Metzen (measure of capacity)

A stone mason in Gars am Kamp

The Metzen is the name of a measure of capacity for grain and salt of various sizes. It was a measure of volume in southern Germany , Moravia , Austria and Hungary . In Hungary and Lower Austria it was also a field measure. With Meste (plural mitten ) and the vessel in the appropriate size was designated.

Acreage

When the field measure were

• 1 Metzen = 1919 ⁴ ⁄ ₉ square meters = ³ ⁄ ₄ acres (Preuss.)

Measure of capacity

As a measure of grain , the Metzen was very different in the different regions:

• Kingdom of Bavaria 1 Metzen Grain = 34 ² ⁄ ₃  Maass cans = 37.0596 liters
• Haßfurt 1 Metzen Grain = 27 ⁴ ⁄ ₅  liters and oats = 41 liters
• Marburg (regional name of the measure as Meste):
  • 1 Meste = 4 Sester = 16 Meste = 25.946 liters , about 26 liters
  • 1 Mötte = 4 Meste = 5232 Parisian cubic inches = 103.784 liters
• Marktbreit 1 Metzen Grain = 23 ¹ ⁄ ₃  liters and oats = 35 liters
• Ochsenfurt 1 Metzen Grain = 22 ¹ ⁄ ₅  liters and oats = 34 ¹ ⁄ ₆  liters
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1 Marktscheffel = 96 Metzen

As can be seen from contemporary reports, the Metzen was also used for other goods. In the Berlin Official Gazette, for example, there is a notice of the production volumes of silk breeders, in which the volumes of the silk cocoons are given in metzes.

Other conditions:

• Braunschweig : 8.24225 liters
• Austria : 61.487 liters. - From 1595 the Welser Metzen holds around 75 liters.
• Prussia : 3.435 liters
• Saxony : 6.499 liters
• Nuremberg units of measurement :
  • Korn-Metzen: 20.5 liters
  • Oat Metzen: 19.2 liters
  • Salz-Metzen: 16.64 liters

Special forms

• 1 thirty-two = ¹ ⁄ ₃₂ Metzen = 1.158 liters
• In Austria for (wood) coal from 1858 to 1876: 1 Zweimetzen = 2 Metzen (Wiener) = 1 Stübich / Stibich = 0.12297 cubic meters

See also

• Slut

Web links

Commons : Metzen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Metzen in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ) ( direct link Metzen ).
• Metzen In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition, 1905–1909.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Season sale at Hermann Tietz , advertisement in the Vossische Zeitung , July 12, 1925, p. 12 (second column: Mesten ).
2. ↑ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 193.
3. ↑ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 194.
4. ↑ Journal of the Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau, first year 1869, p. 140: "Official compilation of the ratios for the conversion of the measurements and weights that have been valid in Bavaria in this part of the Rhine into those stipulated by the law of April 29, 1869, concerning the Maas and weight system , determined new measurements and weights.
5. ↑ Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jägersche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 306.
6. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin, Potsdam 1850, p. 216 ff.
7. ^ August Blind: Measure, coin and weight systems. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1923, p. 22
8. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 354.