Cast iron and in an excellent, unused condition with all of the black finish still present.
Not marked but a known variation. Size approx. 20,5 x 25,5 cm. Very difficult to find in such condition.

The Reichserbhofgesetz (Reichserbhofgesetz) for the Third Reich was enacted on September 29, 1933, two days before the first Reich Harvest Festival. According to Hermann Göring, it served to protect the farms from „heavy debt and fragmentation of the inheritance“ and was at the same time an expression of the National Socialist blood and soil ideology. An ancestral farm should be at least the size of a field crop and no larger than 125 hectares. The Erbhof owner was designated by law as a farmer, all others as land owners. Only someone of German blood or of the same line could be a farmer. Those who had Jewish or colored blood among their ancestors on their fathers or mothers side were not of German or tribal blood. The ancestral home was inalienable. It could not be sold or encumbered. It could also not be seized. It was practically completely withdrawn from the economic cycle. It could only be inherited.

Cast iron and in a very good, unused condition with all of the dark finish still present. Size approx. 20,5 x 25,5 cm.
Very difficult to find.

Das Reichserbhofgesetz für das Dritte Reich wurde am 29. September 1933, zwei Tage vor dem ersten Reichserntedankfest erlassen. Es diente laut Hermann Göring dazu, die Höfe vor „Überschuldung und Zersplitterung im Erbgang zu schützen“ und war zugleich Ausdruck der nationalsozialistischen Blut-und-Boden-Ideologie.

The Reichserbhofgesetz (National Farm Inheritace Law) of the Third Reich was enacted on September 29, 1933, two days before the first Reichserntedankfest ( Thanksgiving). According to Hermann Göring, it served to “protect the farms from debt and fragmentation of the inheritance”.

It was at the same time an expression of the National Socialist blood-and-soil ideology. A hereditary farm should be at least the size of a crop field and no more than 125 hectares in size. The hereditary farm owner was referred to by law as a farmer, all others as agriculturalists. A farmer could only be someone who was of German or ethnic German blood. Germans or ethnic Germans could not have Jewish or colored blood among their ancestors on either side of the family. The ancestral farm could not be sold, encumbered or seized. It was completely withdrawn from the economic cycle and could only be inherited.