Globes (unit)

The globes , clusters or tufts, were a piece of the trade in flax in the Hessian Grand Duchy of Fulda . The notions of measure were known as early as 1603 and were no longer in use around 1860/70. In other regions of Germany, such as the Saxon and Westphalian regions, the designation Risse or Riste was common.

• 1 flax globes = 15 chews, chews, knocks (also twisted into edges ) = 90 hands full = 12 to 15 chews / bundles of flax (a larger number possible)

The connection: A Riste, also Reiste in the Hessian dialect, the back of the hand, was a tuft of flax. Five (also six or seven) Ristel (handful) resulted in a chew.

• 1 globes = 66 travelers = 264 handfuls (broken and hacked flax)

literature

• 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, p. 123.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: Business and entertainment book. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 446.
2. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 148.
3. ^ Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers, as well as for businessmen in general: Or a complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1843 p. 114.
4. ^ August Friedrich Christian Vilmar: Idiotikon von Kurhessen . RG Elwert'sche Universitätsbuchhandel, Marburg / Leipzig 1868, p. 329.
5. ↑ Economic notebooks, or collection of news, experiences and observations for the city and farmer. Volume 25, Christian Adolph Hempel, Leipzig 1805, p. 412.