Flood (salt)

Flood is a term used in the salt industry . In the Lüneburg saltworks, this was understood to mean the brine measure on a number of days. This amount of brine from a well was thus fed to the Sülzhaus in the specified period.

A boiling year was calculated with 361 days from January 10th to December 13th (feast day of St. Lucia) and was divided into 13 floods of 26 days. A choir of salt had to be paid for each flood . A prelate choir thus had 13 choirs. The flood was a so-called pension delivery. These pensions have been known since the 13th century. The compulsory portion for the pan owner had to be boiled first.

A salt pan produced six choirs of salt per flood. The master brewer was allowed to take half. With three choirs of salt, a pan could be charged with a pension. The tenants were able to buy things boiled beyond the flood from the boiling master.

literature

• Niels Petersen: The city at the gates: Lüneburg and its surrounding area in the late Middle Ages. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1586-0 , p. 87.
• Reinhard Gresky: The finances of the Guelphs in the 13th and 14th centuries. Volume 22, Verlag August Lax in commission, Hildesheim 1984, p. 9.