Legger

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The legger or leaguer was a Dutch liquid measure . The measure was particularly next wine the arrack reserved. Had in Amsterdam

In the English administered South Africa and in Ceylon the Dutch measurements were valid until 1852:

  • 1 legger = 126.63 imperial gallons

The Wein-Legger = 75 Veltes / Welts = 150 old English gallons (160 were also calculated) = 300 Canades = 600 Quarts = 9600 Drams

  • 1 Legger = 567.78 liters

In Pondicherry , a French overseas possession in the East Indies , the Legger or Legre had 70 to 75 Parisian Veltes.

In Colombo the Legger had = 567.78 liters. 1 Legger was bought here with 80 Veltes, but sold with 75.

On Java , a former Dutch property, a Legger with Arrak = 4 Ahn = 388 jugs - the jug or can was calculated with 1.491 liters and 579.508 liters.

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. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863.
  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight ..., Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean B. Juvigny, Adolph Gutbier: Textbook of commercial arithmetic. Georg Franz Verlag, Munich 1847, p. 347
  2. ↑ M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 105
  3. ↑ Gustav Adolph Jahn: Dictionary of applied mathematics: a manual for use ..., Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 748
  4. ↑ M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 34