Łaszt

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The Łaszt was a Polish unit of volume and as a load was not entirely uniform in size. It was used as a grain measure . The bushel ( Korzec ) was the varying measure in the regions.

For example, the old or Warsaw bushel had 6080 Paris cubic inches , which corresponds to 120.6052 liters . Later it was based on 128 liters or 6452.792 Parisian cubic inches.

  • 1 Łaszt = 30 Korcy / Scheffel = 120 Ćwierć / Viertel = 960 Garniec / Garnitzen = 3840 Kwarta = 3840 liters ( Free State of Krakow ) (according to 162182 Parisian cubic inches = 3212 4/5 liters [calculated 3217.10 liters])
  • 1 Łaszt = 30 Korcy / Scheffel = 240 Cwierci / Viertel = 1920 Garniec / Garnitzen = 7680 Kwarta = 193584 Parisian cubic inches = 3840 liters ( Poland )

literature

  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1365.
  • Johann Michael Leuchs: The office science part: The instructions to calculate all incidents in trade, in common and higher business with insight, containing. The latest in money, coins, measurements and weights for merchants, businessmen and newspaper readers. Volume 3, Verlag E. Leuchs and Komp., Nuremberg 1834, p. 125.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 149.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 148.