Flurzwang is the German term for the obligation to participate in open field cultivation in Europe in former times. The owners of farmland and the lord...

present-day Alleenring, however, were cultivated in the old-fashioned style of Flurzwang, which took the basic principles of the crop rotation system, dating back...

farmers of Banzendorf practised a two-year crop rotation as part of the Flurzwang. In 1665 the bigger part of the village burnt down, including the pastorate...

were vegetable plots and vineyards. These were farmed according to the flurzwang rules – similar to a medieval three-field crop rotation system. Between...

Franconian peasants established the three field crop rotation with its Flurzwang (a German system of rules relating to communal farmland in the Middle...