Place (unit)
The place was a hollow and weight measure as well as a coin unit, originally and often later the fourth part of a larger unit.
Measure of capacity
- In Oldenburg as a wine measure
- 1 jug = 4 places = 16 helpers
- 1 wine jug = 69 Paris cubic inches
- 1 anchor = 104 place = 35.586 liters
- 1 place = 0.3422 liters
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East Frisia and Meppen
- 1 jug (unit) = 4 places = 16 quarter places / Maatjes = 1.38452 liters
- 1 place = 0.346 liters
- In Lübeck as a wine measure
- 1 quarter / boutrille = 2 planks = 4 places = 0.9363 liters
- 1 place = 0.234 liters
- in Hanover
- a quarter or jug = 4 place; 1 place = 0.446 liters
- in Lippe-Detmold
- 1 jug = 2 half jugs = 4 place = 98 cubic inches ; 1 place = 0.344055 liters
Weight measure
- in Denmark as a unit of weight
- in Sweden as a commercial weight
- 1 pound = 100 place; 1 place = 4,251 grams
Coinage
- In coinage up to around 1200 the fourth part of a denarius , then a Reichstaler
- in Cologne = ½ Herrengulden
- in Norway = ¼ guilder
- in Denmark = 24 shillings
- in Zurich = 4 Batzen or 10 Schilling
- in Mecklenburg = 3 pfennigs
- in Brabant and Kleve = ¼ Pater or 4 Pfennig
See also
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. Stuttgart, Verlag von J. Engelhorn, 1863, pages 118, 243, 329, 588
- 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 Europe. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 387
- Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent countries. Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 65 ff.