Galfe

Galfe was a measure of the volume of grain . The Middle Latin spelling "calvea frumenti" can be traced back to the year 1122 in a Treviso document. It was widespread in the Pustertal and was roughly half the star .

1 galfe = 11.2 liters .

Derived from the Middle High German galvei, galbei , it should be a little less than a quarter of a mass as a dry measure . The measure could also be proven in Burgundy and Franche-Comté . In fiefdoms from the years 1601, 1610 and 1616 the measure of Galfe can be proven. 16 gallons of oats per year and one gallon of beans every fourth year were handed over to the leaseholder. In Germany , it was used to measure salt for the Heilig-Geist-Spital . Bills from the years 1538, 1555, 1558 and 1561 prove the measure.

1 galfe = 6 litters
10 1/3 Galfe (spelling galffa) = 21 Metzen

Different sizes of measure

place	liter	place	liter
Mühlwald	10,488	Brixen	11.179
Wiesing	11,536	Wiesing, heaped	13,044
Ahornach	18.606	St, Georgenberg	22,437
San Candido	11,529	innsbruck	18,470
Thaur	23.085	Toblach	15.301

literature

Johannes Kramer : Etymological dictionary of the Dolomite Ladin. C. Buske Verlag, 1989, p. 131, ISBN 978-3-87118-992-0 .

Individual evidence

^ Richard Schober: The documents of the Trautson Auersperg archive. Verlag Tiroler Landesarchiv , Innsbruck 1996, p. 367, ISBN 978-3-90146-405-8 .
^ Moritz John Elsas : Outline of a history of prices and wages in Germany. Volume 1. AW Sijthoff, 1936, pp. 144, 321.
^ Moritz John Elsas: Südtirol A – Z. Volume 2: G – Ko. Südtirol-Verlag, Thaur 1983, p. 17.

[1] Richard Schober: The documents of the Trautson Auersperg archive. Verlag Tiroler Landesarchiv , Innsbruck 1996, p. 367, ISBN 978-3-90146-405-8 .

[2] Moritz John Elsas : Outline of a history of prices and wages in Germany. Volume 1. AW Sijthoff, 1936, pp. 144, 321.

[3] Moritz John Elsas: Südtirol A – Z. Volume 2: G – Ko. Südtirol-Verlag, Thaur 1983, p. 17.