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By 1914 it had become the custom of wealthy families to buy country estates from impoverished aristocratic families. The new owners sometimes settled on the properties or, more often, used them for vacations. Sometimes the estates were simply a financial investment and were visited by the owners onl...

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Published inAn Uncommon Life p. 89
Main Author Thomas J. DeKornfeld
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Corvina 30.06.2015
EditionNED - New edition, 1
Subjects
Animals
Applied arts
Applied sciences
Architectural elements
Architecture
Arts
Attics
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Biomes
Birds
Botany
Buildings
Ecology
Ecosystems
Engineering
Fowling
Grasslands
Hares
Hospital buildings
Human behavior
Hunting
Institutional buildings
Interior spaces
Lawns
Mammals
Pheasants
Plants
Poultry
Rabbits
Residential buildings
Rooms
Transportation
Travel
Vacations
Zoology
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Summary:By 1914 it had become the custom of wealthy families to buy country estates from impoverished aristocratic families. The new owners sometimes settled on the properties or, more often, used them for vacations. Sometimes the estates were simply a financial investment and were visited by the owners only occasionally. The year after Grandfather Weiss bought the estate at Ireg as a wedding gift for my parents, he decided to make a purchase of this kind as an investment but also for the rest of his large family to use for vacations. It was not an easy decision – he had always
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