Oxhoft

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The Oxhoft , also Oxhoofd , is an old volume measure for liquids. The measure was used especially for wine , brandy and beer . Its distribution can be described with western France , the Netherlands , northern Germany , Austria , Sweden and Russian Baltic provinces . Depending on the region, an Oxhoft is understood to have a volume of 148 to 288 liters . But the type of alcohol also influenced the size.

The name is derived from the Dutch Oxhoofd (ox head or ox head) and stems from the fact that hoses made of cowhide were used to store wine in the past. It corresponds to the English hogshead and the French barrique . Today, Oxhoft barrels are rarely used for wine production, as the French barrique has established itself internationally . For example, in the Austrian Burgenland or in the Australian Barossa Valley , Oxhoft barrels are still used to a significant extent in wine production.

Example of a north German (Hamburg, Lübeck) dimensional chain

  • 1 Oxhoft = 1½ ohms = 6 anchors = 30 quarters = 180 quarters

For French wines, the quarter was expected to be 8 quarters or 8 bottles in the countries of the area of ​​validity, but it must be noted that here small differences to the former legal quarter could not be ruled out. With French wines one calculated

Examples

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight . Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1854, p. 223.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 221.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Coin, Measure and Weight Book : Money, Measure and Exchange, the courses, government papers, banks, commercial establishments and customs of all states and important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 261.

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