Commercial measure (straw)

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The trade size with straw was pending on the reference date and was mainly an old piece size . Either one orientated oneself after November 11th ( St. Martin's Day ) or after September 4th and the crowd was bigger or smaller. It also applied to hay . Grain yars set up in the open were named with fins. Depending on the region, other terms such as Fehmen, Fimm, also Feimen, were used. In Hamburg it was called Dymen, in Pomerania with rent , also with Triste or Schober . In Stettin, for example, 100 bundles or 1 shock of straw for roofing 1 foot thick were traded as one bundle.

Relations of measure

Bremen

  • 1 straw = 125 pieces

Szczecin and Stralsund

  • 1 Mollen = 30 bunch of straw
  • 1 Fiemen or Fimm = 100 bundles of straw = 1 shock of straw

Nuremberg

  • 1 stack of straw = 60 bundles of straw = 60 sheaves
  • 1 Schöberlein = 10 bundles of straw = 10 sheaves
  • 1 lap or bunch = 1/60 shock of straw

London

  • 1 load = 36 bundles (truss) of straw = 1296 pounds

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse publishing house, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 420.
  2. ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 419.