Bener

The Bener was a measure of volume and weight in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . Liquids were measured primarily, especially milk . It was also called the milk measure.

1 Bener = 2 Mass = 4 Quärtlein = 8 large spoons = 16 small spoons = 67 Parisian cubic inches = 1 ⅓ liter

The crutch corresponded to the Quärtlein. Half a gutter was like a large spoon and a quarter gutter of a large gutter was like a small spoon.

Was calculated by weight, was

1 Bener = 4 Krinnen = pound (light Graubündner) = 2773 grams

The ridge had two value ranges: the small and the large ridge. The difference was the size and it amounted to

4 small troughs = 3 large troughs

1 small gutter = 520 ⅜ grams
1 large gutter = 693 4/5 grams

The greater measure was the Rupp .

1 rupp = 12.5 large cranes

A so-called heavy hundredweight had 75 large and 100 small cranes.

The trade weight in Chur (Graubünden) was calculated

1 rupp = 1/6 quintals = 8.674 kilograms

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete handbook of coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world .... Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg 1830, p. 20, 142.
M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measurement and weight studies, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables . Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 51.
Association of practical merchants (ed.): The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers, Volume 2 . Ernst Schäfer Verlag, Leipzig 1857, p. 243.
Johann Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios .... Vol. 1. Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1851.
Carl L. Aldefeld: The dimensions and weights of the German customs union states and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relationships. Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1838.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, mass and weight ratios. Volume 1, p. 184.
↑ Carl L. Aldefeld: The weights and measures of the German customs Association States and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relations , S. 260th
↑ R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, dimensions, weights, counting types and time sizes. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 298.
↑ M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight . Verlag Lenover, Neustrelitz 1994, ISBN 3-930164-01-9 (reprint of the Potsdam 1855 edition).

[1] Johann Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, mass and weight ratios. Volume 1, p. 184.

[2] Carl L. Aldefeld: The weights and measures of the German customs Association States and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relations , S. 260th

[3] R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, dimensions, weights, counting types and time sizes. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 298.

[4] M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight . Verlag Lenover, Neustrelitz 1994, ISBN 3-930164-01-9 (reprint of the Potsdam 1855 edition).