A Ganerbschaft (plural: Ganerbschaften in German), according to old German inheritance law, was a joint family estate, mainly land, over which the co-heirs (Ganerben) only had rights in common. In modern German legal parlance it corresponds to a "community of joint ownership" (Gesamthandsgemeinschaft or Gemeinschaft zur gesamten Hand).
A Ganerbschaft (plural: Ganerbschaften in German), according to old German inheritance law, was a joint family estate, mainly land, over which the co-heirs...
Parzival, written by Wolfram von Eschenbach around 1200. The legal term Ganerbschaft appears from textual evidence to go back at least to the second half...
the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria, Germany. Trappstadt was a Ganerbschaft which was joint family estate, over which the co-heirs (Ganerben) only...
however, remained a common possession of the two brothers (the so-called Ganerbschaft in ancient Germanic hereditary laws). In the first half of the 14th century...
Hesse. In the Middle Ages the castle became a large joint inheritance or Ganerbschaft of lesser noble families, who were an important local power in the eastern...
Schornsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate...
House of Nassau. The family kept the castle as a joint inheritance or Ganerbschaft for centuries. The original fortress was turned into a water castle on...
Hohenfels the Elder in the foundation certificate of the joint holding, or Ganerbschaft, from 15 November 1270. Joint landholders in this arrangement, besides...
Teil II: Von 1351–1469. Nuremberg, 1972. pp. 30–35. Martin Schütz: Die Ganerbschaft Rothenberg. Nuremberg, 1924. Sven Thole: Die Festung Rothenberg - Der...
The feud was named after the knightly House of Dernbach, a powerful Ganerbschaft (jointly-owned inheritance) with almost sovereign rights. The Dernbachers...
entity called the "noble inheritance of the house" (German: Adelige Ganerbschaft des Hauses). Alten Limpurg families A genealogical database of the Frankfurt...
Palatinate on the Rhine’s left bank. Until 1818, Freinsheim belonged to a Ganerbschaft (joint inheritance), which comprised the Leiningen villages of Leistadt...
spelled as Buoch. At that time, it was a part of the joint inheritance (Ganerbschaft) of the Banz Abbey, the district of Lichtenfels of the Bishopric of Bamberg...
sovereign, both holding the fief within the Electorate of Trier – called a Ganerbschaft - with the two aristocratic houses being the lords of Partenheim and...
around Friedberg Castle and the Kaiserpfalz in Gelnhausen; A number of Ganerbschaft arrangements, where noble families jointly held an undivided inheritance...
inheritance, sale and enfeoffments, so that the Kellenbach High Court was a Ganerbschaft (a joint holding or inheritance), with joint high jurisdiction. A one-fourth...
were donated to Lorsch Abbey in 793. In 1574, Erligheim was broken per Ganerbschaft into quarters that eventually came into the possession of the Elector...
the nobility’s representatives formed an area of joint rule, called a Ganerbschaft, whose assemblies were held in a forerunner building to the St. Michael...
subject to an administrative arrangement called an Erbgemeinschaft or a Ganerbschaft. This meant that the Lords of Manderscheid-Keil and the Counts of Löwenhaupt-Rasburg...
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