Küpfli

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Küpfli (Küpflein, Kopf) was an old Swiss grain measure in the canton of Basel .

4 Küpfli were a Müttli, or Muid, a so-called little sester . The big sester had 8 kettles or 34 ⅛ liters.

  • 1 Küpfli = mug = 203 ⅔ Parisian cubic inches = 4 liters
  • 32 Küpfli = 1 sack = 6520 Parisian cubic inches
  • 1 tired / bushel = 4 tubs
  • 1 sack = 8 tired = 32 tubs = 64 cups = 0.1293 liters
  • 1 cup = 4.043 liters

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. … By D. Friedr. Alb. Niemann. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 145.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Scholz, Klaus Vogelsang: Units, symbols, sizes . Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1991, p. 223, ISBN 3-343-00500-2 .
  2. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 .