Cup (unit)

The cup was a measure of volume in various German-speaking regions, but also in the Netherlands as well as in Italy.

Switzerland

• Basel 1 cup = 101 ⅞ Parisian cubic inches = 2 liters
  • 2 cups = 1 cup
  • 8 cups = 1 bushel
  • 16 cups = 1 sester
  • 64 cups = 1 sack
  • 128 cups = 1 Vienzel
• Lucerne 1 cup = 109 ½ Parisian cubic inches = 2 4/25 liters
  • 1 cup = 10 primes
  • 1 3/5 cups = 1 immi
  • 16 cups = 1 quarter
  • 64 cups = 1 mat
  • 256 cups = 1 painter

• Bern wine measure 1 cup = 1 measure = 1 pint
• Zurich oil and honey measure 1 cup = ½ measure

Germany

All types of grain

• Braunschweig 1 cup = 97 4/5 Parisian cubic inches = 1 19/20 liters
  • 4 cups / holes = 1 four-barrel
  • 16 cups = 1 himpten
  • 160 cups = 1 bushel
  • 640 cups = 1 wispel
• Grand Duchy of Baden ( Karlsruhe ) 1 cup = 7 14/25 Parisian cubic inches = 3/20 liters
  • 10 cups = 1 cup
  • 100 cups = 1 sester
  • 1000 cups = 1 painter
  • 1500 cups = 1 tub
• Munster 1 cup = 6 little cups = 97 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 1 19/20 liters
  • 12 cups = 1 bushel (Münsteraner)
  • 144 cups = 1 painter

These dimensions were valid alongside the Prussian ones

• Osnabrück and Lippstadt 1 cup = 97 13/25 Parisian cubic inches = 1.93 liters
  • 1 cup = 1/12 bushel
  • 1 cup = 4 cups (Viennese)

Only oats

• Tauberbischofsheim 1 cup = 737 ⅓ Parisian cubic inches = 14 3/5 liters
• Lauda 1 cup = 698 3/10 Parisian cubic inches = 13 21/25 liters
• Gronsveld (Netherlands) 1 cup = 882 7/10 Parisian cubic inches = 17 3/5 liters
  • other grain according to Metzen

Austria

• Vienna 1 cup = 24 11/50 Parisian cubic inches = 13/25 liters
  • 2 cups = 1 food measure / quarter measure
  • 4 cups = 1 half-gauge
  • 8 cups = 1 gouge
  • 16 cups = 1 eighth
  • 32 cups = 1 quarter
  • 128 cups = 1 Metzen

The measure itself can also be divided into half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth and thirty-second cups.

See also

• Cup (Boccali, Boccale, Bocale) as an Italian measure of volume and liquid

literature

• Heinrich August Pierer : Universal encyclopedia of the present and past or the latest encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts: Volume 4, HA Pierer, Altenburg 1841, p. 50.
• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 19.