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
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

in Denmark as a unit of weight
- until the middle of 1861 1 Kvintin (Quentchen) = 4 places to 16 Es to 8 grains; 1 place = 0.9191 grams as coin weight or 0.977 grams as retail weight
- from mid-1861 1 pound = 100 kvintin = 1000 place; 1 place = 0.5 grams
in Sweden as a commercial weight
- 1 pound = 100 place; 1 place = 4,251 grams

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.