Balje (unit)
Balje was a volume measure for hard coal in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. A distinction was made between the small Balje and the large Balje. The Balje as a lime measure depending on the Töver had a different volume measure. The coal measure was already mentioned in the decree of January 16, 1837 as a relation to the Schaumburg mountain measure.
- 144 small baloons = 1 mountain load (Schaumburger) = 3534 cubic inches
- 48 large baloons = 1 mountain load (Schaumburger) = 10602 cubic inches
Bremen dimensions
- 1 large bag = 3 small bags = 0.149 cubic meters = 148.64 liters
- 1 small balje = 0.05 cubic meters = 49.55 liters
- 1 cart = 0.1 cubic meter = 99.1 liters
- 1 bucket = 0.0124 cubic meters = 12.39 liters
Conclusion:
- 1 cubic meter = 6.728 large baloons
- 1 cubic meter = 20,183 small balloons
- 1 cubic meter = 10.1 carts
- 1 cubic meter = 80,732 buckets
See also
literature
- Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau: Compilation of the regulations issued in relation to the conversion of the Bremen mass, weights and coins into the mass, weights and coins of the German Empire. In: Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen: Treatises of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen. Volume 3, C. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1872, p. 354 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- Law Gazette of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1869. Schünemann, Bremen 1870, p. 137.