DIE HAUPTTYPEN DES WALDBESITZES DES UNGARISCHEN VOLKES NACH DER LEIBEIGENENBEFREIUNG VON 1848
MAIN TYPES OF HUNGARIAN PEASANT FOREST OWNERSHIP FOLLOWING THE LIBERATION OF THE SERFS IN 1848

Summary/Abstract: The study shows the main types of forest communities and the characteristics of the use of individually-owned forests from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The peasant forest communities formed after the liberation of the serfs and in places surviving right up to the 1960s had before them the example of the feudal-type commonage of the nobility. In the commonages of the former serfs the members drew lots to determine their share of the timber from the jointly owned and used forest on the basis of forest laws. When the large estates were divided up in 1945 the poor also jointly managed the forests allotted to them. The forest holdings that arose following the joint purchase of forests, a common practice from the early 20th century, operated on the basis of the same principles as the commonage

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