Social & Agricultural Structure
My argumentation in Peasants and Jews rests on a deep understanding of the impact of landscape type and landholdings patterns on the political behavior of the inhabitants of the north German countryside. On this page, I will post tables and maps relevant to this subject.Distribution of population by landscape type
settlement |
Marsch |
Geest |
Moor |
Inseln |
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# |
% |
# |
% |
# |
% |
# |
% |
|
individual |
417 |
73.2 |
329 |
52.1 |
18 |
16.7 |
8 |
53.3 |
small |
149 |
26.0 |
288 |
45.7 |
82 |
75.9 |
5 |
33.3 |
medium |
2 |
0.4 |
9 |
1.4 |
6 |
5.6 |
0 |
0 |
large |
1 |
0.2 |
2 |
0.3 |
2 |
1.8 |
2 |
13.4 |
largest |
1 |
0.2 |
3 |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
TOTAL |
570 |
100 |
631 |
100 |
108 |
100 |
15 |
100 |
population |
71,670 |
29 |
124,701 |
50 |
43,677 |
17.5 |
8,724 |
3.5 |