Rundangerdorf

Nienwedel in Lower Saxony. Elbe valley near Hitzacker

The Rundangerdorf is a type of settlement in which the farmhouses are arranged in a circle around an inner square with a village pond . This internal order continues to the outside in a star-shaped arrangement of the house paddocks .

While the Rundling is a typical form of settlement for the Slavic population in the time of the German East Settlement , Rundanger villages are not a gentile form of settlement. You can find them all over Central Europe. In the Netherlands there are the Ringdörfer (Ringdorp also called Kerkringdorp - Kirchenringdorf) especially in the province of Zeeland , in Austria the Rundangerdorf Sicheldorf in Styria and in Romania the Rundangerdorf Charlottenburg in the Banat from 1771.

A special form of the Rundangerdorf is the Wurtendorf , which was laid out on an artificially raised hill (the terp). Examples of this are the districts of Grabau and Nienwedel in the town of Hitzacker in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district.

See also

• Angerdorf , Radialhufendorf
• Hanfthal , a Rundanger village in Austria, part of Laa an der Thaya

Web links

• Rundanger village Hanfthal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sicheldorf ( memento of June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 28, 2012.