Diethaufe

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The Diethaufe and Diethäuflein were a Nuremberg volume measure for grain .

  • 1 Diethaufe = around 5.1 liters (4.971 liters)

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Simmer / Simra = 2 Malter / Scheffel = 16 Metzen / Strich = 64 Diethaufe = 128 Diethäuflein / Gescheid = 256 Maß
  • 1 Grain Metzen = 4 Diet heaps = 8 Diet heaps = 20.5 liters
  • 1 diet pile = 2 diet pile = 4 measure

literature

  • Johann Ferdinand Roth: Non-profit lexicon for readers of all classes, especially for those who have not studied. Rengersche Buchhandlung, Halle 1807, p. 216
  • Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 1. Leipzig 1793, p. 1495.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 468
  2. ↑ Eucharius Ferdinand Christian Oertel: Non-profit foreign dictionary for the explanation and Germanization of the foreign words and expressions occurring in our language, explained according to their spelling, pronunciation, origin and meaning from old and new languages. Volume 2, WG Gassert, Ansbach 1830, p. 972.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist, who speaks of the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 420