This study of the Gietzering isolated farmstead near Johanniskirchen, dist. Rottal-Inn, in the Inn-Isar hill country south-west of Passau began in 1989 as a university fieldwork course. The site, which is also spelt Gitzering, Gitzkering or Gitzgering, is mentioned in a rental list of Osterhofen Monastery in A.D. 1349-53.The underlying donation was first dated to the 10th/11th century A.D., later to the 12th/13th century A.D. This historical date was verified and specified by means of field walking on some 5.1 ha collecting finds from the “dung scatter”. According to this, the beginning of the settlement in the 12th/13th century A.D. may safely be assumed, even the 11th century A.D. might faintly be present. 2,342 finds were discovered, mainly pottery, 389 of which were catalogued and dated. A second farmstead to the north of the main one was dated to after A.D. 1400 by its name suffix -weber, which was confirmed by finds of the 14th/15th century A.D. A cadastral and liquidation plan from A.D. 1856 documents an increase in woodland in the 19th century A.D. A purchase contract of A.D. 1896, including an inventory list of movable and immovable property, means a unique source for a smallholding from the period of industrialisation.weiterlesen