Plaice (ground)

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In arable farming, the plaice is a term used only in the agricultural history of the German-speaking area for a farmer's own or leased property .

Up until the 19th century, this was also used in legal texts to generally name the part of the farmed land of a farmer that brought him vegetable yields ( field crops ). The farmer was obliged to live on his leased land, he had no possibility, at least in theory, of settling in another area (for example, to be subject to another landlord, or even free), and had no right of objection delivered to the lord's tension and bondage services (compulsory clods, bondage to clods ). The binding of clods also obliged the landlord, who could only sell the land together with the farmers who had settled on it to another landlord; selling only the farmers or only the land was not permitted. In practice, however, depending on the economic situation, clod bondage was interpreted more or less strictly - it was quite common to buy serfs from other rulers or even rob them, while on the other hand the descendants of local farmers were sometimes forced by a lack of jobs to emigrate.

After the peasants' liberation as a result of the Enlightenment and the effects of the French Revolution , the term plaice went out of fashion in the 19th century and was only used in romantic songs. The blood-and-soil ideology of National Socialism increasingly used the term in a political and figurative sense, but without it having become common again in everyday agricultural life .

The clod , clod or short flounder is actually a large embedded base, which by the plow on a field has been raised.

The term is also used out of date as a metaphor for home .

Plaice are mentioned in Article 163, Paragraph 1, Sentence 1 of the Bavarian Constitution : "The farmer is not tied to the plaice."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Hoerder: History of German Migration. From the Middle Ages to today. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 9783406587948 , p. 21f.
  2. ^ The German dictionary, Knaur, Lexographisches Institut München 1985, p. 858.