Söllner (social class)
Söllners were those farmers who owned a farm but no land during the manorial era .
Subdivision
Further categories of these social classes were the session peasants , who had both land and house, and the residents , who had neither one nor the other. This subdivision was made purely according to social criteria and no one was legally bound by it. So it often happened that Söllner worked in the fields of richer farmers and for this time left their house and became residents of a session farmer.
Settlement
Söllner settlements are typically higher up, which means that most of them can still be recognized by the addition of "mountains" to their names. Examples of this are Wolfau mountains or districts that are simply called "mountains". This resulted from the increased taxes in western Hungary in the 16th and 17th centuries, so that some farmers were forced to relocate to these areas with lower taxation.
literature
- Alfred Schmeller: Das Burgenland , 2nd edition 1968, ISBN 978-3-900173-03-6