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.
As we know 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. Even for a
lucrative export we will hear about from the
economical section of the Donauschwaben.
The
large
farm of Andreas Rollinger near
Ernsthausen, Banat on his last day
at his home. The picture was taken
just hour before the family fled
their home under the protection of
the German Army in 1944. Notice the
horses seam to be ready to pull the
wagons of a wagon trek fleeing from
the oncoming Russian Red Army only
days away.
