Communion village

As Communion village one is village or a place designated, who owned several landlord was. This property can consist of land shares (with farmers or kossaten positions ) or equity .

history

Communion villages originally came from medieval scattered estates , which were often widely distributed and often only accessible over great distances. The owners ( free farmers ) or landlords ( knights , sovereigns and monasteries ) were therefore interested in merging these properties largely as closed possessions (closed manors) by buying or taking over shares in pledge. This fact was widespread until the 18th century.

literature

• Julia Haack: Denatured everyday life: on the culture of debate in the 18th century. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Freiburg i. Br. 2006, Cologne 2008.
• Hans-Werner Goetz : Life in the Middle Ages: from the 7th to the 13th century. 7th edition 2002, Munich 1986.
• Friedrich Hildebrandt: Mecklenburg, becoming and being of a district. Velhagen & Klasing (eds.), 1938.

Web links

• History of the villages of the Brunow community ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Office Eldenburg Lübz