!!!Schwaige

Schwaige, special type of settlement and farming in Alpine regions. 
Often the "Schwaighof" farmhouses were founded as permanent 
types of settlement by the territorial princes themselves and used for 
keeping cattle, especially dairy cattle (in particular for the 
production of cheese); documented in Tirol and Salzburg since the 
12%%sup th/%  century. Later the term Schwaige was sometimes used 
to refer to  Almen, Alpine pastures which are used only during the 
summer months. Dairymen and dairymaids are sometimes called 
"Schwaiger" and "Schwaigerin".


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