Öseammer

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The Öseammer was a measure of volume in the boiling huts when salt was made. The measure is derived from the barrel-shaped vessel of the same name. This scoop was lifted from the well with the brine and emptied into the salt pan (data refer to Lüneburg salt works)

  • 1 Öseammer = 149.28 liters (brine for the settlement of 3 salt pans = 3 times 40 small rooms á 49.76 liters)
  • 1 sweet = 15.12 kilograms (yield from 1 pan of 49.76 liters)
  • 1 rump = 3 sweet (yield from 3 salt pans of 1 Öseammer)

From 1569 the Öseammer was replaced by the Kumm.

literature

  • Albert Zimmermann , Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem: Mensura - measure, number, number symbolism in the Middle Ages. 1st half volume, Walter De Gruyter & Co., Berlin / New York 1983, p. 244, ISBN 3-11-009769-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Holbach, Michel Pauly: Städtische Wirtschaft im Mittelalter: Festschrift for Franz Irsigler for his 70th birthday. Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie., Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011, p. 340, ISBN 978-3-412-20779-3