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THURSDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2024, 23:51

World

The great German land lottery

Saturday at 00:15 AM, via NPR

Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a ritual dating back centuries. Osing refers to the area. And verlosung means “lottery,” as in a land lottery. All of the land in this communal land is randomly reassigned to farmers who commit to farming it for the next decade.Hundreds of years ago, a community in Germany came up...

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