Residents of the new village developed farms on strip plots along the river.
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The fields were divided among the families as " nadel " ( " allotment " ) a complex of strip plots, distributed according to the quality of the soil.
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If the elongated arable fields behind a single-or two-row village had a width of less than about 10 metres ( which often used to happen as a result of inheritance division ), they are known in the Upper German language area as " Streifenparzellen " ( " strip plots " ) or " Riemenparzellen " ( " belt plots " ).