Reihendorf

A series of village or homestead village is a settlement shape and form of the village. It is an elongated topographic object such as a road or a path, a dike, a valley or a ridge, a stream or ditch ahead, the rural settlements, that is, created along the courtyards or farmsteads in more or less regular intervals ( together ranked ) have been.

Number of villages can single-row or double row (ie, on both sides of the road ) to be created. The arrangement of the arable land in the yard has the advantage of saving time and reducing the transport burden, since it can be " gewirtschaftet into " straight from the farm " out " or in him ( manure spreading, seeding, retraction of the harvest) and by the presence of the farmer a better control of the lands is guaranteed.

Frequently there was no hallway forced and often no commons. By approximately the same size as and balanced system of courts and parcels are the advantages and disadvantages, which are given by the different geomorphological, hydrological and geo-ecological conditions, better balanced than other village and field forms.

Special forms of a series of village are Hagen Hufendorf, Waldhufendorf, march Hufendorf and street village. The latter limits the topographic objects on roads and paths. The definition of the term is not sharply defined.

• Village form
• Reihendorf