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The corvee ( from Middle High German VRON = " as far as the [ spiritual or secular ] Lord heard him " to MHG FRO = Mr ) denotes personal services by farmers for their landlords. In Bavarian, this phenomenon is also called Robath.

The Frohn, Frohne, Frone designates a servant of the so-called master, and lord's bailiff, officers, bailiffs, court messengers Bannwart, constable.

Activities and development

Forced labor were a power of farmers for the basic or body Lord. They included a very wide range of different activities for a specified number of days per year. There were also works the scale varied according to the workload. Normally, the farmers contributed so-called manual and team services ( troop work ). Hand services existed, for example, is to apply the agricultural crops of the landowner to cultivate and harvest. Tension services were works that were carried out with draft animals. Regardless of the life needs of farmers forced labor were also often demanded to seed or harvest time and thus posed a major problem for farmers who had to cope precisely at these times on their own fields, a lot of work.

With the rise of the money economy, the labor services were increasingly and gradually replaced by money. In some regions of Germany, the scope of forced labor after the Thirty Years' War took too strong and burdened the peasants getting stronger, so that the system of manorial worked less and less. Frequently forced labor were the subject of subjects, processes, the results were processed in an extensive farmer legal literature and made available. With the abolition of serfdom in the 18th and 19th century, the corvee were abolished.

Today's use

Indulge originally meant " a lord afford as dependent service ". Today indulge will only be used in a figurative sense, usually without the metaphor and the tertium comparationis " indulge a passion " to be aware of.

Robath

Robath ( bavarian and austrian also robot or robots, of Czech / Slovak robota - [ frontal ] work and Russian rabota - work, see the art word robot ) is drudgery that had to be made ​​to the lords or princes of his serfs.

There was the Handrobath and the so-called Zugrobath. The Zugrobath got along with two draft animals. They knew even the "long Zugrobath ". These were transit services, which lasted two draft animals two days.