Thread (wood unit)

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The thread was a measure in the firewood trade next to fathoms and heaps . The size was widespread with

  • 1 thread = 6 feet in height and width and 2 feet in length, making it 72 cubic feet . That was 1.7442 French stars .

To distinguish it, the name of the region was placed in front of the dimension, as there were dimensional deviations. Examples are the Mistberger - and the Hamburger Faden :

  • 1 Mistberger thread = 6 ⅔ feet in length, 8 feet in height with about 41 ½ Parisian square feet ≈ 1.456 stere
  • 1 hamburger thread = 6 ⅔ feet in length and 6 ⅔ feet in height by about 34 4/7 Parisian square feet

In comparison 7 Mistberger Faden = 5 Hamburger Faden, or 5 Mistberger Faden = 6 Faden, in general

Larger items were calculated with the Reep / Reef, the length of which was 4 ½ feet, or 2.45 stars. Other lengths, such as 5 or 6 feet, were also common. It then resulted in 1½ to 2 threads.

In France the thread was called corde and its basic value was

  • 1 thread = 8 feet long by 4 high and 3½ wide = 112 cubic feet

There were different dimensions in Szczecin

  • 1 thread = 7 feet × 7 feet × 3 feet = 147 Rhineland cubic feet = 1 13 ⁄ 36  fathoms (1 fathom = 108 cubic feet)
  • 1 thread = 6½ feet × 7 feet × 3 (3½) feet = 136½ (159¼) cubic feet ≈ 123 ⅓ (143¼) Parisian cubic feet

The Mecklenburg thread deviated and its basic dimensions were taking into account the Lübeck foot

  • 1 thread = 7 or 8 feet long and high, 2 to 5 feet log length = 98 to 245 cubic feet ≈ 70.45 to 176.173 Paris cubic feet

The Russian and English threads for firewood were the same and the dimensions were

  • 1 thread = 9 feet × 8 feet × 2 feet = 144 cubic feet (Russian / English) = 144 ⁄ 343 cubic bags (1 bag = 7 feet) ≈ 0.4198 cubic bags ≈ 4.0774 stere (French) (1 ster = 1 cubic meter )

See also

literature

Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moses Heinemann: The well-trained clerk and businessman. Verlag Wilhelm Schüppel, Berlin 1834, p. 206.
  2. ↑ 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. 198.
  3. ↑ Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger book, paper and map shop. Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 122.
  4. ↑ 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. 123.
  5. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 285.
  6. ↑ Carl LW Aldefeld: The dimensions and weights of the German Customs Association States and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relations. Verlag JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1838, p. 170.
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 86.
  8. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 86.
  9. ^ Association of practical merchants: Latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers: Volume 2. Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 445.