Lasswirtschaft
The transmission business was up to the emancipation one in the Kingdom of Prussia , especially in Margravate Oberlausitz and partly in the Lower Lausitz common form of property rule and serfdom of the unfree Sorbian peasantry . It was characterized by a right of use of the farms that could be terminated by the landlord at any time. Because of the obligation not only to pay dues to the landlord, but also to perform peasant services personally, the legal status of the Lass farmers came close to serfdom in the Russian Empire.
The origin of this dependency is controversial. It can be traced back to the weak centralization in the Electorate of Saxony , as a result of which the margravate was ruled mainly by the two estates (the nobility and the six towns ) and the aristocracy in the country made uncontrolled agricultural structure policy.
The first contemporary critic of the Lasswirtschaft in 1792 was Andreas Tamm , teacher of Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and Leopold Schefer . From 1799, farms assigned to Lassrecht were converted into hereditary interest farms .
literature
- R. Lehmann: The gentlemen in Niederlausitz , Cologne / Graz 1966
- Tim S. Müller: Gosda / Niederlausitz: Land use change of an East Elbe manor between "Economic Enlightenment" and the dawning industrial age (1790-1860). Univ.-Diss. Münster, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8309-2618-4
Web links
- Erwin Seemel: Population and economic conditions in the Lübben office in the first half of the 18th century Local calendar 1958 for the Spreewaldkreis Lübben, pp. 40–45
- Günter Bayerl : The history of Niederlausitz and its current problems BTU Cottbus , November 15, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malte Schmiedhäuser: Agrarian Constitution and Inheritance Introduction to the Early Modern Age / Social Order, University of Münster , 2003
- ↑ Andreas Tamm: Something else about serfdom, inheritance subservience and lass -goods in the Lausitz , Lausizische monthly, Zittau 1792
- ↑ The agricultural reforms of the 19th century ( memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Agriculture and Rural Society, 1500–2000, University of Münster , 2010
