Cow right

This article describes cow rights in alpine farming. For general information on grazing rights, see pasture justice .

Cow rights are used to determine how many animals an animal keeper can summer on an alp.

A Kuhrecht 's permission, a cow or a corresponding other animal on an Alp to summer grazing . The (ideal) alpine share is also referred to as cow rights .

The primary meaning of cow rights is the right to graze for cows, i.e. the right to summer a cow on a cooperative alpine pasture. The appreciation standard Kuhrecht designated by grazing income generated mass in the pre-alpine - alpine Switzerland. The size of pastures is estimated according to the number of cows in summer , those of meadows according to the number of cows that have overwintered, and is therefore also referred to as cow pasture and wintering. Cow rights are still common today in the alpine areas.

See also

• Alpine rights
• Stocking

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cow law . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 2 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1985, OCLC 832567175 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - continued in the following issue).
2. ^ Anne-Marie Dubler: Kuhrecht. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .