Pound salt

Pound salt was a measure of weight in the salt trade in Regensburg .

• 1 pound salt = 8 shillings = 240 slices
• 1 disc = 1.5 quintals = 152.5 Viennese pounds
• 1 puff = 11 slices of salt or 11,000 pieces

The unit of 3 ships, so-called Schwemmer , was designated as a train , which were 124 feet long and particularly suitable for transporting salt.

literature

• Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher: Pocket book of the latest coin, measure and weight constitution of all countries and places of their types of exchange, Usi respectage, public banks, trade fairs and other institutions and objects belonging to the action. Gottfried Haase, Prague 1809, p. 318