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A farm is a major agricultural , estate as a stately property also good , country house or domain called, or a farm ( farm ).
The manor as a manorial property
It contains the estate ( manor house , stables, barns and servants' houses ) with land, forest and water. Side courtyards that were administered from the main courtyard were called Vorwerk .
In the past, a good stood for wealth or property. This gave rise to the name Gut for a large agricultural property. The goods that knights received from their king for meritorious activities were also called knightly estates . In northern Germany , especially in Schleswig-Holstein , there was also the name noble estate .
As part of the manorial rule , a manor had extensive powers as a fronhof . For example, went from the landlord , the patrimonial jurisdiction of, in Prussia, even to the 19th century.
In the course of time, the designation as a manor or noble estate broke away from ownership and was only the designation for an agricultural company with certain rights that could also belong to commoners.
The helpers of the old manors used to be allowed to live in small settlements called “Heisch” in northern Germany.
The farm as a free property
In contrast to other countries in the Alpine region of Bavaria , Salzburg , Tyrol and German-speaking Switzerland, the farmer was a free man and his own master. Farming estate describes a property free of fiefs . The free farmer had the sole right of disposal over his property and, in addition to numerous other rights, only he was allowed to marry. His servants , but also his siblings, did not have this right. The right to free farming was hereditary and was passed on when the son was in his prime. The old farmer moved into the delivery building . Early on, however, established also a succession in the female line, as an estate without a legitimate heir to the sovereigns fell . This tradition has been preserved as an hereditary farm in Old Bavaria , Austria and South Tyrol to this day, where the oldest hereditary farms go back to the 14th century. This is also associated with the custom of the court name , in which the farmer does not use his family name, but that of his estate.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hereditary farms. State of Tyrol, Representation Department ( Memento from June 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Hereditary farm. South Tyrolean administration.
