page_title: Wittum
section_title: Name for a parsonage or parochial benefice
hierarchical_section_title: Wittum / Name for a parsonage or parochial benefice
caption_attribution_description: &#160;&#160; This media shows the cultural heritage monument with the number 17266 in South Tyrol.Deutsch: Eingangstor des Widum Schlanders
context_page_description: Wittum, Widum or Witthum is a medieval Latin legal term, known in marital and ecclesiastical law.
context_section_description: In Bavaria and Tirol Widum or Widdum is the term for the immovable assets of the parish benefice, and especially for the rectory. In northern Germany, the (medium) Low German term Wedeme is used.
  Widum emerged today, albeit in modified form, as a local road or field name to, and in Austria as a designation of the residential and commercial buildings of a Catholic parish. In Lübeck, the "Wehde" is the historic parish house of St. Mary's Church.
  The word "wittum" is derived from the same root her as "widmen" ('dedicate'); wittum thus refers to a "dedicated good". In Tyrol and South Tyrol, it is still used as a term for a parsonage. Later, provisions for a widow were called "wittum" because these were "dedicated assets". The linkage of the word "wittum" with "widow" is considered folk etymology and incorrect.
caption: Widum in Schlanders
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