Mummenfass
Mummenfass or Mummefass was called the barrel for Mumme in the Duchy of Braunschweig , a type of beer from Braunschweig that originally contained a lot of alcohol . In Magdeburg , the Mummefass was used to store and transport the "Magdeburg city beer". The volume was 100 to 105 small rooms (about 375 to 395 liters ).
Ludeke Krage , the mayor of Braunschweiger Neustadt , is said to have fled the city in the direction of Hanover in a barrel during the “ uproar of poverty ” in 1513 .
literature
- Wolfgang Janz: Hahndorfer stories & history. Volume 1, BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, p. 176, ISBN 978-3-8391-3779-6
- Heinz Ziegler: Studies on dealing with number, measure and weight in Northern Europe since the High Middle Ages. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen 1997, p. 113, ISBN 978-3-89590-044-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Rathmann : History of the City of Magdeburg from its first emergence to the present day. Volume 3, Johann Adam Creutz, Magdeburg 1803, p. 488.
- ^ Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer : History of the German trade. Volume 2, Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung , Hanover 1797, p. 669.
- ^ Oscar Mothes : Illustrirtes Bau-Lexikon . Volume 2, Otto Spamer, Leipzig and Berlin 1866, p. 497.
- ↑ Werner Spieß : History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages. From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491–1671 , Volume 1, Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Braunschweig 1966, p. 240.
- ^ Association for Low German Language Research: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. 1884, p. 88.