Coal measure
The coal measure was a measure like the grain , salt or oil measure , a collective term for different individual measures that were mainly used in coal mining and trade.
For example, the size of coal was regulated by law under Maximilian II on December 1, 1570. The important stipulation was the determination of the size at 2 Metzen. The carbon stick was checked every two years and marked with a maker's mark.
The measure was often measured in bulk when volume was dispensed and also applied to lime in different regions. These coal measures are no longer in use today. Coal dimensions differed greatly from region to region, and there was no uniform system across regions. The dimensions used were partly also taken with other parameters for other goods. With the introduction of the metric system , trading is based on weight, such as ton and kilogram .
Also charcoal was traded with it. These coarse goods were not measured across, but mostly in heaps. In the Upper Palatinate , two-wheeled carts were used to transport the charcoal. These were also used as a measure of coal, there called a place . An iron hammer needed 60 plaustris (truckloads) of charcoal per week .
Was in Hamburg
- 1 ton of hard coal struck = 16438 cubic inches (hamb.) = 223.87 liters
Historical coal measurements
- Bellow , Schaumburg-Lippe
- Bucket
- Chalter was a measure in Pomerania for coal and chalder in Sweden.
- Barrel (unit, Trier) , Trier
- Karre , regional German measure ( Duchy of Braunschweig and Zwickau )
- Keel , England
- Coal basket , Switzerland
- Kohlensack (unit) , Munich
- Cripple (unit) , Austria
- Kübel , Switzerland
- Mudde , Netherlands
- bag
- Sahm , Hungary
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Score , an English coal measure
- 1 score = 21 chaldrons (2nd meaning: stairs as a piece of measurement for 20 pieces)
- Stig , a Swedish measure of charcoal
- Stutz , Gotha
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Tain , a charcoal measure in Westphalian
- 1 fuder = 3 tains
- Voie , a French wood and coal measure
- Waque , a coal measure in Hainaut
- Zenge , Westphalia
- Zuber , Germany , Switzerland
literature
- Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 2. Leipzig 1796, p. 1685
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Jäckel: Zementierungslexikon for all traders and tradespeople according to the Austrian cementation documents. Verlag Anton Strauss, Vienna 1824, p. 110.
- ^ Franz Michael Ress (1960): Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers (written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers ). Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf, p. 310.
- ↑ Ludolph Schleier: The commercial science. Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, p. 86.
- ↑ Smaller Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 4, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856, p. 407.
- ^ Franz Woeste: Dictionary of the Westphalian dialect. Hochschulverlag GmbH & Co KG, Bremen 2010, p. 267, ISBN 978-3-86741-596-5 .
- ↑ Johann Christoph Vollbeding: Non-profit dictionary for the correct Germanization and understandable explanation of the foreign expressions occurring in our language. Carl Friedrich Amelang, Berlin 1819, p. 449.