Typical scene from Vojvodina...
Salasch It`s something like farm, croft or smallholding...
A Salasch can be easiest compared to the American farm, a group of buildings with a residence, stables and storage buildings for grain and equipment, although the acreages usually never was as large as the farms in the USA...
The Salasch was a “Bauerngut” of an influential larger farmer while the usual commuting farmer was a known as the small farmer who owned pieces of land around the villages...
the Danube Swabian had for the most part closed communities and had to commute to their fields... These fields were often small in acreages either purchased or inherited and often divided among several children... Many of those acreages had different value depending where they were located and on what soil they were located on...
The Salasch on the other hand was mostly farm acreages were larger size fields were used for the same type of crops, wheat for bread, corn for pig and poultry feed, sunflowers for cow feed or oaths as horse feed...
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