Old weights and measures (Bremen)

Old weights and measures (Bremen)

Before the introduction of the metric weights and measures in the North German Confederation , these were valid in the city of Bremen and in nearby catchment areas, as they were historically connected by the Duchy of Bremen and the territory of Bremen .

The trade and grocer's weight has been a decimal weight since July 1, 1858.

Length measurements

• 1 foot of Bremen = 0.28935 meters
• 1 Bremen cubit = 2 Bremen feet = 256.54 Parisian lines = 578.7 millimeters
• 1 Brabant cubit = 307.8424 Parisian lines = 0.69444 meters (approx. 1 1/5 Bremer cubit)
• 1 Bremen rod = 16 Bremen feet = 4.6296 meters
• 1 mile = 1,600 rods = 7407,488 meters

Area dimensions

• 1 square foot = 0.0837 square meters
• 1 square fathom = 36 square feet = 3.0141 square meters
• 1 Bremer Morgen = 120 Bremen square rods = 25.7 ares
• 1 Bremer square rod = 256 Bremer square feet = 21.4332 square meters

Volume measurements

• 1 Bremen cubic foot = 0.024 cubic meters
• 1 Bremer Scheffel (grain measure) = 3735.7 Parisian cubic inches = 74.104 liters
• 1 locker (grain measure) = 4.6315 liters
• 1 Bremer load (grain measure) = 143400 Parisian cubic inches = 4 quart = 40 bushels = 160 quarters = 480 lockers = 2964.16 liters
• 1 Oxhoft = 1.5 ohms = 6 anchors = 30 quarters = 67.5 small rooms = 270 quarters = 1080 mengel
• 1 Ahm = 45 rooms = 180 quart = 720 Mingel = 7308 Parisian cubic inches = 1.4496 hectoliters
• 1 barrel of beer = 45 small rooms = 8555 Parisian cubic inches = 1.6972 hectoliters
• 1 room (beer) = 190.13 Parisian cubic inches = 3.77154 liters
• 1 quart (beer measure) = 4 mengel (beer) = 0.943 liters
• 1 quart (wine and brandy measure) = 4 mengel (wine) = 0.805 liters
• 1 pound oil measure = 0.551 liters
• 1 barrel of Weser lampreys = 19.5 quart wine measure = 15.705 liters
• 1 Töver (lime measure) = 15.5 cubic feet = 4 baljen = 0.376 cubic meters
• 1 balje (lime measure) 0.094 cubic meters
• 1 large balje (coal measure) = 1.5 cart = 0.149 cubic meters
• 1 small balje (coal measure) = 12 buckets = 0.05 cubic meters
• 1 pound measure (oil) = 27.8 Parisian cubic inches = 0.55152 liters
• 1 hunt (measure of peat) = 560 cubic feet = 13,567 cubic meters

Weights (new)

• 1 Bremen pound = 1 inch pound = 0.5 kilograms
• 1 new ship load = 4000 Bremen inch pounds
• 1 Bremen inch centner (new) = 50 kilograms

Weights (old)

• 1 trading pound = 32 lot = 128 quents = 512 place = 498.5 grams
• 1 quintals = 116 pounds
• 1 freight pound = 300 trading pounds
• 1 stone flax = 20 trading pounds
• 1 stone of wool = 10 trading pounds

literature

• Reinhold Spichal: To each his own - eenem yeden dat syne. Market and measure in history using the example of an old Hanseatic city. Bremen 1990. pp. 108-115
• M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight customers taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvath'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 24