Gescheid

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The Gescheid was a grain measure in southern Germany, especially in the Principality of Hesse . In the regions where it was used, it was almost always the 64th part of the painter and the measure was so-called “painted”.

The dimensional chain was general

  • 1 Malter = 4 Simmers = 16 Küampf = 64 Gescheide = 256 Mäßchen

The dimensions Simmer , Kumpf and Mäßchen can often be replaced by regional terms ( Sester , Sechter, Viersel, Metze , Meste ...), but their number always remained in this ratio. The amount for 1 Gescheid depended on the size of the malters and varied between 1.7 and 2 liters .

  • Hanau 1 Gescheid = 1/64 × 122.12 liters = 1.908125 liters
  • Darmstadt 1 Gescheid = 1/64 × 128 liters = 2.0000 liters
  • Frankfurt am Main 1 Gescheid = 1/64 × 114.729 liters = 1.79264 liters
  • Mainz 1 Gescheid = 1/64 × 109.387 liters = 1.709172 liters

A quarter dress code has also been used for little ones . The exception was made in Limburg. Here the painter had 12 Simmers with 8 Gescheid each. The painter's 96th part was to be expected here.

  • Limburg / Lahn 1 Gescheid = 1/96 × 200.022 liters = 2.0835625 liters

In Idstein, Malter corresponds to the eighth note, is structured with 6 Simmer a '8 Gescheid and has 6686.4 Parisian cubic inches

  • Idstein 1 Gescheid = 1/64 × 133.348 liters = 2.0835625 liters

literature

  • 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, pp. 45, 80, 135.
  • Georg Thomas Flügel: Course list continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Publisher LF Huber Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, pp. 106, 136, 179.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 107.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1488.