Grain barrel

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The grain barrel was a measure of volume in Hamburg . In the order of measures and weights of August 17, 1868 for the North German Confederation , the conversion of the Hamburg measures into the metric was specified:

1 grain barrel = 54.96 liters
- 1 hectolitre = 1.8195 grain barrel

literature

Collection of laws of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Volume 5, year 1869, Th. G. Meissner, 1869, p. 44.
Official journal of the royal government in Schleswig: 1869. Carl Langhoff, Schleswig 1869, p. 326.