Parent company

In the broader sense, a parent house is a house or building that has not been built by its owner himself or acquired by a third party, but has been taken over by his ancestors, especially his parents. In a narrower sense, goods, castles and residences of noble families were referred to as ancestral homes, provided that they had their permanent residence there. These noble families often took over the names of their ancestral houses (for example the Counts of Altena , the noble family Gleichen and the barons of Hardenberg ). The opposite case, that the parent houses were named after the families who lived in them, also occurred (e.g. Krupp parent company ).

literature

• Parent houses; Trunk house. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 1073 f.