Heitscheff

Heitscheff was a volume measure and widely used as a grain measure in the Duchy of Schleswig and Denmark . The measure differed according to the type of grain.

• Rye 1 Heitscheff = 5548 Parisian cubic inches = 109 31/33 liters
• Wheat 1 Heitscheff = 5670 Parisian cubic inches = 112 ⅓ liters

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 123
• Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist, who knows 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 1782, p. 506
• Herder's Conversations Lexicon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1855, Volume 3, p. 266
• Stephan Behlen: Real and verbal lexicon of forest and hunting with their auxiliary sciences. Volume 3, Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1842, p. 668