IDNO

P.7968.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Slavic long and round villages, Ripley, p.240.

Two aerial drawings showing the difference between the Slavic long village type of Trebnitz, Saxony, and the Slavic round village type of Witzeetze, Hannover. [JD 3/11/2009]

Place

W Europe; Germany; Saxony; Trebnitz; Hannover [Prussian Saxony]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1913

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Both images were published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.240, with the following captions:
“Slavic Long Village. Trebnitz, Prussian Saxony.”
“Slavic Round Village. Witzeetze, Hanover.” [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.239-240:
“It seems impossible that the movements of a people should be traced merely by the study of the way in which they laid out their villages ; yet August Meitzen, the eminent statistician, has just issued a great four-volume work, in which this has been done with conspicuous success. It appears that the Slavic peoples in allotting land almost always followed either one of two plans. Sometimes they disposed the houses regularly along a single straight street, the church near the centre, with small rectangular plots of garden behind each dwelling. Outside this all land was held in common. Such a village is that of Trebnitz, whose ground plan is shown in our first cut on the next page. In other cases it was customary to lay out the settlement in a circular form, constituting what is known as the Slavic round village. In such case there is but one opening to the common in the centre, and the holdings in severalty extend outward in triangular sectors. Beyond these, in turn, lie the common pasture and woodlands.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]