A Ganerbenburg (plural: Ganerbenburgen) is a castle occupied and managed by several families or family lines at the same time. These families shared common areas of the castle including the courtyard, well, and chapel, whilst maintaining their own private living quarters. They occurred primarily in medieval Germany.
A Ganerbenburg (plural: Ganerbenburgen) is a castle occupied and managed by several families or family lines at the same time. These families shared common areas of the castle including the courtyard, well, and chapel, whilst maintaining their own private living quarters. They occurred primarily in medieval Germany.
== Ganerbenburgen and Ganerbschaft == thumb|upright|One of the earliest known examples of a joint inheritance or Ganerbschaft: the reconstructed Hohkönigsburg in Alsace thumb|One of the largest castle ruins in Franconia: Altenstein Castle (Lower Franconia)|Altenstein near Maroldsweisach thumb|The "multi-family castle" of Eltz Castle|Eltz on the [[Moselle]] thumb|Plan of Franconia's Salzburg Castle above Bad Neustadt The German word ganerbe appears in the Middle High German romance, 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 of the 9th century. In Old High German, gan meant "common", "joint" or "commoner". Accordingly, the term Ganerbenburg may be roughly translated as "common inheritors' castle". The first historically verifiable Ganerbschaft arrangement appears in the 13th century in Alsace at the castle of Haut-Kœnigsbourg.
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