Anchor

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The anchor was a measure of liquid in Northern Germany , Sweden , the Netherlands , Denmark and England and had different values. It was a so-called wine measure .

  • Amsterdam 4 anchors = 1 ohm = 155 liters
  • Lesser Antilles (Dutch) 1 anchor = as in the Netherlands (for wine)
  • Birkenfeld 1 anchor = as in Prussia
  • Braunschweig 1 anchor = 37.74737 liters
  • Bremen 1 anchor = 36.7241 liters
  • Chile 1 anchor = 34.067 liters
  • Denmark , usually 1 anchor = 37.6787 liters
    • legally 1 anchor = 37.4372 liters
  • Emden 1 anchor = 38.7939 liters
    • 1 anchor for 40 quarters (hannover.) For 18 ⅛ jug / jug for 4 places for 4 quarters / Mäßchen
  • England 1 anchor = 45.4346 liters
  • Gotha 1 anchor = 20 cans = 1.819 times 20 liters (36.38 liters)
  • Hamburg 1 anchor = 36.15 liters
    • 4 anchors = 1 ohm = 144.6 liters
    • 1 anchor = 1 ¼ bucket
  • Hannover 1 anchor = 38.93957 liters
    • 4 anchors = 1 ohm = 155.76 liters
  • Holland 1 anchor = 38.806 liters
  • Jever (Oldenburg) 1 anchor = 68.4034 liters (for beer)
  • Kapland 1 anchor = like in Holland
    • 1 anchor with 2 plug-in cans with 8 stoppers (flask) with 2 mengelen with 2 pintjes with 4 mutjes
  • Kleve 1 anchor = 35.676 liters
  • Copenhagen 4 anchors = 1 ohm
    • 1 anchor = 39 pots
    • 1 Oxhoft = 6 anchors = 234 pots
    • l anchor = 40 pots (1 pot = 0.96612 liters)
  • Königsberg , older 1 anchor = 42.79 liters
    • 4 anchors = 1 ohm = 171 liters
    • newer 1 anchor = 34.7351 liters
  • Leipzig 1 anchor = 37.926 liters
  • Libau 1 anchor = 38.256 liters
  • Lippe-Detmold 1 anchor = 37.1579 liters
  • Schaumburg-Lippe 1 anchor = 34.48 liters
  • Lübeck , 1 anchor = 36.3752 liters
  • Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1 anchor = 36.1 liters
  • Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1 anchor = as in M, -Schw.
  • Mitan 1 anchor = 35.796 liters (for wine)
  • Narva 1 anchor = 38.682 liters
  • Norway 1 anchor = 37.405 liters
  • Oldenburg 1 anchor = 35.698 liters
  • Pernau 1 anchor = 38.682 liters
  • Prussia 1 anchor = ½ bucket = 30 quart = 34.35 liters
  • Reval 1 anchor = 37.664 liters
  • Riga 1 anchor = 38.256 liters
    • 12 anchors = 60 quarters = 6 buckets plus 14 quarters (Prussian).
  • Russia 1 anchor = 36.897 liters
  • Saxony 1 anchor = 33.68117 liters
  • Sachsen-Gotha 1 anchor = 36.38 liters
  • Schleswig-Holstein 1 anchor = as in Hamburg
  • older in Sweden 1 anchor = 1 Ankar
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literature

  • Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 1, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 79.

Individual evidence

  1. Gustav Adolph Jahn: Dictionary of Applied Mathematics: a manual for use in studies and practical operations in those sciences, arts and trades which require applications of pure mathematics. Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 66.
  2. ^ Association of practical merchants (ed.): The latest illustrated trade and goods dictionary or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 1. Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 551.
  3. stadt-land-oldenburg.de
  4. Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 9.