Mithauserei

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The Mithauserei is an organizational form of peasant living together , for example, in East Tyrol until the early modern period , and occasionally even existed until the 19th century.

In the case of Mithauserei it was customary that only the family association had property, but not the individual family members. The father appointed one of his sons to be a “Vorhauser” or farmer , who administered the family assets. The other residents were the "fellow houses".

In addition to parents and children, the extended family also included married sons and possibly their sons. The family association was able to regulate the birth rate through the age and frequency of marriage, since only limited agricultural space was available for food. As a result, many people of both sexes remained single.