Innerberger barrel

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The Innerberger Faß and the Vordernberger Faß were Austrian measures of volume. They were used as coal measures in particular in Styria . Named after the places Innerberg, today's Eisenerz and Vordernberg . Both places were important settlements of large iron works .

Both dimensions differed by a Viennese mason . The former was 5, the latter 4 Wiener Metzen. A Metzen had about 79.86 liters, according to another source about 61 liters

  • 1 Vorderberger barrel = 4 Metzen (Wiener) = 7.78 cubic feet
  • 1 Innerberger barrel = 5 Metzen (Wiener) = 9.73 cubic feet

See also

literature

  • August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3 Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 558

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 118