Korzec
Korzec was a Polish measure of volume and corresponded to the bushel . Different spellings and pronunciations, such as Korcec, Korschetz and Koretz, are known from the literature.
The grain size was different in the regions and changed in 1764 and 1819. From 1764 it was 32 bushels or 120.6 liters and from 1819 128 liters.
The dimensional chain was
- Poland, general 1 Korzec = 2 Polkorcow / Half Sheffels = 4 Cwerci / Quarter = 32 Garniec = 128 Kwarta = 512 Kwaterka = 6452 4/5 Parisian cubic inches = 128 liters
- Krakow 1 Korzec = 6054 ½ Parisian cubic inches = 120 liters
- Chernivtsi and Lemberg 1 Korzec = 6200 Parisian cubic inches = 122 liters
In the Koretz spelling it was also a Hungarian volume measure for dry goods (grain measure).
- Zips 1 Koretz = 31.2492 liters
literature
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 141.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 188.