Market district (unit)

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The market district was a grain measure in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen .

The market district had 1 quarter and 3 immi. At the main place of the grain trade, the place Rorschach , the measure was in detail:

  • 1 old or market district = 980 Parisian cubic inches = 19.44 liters
  • 1 market district = 964 Paris cubic inches = 19.1223 liters
    • The market quarter was 1.2747 times the Swiss quarter, new.
  • 1 Kornhausviertel = 1041 Parisian cubic inches = 20.6497 liters

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger book, paper and map store, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 264.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official edition, tables for comparing the previously used weights and measures of the Canton of Zurich with the New Swiss Measures and Weights, Orell, Füßli, Zurich 1837, p. 23.
  2. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 1, Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig and the Schumann brothers, Zwickau 1839, p. 517.
  3. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1075.
  4. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 431.