front tube.
There is also a free apartment in the shepherd's house with grass, scorch, and herb garden, plus 1/2 quarter field not far from the shepherd's house, lying in the well and 1/4 field on the mountain. "

- Dombühl archive

The name has been preserved in many places as a corridor or street name .

Web links

• Shepherds in Sendelbach ( Memento from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

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• Shepherd's field. In: German legal dictionary . Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1966.
• Shepherd's field. In: Palatinate dictionary . Founded by Ernst Christmann. Stuttgart 1965-1998.
• Shepherd's field. In: Peter Kläring: Glossary of the old masses and weights in Preussen (private website).
• Archive Dombühl - The Dombühl sheep law and its lawyers. Official gazette and bulletin of the market town of Dombühl, number 16/17, August 3, 2016 (PDF).