2022Cultural Heritage - Sheetlets

“Beigla” (face value: CHF 1.10) are tally sticks on which in olden days members of farmers’ alpine cooperatives etched their shares in forest and grazing rights. Their legal rights were recorded as notches made in tally sticks and were in use in the Liechtenstein mountain community of Triesenberg until the middle of the 19th century. Researchers assume that the term Beigla was derived from the Alemannic Beiala (notch).