Cornickel

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Cornickel was a measure of firewood in Prussia .

  • 1 cornickel = 3 feet high by 3 feet wide by 5 foot long loaf = 45 cubic feet
  • 1 eighth = 9 feet high by 8 feet wide by 5 feet long cock (in ordinary measure) = 360 cubic feet
  • 1 eighth = 4 quarters, 1 quarter = 2 cornickels

literature

  • Johann Daniel Friedrich Rumpf : The latest Prussian legislation on the obligation to military service, the liberation and discharge from the same and the care of the discharged . G. Hayn, Berlin 1819, pp. 229-230

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig von Baczko : An attempt at a history and description of Königsberg. Grebbels and Unzer, Königsberg 1804, p. 393. [1]