Ćwierć

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The Ćwierć , also Cwiercec , more rarely Wiert , was a Polish volume and grain measure and was the so-called quarter.

The measure was valid in the Kingdom of Poland and in the Free State of Krakow and differed by 2 liters .

  • Krakow 1 Ćwierć = 1513 3/5 Parisian cubic inches = 30 liters
  • King Poland 1 Ćwierć = 1613 1/5 Parisian cubic inch = 32 liters

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Ćwierć = 8 twines / twine = 31 kwarty / quart
  • 4 Ćwierci = 1 Korzec / bushel
  • 120 Ćwierci = 1 load

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weight of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 54
  • Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 56

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horace Doursther: Dictionnaire universel des poids et mesures anciens et modern: contenant des tables des monnaies de tous les pays. M. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie royale, Bruxelles 1840, p. 120