The Back court was designed for
stables housing the horses, the
cows and pigs. They provided a
huge roaming area for the
chicken, gees and ducks besides
being the mean court where the
manure was deposited to cure and
taken to the fields during the
winter months. The Back court
was designed for stables housing
the horses, the cows and pigs.
They provided a huge roaming
area for the chicken, gees and
ducks besides being the mean
court where the manure was
deposited to cure and taken to
the fields during the winter
months.
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A typical home garden often located in the front court but
here we see one in a back court in the town of Altker, Batschka.
A typical manure pile and a farmer loading the wagon in
Filipowa, Batschka.
A farmer taking his manure to
the field with a cow wagon in
Sathmar. Notice the typical
Hungarian Longhorn cows.
A typical farmer raising pigs in Ernsthausen, Banat.
Two sisters of the Saller family with their
dolls and their ducks.
Helmut Bundus of Altker, Batschka as a little
boy with the chicken in the back court.
A view of a back court, Indija, Syrmia. Notice; the gate, the
“Hambar,” storage area for the grain and corn. The small door led to a
stable and the bird’s house.
The Salasch
by Hans Kopp
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.
A
Salasch near Jarek, Batschka
A
Salasch in Gakowa, Batschka
Excerpts from the book “The
Last Generation Forgotten and Left to
Die” by Hans Kopp, with additions for the study of the
history of the Donauschwaben, their
heritage, customs and social mores.All Rights
reserved. ISBN No. 0-9701109-0-1.
Copyright 1999 and 2006 Reproduction of this material for resale
is prohibited by law. Special permission is granted to the
“Donauschwaben Village Helping Hands
Project" to be published on their webpage as “An
Illustrated History of the
Donauschwaben”
[Published at www.dvhh.org, 15
Nov 2006]
The
Hambar
'Corncribs' in Europe
The European hambar is
a ventilated
storage place, mostly used to dry corn.
The wind can
blow between the lattice works to dry the corn.
For that reason it is standing by itself.
Upper Hambar photo taken by J. McKim,
2004
in Fibisch
