Courage (unity)

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The courage was an Austrian measure of volume and was used as a measure of grain and flour. Equivalent terms as volume and grain measure in other countries were Muid, Muit, Müdd, Müdt, Mütt, Mudden and Mucken.

According to a flour and bread statute of December 1738, the Austrian weight was determined according to the flour types for the line and thus had an influence on the measure of courage. It was a so-called measure of calculation and should always be measured with a cross. It applied to (stated degrees of grinding)

  • Bread flour = 36 pounds for 1 line or 1116 pounds for 1 courage
  • Mouth meal = 37 pounds for 1 line or 1147 pounds for 1 courage
  • Pollmeal = 34 pounds for 1 line or 1,054 pounds for 1 courage
  • Rye flour = 32 pounds for 1 line or 992 pounds for 1 courage

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Muth = 30 Metzen = 60 halves = 120 quarters = 240 eighths = 480 half eighths or miller's cutters = 960 large cutters = 1920 small cutters or fodder cutters = 3840 cups

In the case of lime, calculations were made according to the Kalkmüthel . The measurement took place on August 29, 1772 and was 2 ½ Metze (Austria) in size.

  • 30 Müthel / Kalkmüthel = Muth / Muid = 3 Dreiling = 30 Kalkeimer / Metzen
    • 1 lime bucket = 55.2876 Parisian cubic inches = 1895.11023 liters

In Bavaria was at the lime

  • 1 Muth = 4 bushels = 24 Metzes = 889.415 liters

In Regensburg were for wheat, rye and barley

  • 1 sheep = 4 courage = 4 Mäss = 16 quads = 32 Metzen

and for oats they counted on 56 meats, since 14 courage came to one sheep.

In Bolzano it was a liquid measure and for oil

  • 1 courage = 124 pounds (Prussian), equivalent to about 58 kilograms

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anton wax: Charitable Baurat donors for all labor and material calculations in the building trade. Friedrich Lempsky, Prague 1863, p. 479.
  2. ↑ August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3. Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 473.
  3. ^ Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent states. Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 19.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist, who knows the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside of Europe…. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 559. [1]
  5. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 502.
  6. ^ Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent states. Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 20.
  7. ↑ Anton wax: Charitable Baurat donors for all labor and material calculations in the building trade. Friedrich Lempsky, Prague 1863, p. 387.
  8. ↑ C. Bopp: The international measure, weight and coin agreement through the metric system. Julius Maier, Stuttgart 1869, p. 108.
  9. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1849, p. 999.
  10. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 56.