Head (unit)

Head was a Swiss measure of liquid and was primarily used in the cantons of Glarus and Zurich . Drinks, like wine , were measured here. In Aachen it was a grain measure .

Glarus

• 1 bucket = 4 quarters = 30 heads = 60 measurements
• 1 measure = 177.932 centiliters = 89.7 Parisian cubic inches

Zurich

In general, a head was divided into 2 measures or 8 bottles, also called stumps. The reference to 1 quarter (fourth part of the bucket) was dependent on the type of liquid and it applied to that

• true measure 1 quarter = 7 ½ head and for that
• cloudy measure 1 quarter = measure 8 head.
• 1 measure corresponded to 182.49 centiliters, which gave a bucket (louder) of 10,948.4 centiliters or cloudy 11,679.4 centiliters.

Aachen

In Aachen it was a grain size and

• 1 Malter = 6 barrels or 24 heads
• 1 barrel = 2470.8 centiliters = 1245.6 Parisian cubic inches

As a grain measure, head was also named with sack or coupe .

Kingdom of Netherlands

Here the liter was called Kop , which means head.

literature

• Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange-government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Verlag von J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart, 1863, pages 51, 140, 167, 260, 330.
• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, page 48.
• Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830, pages 86, 237, 272.
• Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist: which one of the currencies…. Hamburg 1732, page 26, 451.