https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.6344
Important changes in the ownership structure of Prussian property belonging to the State of the Teutonic Order took place after the end of the Thirteen Years’ War. The Order liberalized its ownership policy by enabling prompt tax payers to lease and acquire land in the Order’s estates. The practice of rewarding loyal subjects, granting trading rights, economic privileges and financial benefits to the Order’s supporters was gradually discontinued. The Order expanded the scope of ownership rights and lease privileges to its existing and planned economic infrastructure (relative to the mid-15th century). Interested parties became entitled to new privileges, larger plots of cultivated land, licenses to operate manors, inns and other businesses as independent enterprises or groups of enterprises in the Order’s estates (Gut). The Teutonic Order’s monopoly over property ownership and economic activity ceased to exist by the late 15th century (1470s). The existing structure and function of the Teutonic economic system gradually disintegrated.
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