IDNO

P.7967.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Settlements and village types, Ripley, p.242.

On Catalogue Card: Germanic village, Ripley, p.241.

Map of the setlement and village types of Germany, including pure German, Celtic, and Slavic. [JD 3/11/2009]

Place

W Europe; Germany

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Meitzen, A. [Original Author]

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Date

circa 1895

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: The image was published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.242, with the following caption:
“Settlements and Village Types, Germany. After Meitzen ‘95.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: The following text is found in Ripley, 1913, pp.241-243:
“Our large map on the next page shows the geographical distribution of these several village types. The circumscribed area of the original Germanic settlements is rather remarkable. It shows how far the Slavs penetrated in number sufficient thus to transform the landscape. It will be observed that on this map the small squares and triangles denote the areas into which the German tribes transplanted their peculiar institutions. That they were temporarily held in check by the Romans appears from the correspondence between the Roman wall, shown by a heavy black line on the map, and the southern boundary of the Germanic villages. Of course, when they spread abroad, a considerable change in the agrarian organization was induced by the fact that the emigrants went as a conquering class. The institutions became less democratic, rather approaching the feudal or manorial type ; but they all preserved sufficient peculiarities to manifest their origin. Such hybrid village types, covering all northern France and eastern England, are as good proof of Teutonization as we could ask.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: Meitzen, A. 1895. Siedelung und Agrarwesen der West-germanen und Ostgermanen, der Kelten, Romer, Finnen u. Slawen. Berlin. 3 v. ; Atlas. [JD 3/11/2009]