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As fees as a will vessel denotes the similarity with handmade paper or vats has. It used to be made of wood or clay, later also of metal. Its oval shape is characteristic, conical towards the bottom. They typically have one or two handles, each attached to the pointed "end" of the gel. The word was and is in use - also in its meaning as a measure of measure - in Upper German, especially in the Alemannic- speaking area, i.e. in Switzerland, Baden-Württemberg and Alsace.

use

Applies were used to store and transport wine, grapes, potatoes, oil, dairy products, etc. In the past, gels were also used for washing (washing gels) with a washboard . Nowadays they are often used as bathing pools for small children or as plant troughs.

Especially in Waldshut on the Upper Rhine, during the carnival , the fees as a noisemaker used. There "Geltentrummler" drumming through the streets of the city on the Gelte.

Old volume measure

The fees as is linguistically in medieval Latin galeta back and as such is already in a Bolzano attested document of the 1289th

Switzerland

Apply, also Gilte or Broc, was also a measure of volume in the Swiss canton of Vaud .

1 Gelte / Broc = 10 Pots (Mass) = 100 Verres ( Little Cups ) = 680.5 Parisian cubic inches = 13.5 liters
1 set ( bucket ) = 3 broc / gel
1 fuder = 48 apply

Netherlands

It was also used as the Dutch wine measure.

1 hold = 2 pots = 2.7088 liters
2 values = 1 schreef / schreve
48 values = 1 aim / ohm

heraldry

The coats of arms also contain representations of validity:

Geltwil ( AG , Switzerland )

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world ... Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 28
Apply . In: Schweizerisches Idiotikon
Apply . In: Dictionary of Alsatian dialects
Apply. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 5 : Gefoppe – Drifts - (IV, 1st section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1897 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Apply . In: Krünitz: Economic Encyclopedia

Web links

Apply . In: Dictionary of the German winegrowing language
Applies to the coat of arms of the guild of wine people in Basel

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 112-113, no. 82 .
↑ GA Jahn: Dictionary of Applied Mathematics: a manual for use in the study and practical operations of those sciences, arts and crafts that require applications of pure mathematics: at the same time as a continuation of Klügel's dictionary of pure mathematics. Volume 1, Reichenbachsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 502.
↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-411-02148-2 , p. 100.

[1] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 112-113, no. 82 .

[2] GA Jahn: Dictionary of Applied Mathematics: a manual for use in the study and practical operations of those sciences, arts and crafts that require applications of pure mathematics: at the same time as a continuation of Klügel's dictionary of pure mathematics. Volume 1, Reichenbachsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 502.

[3] Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-411-02148-2 , p. 100.