Pipa (unit)

Pipa , also known as pipe , was an oil and wine measure in various regions in Europe . The measure was widespread in Germany , England , Portugal , Spain and also in South America , such as Brazil . The Pipa was comparable to the Mingel in Bremen and the Netherlands .

Germany

• Danzig , Königsberg : 1 pipa / Both = 20,180 Parisian cubic inches = 410 liters
• Lübeck , oil: 1 pipa = 393.385 grams
• Hamburg , wine: 1 pipa = 93 to 100 small rooms = 192 to 200 jugs = 17,495 to 18,225 Parisian cubic inches = 345 to 362 liters

Brazil

• 1 pipa = ½ barrel = 52 cantaros = 312 canhados = 1248 quartillos = 21,940 Parisian cubic inches = 435 liters

England

• London : 1 pipa = ½ tun (wine and brandy) = 1 ½ punchion = 2 hogshends = 3 tierces = 4 barrels = 7 Kilderkins = 126 gallons = 252 pottles = 504 quarts = 1008 pints = 28,850 Parisian cubic inches = 571 ½ liters

Netherlands

In the Netherlands the pipa corresponded to the Mingel or Mengelin.

• Amsterdam : 2 mingels = 1 stoop
  • Brandy, Rhine and Moselle wines: 1 mingel / pipa = 2 pints = 8 musjes = 61 ½ Parisian cubic inches = 1 1/5 liters
  • Beer: 1 mingel = 61 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 1 9/40 liters

Portugal

• Oil and wine: 1 pipa / bota = ½ tonnelada = 26 almudas = 52 alqueiras = 312 canhados = 1248 quartillos = 21,944 Parisian cubic inches = 435 liters

The pipa, also known as pipe, was also a measure of the volume of coal, especially hard coal.

• 1 pipa = 10 baldes = 70 canastras (baskets) = 127 bushels = 3 chaldrons plus 19 bushels = 58.5866 hectoliters
• 48 alqueires = 6 fanga = 1 pipa
• 1 pipa of hard coal = 4 ½ tonneladas weighs ≈ 4 ½ tonnelada (á 54 arrobas = 793.152 kilograms)

Spain

• Canary Islands
  • Wine: 1 pipa = 22,156 Parisian cubic inches = 439 liters
• Castile , Bota in Cádiz, Málaga, Madrid
  • Wine: 1 pipa = 27 Cantaro / large arrobas = 216 acumbres = 664 quartillos = 21,438 Parisian cubic inches = 425 liters
  • Pedro Yimenes wine: 1 pipa = 22 ½ arroba = 17,864 Parisian cubic inches = 357 liters
  • Oil: 1 pipa = 35 Arrobas (small) / Arrobas menor = 21,700 Parisian cubic inches = 430 liters = 403.27 grams (as weight)
• Catalonia
  • Barcelona , wine, brandy: 1 pipa = 4 Crgas = 48 Cortanes (Arrobas) = ​​96 Cortarines = 288 Meitadellas = 24,955 Parisian cubic inches = 494 ½ liters
  • Barcelona and Mallorca , oil: 1 pipa = 107 quartanos / Cortas = 448 quartos = 963 rotoli = 385.236 grams (weight)

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, pp. 198, 253.
• Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher general pocket book of coin, measure and weight for bankers and merchants. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 21.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 510.
2. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight . Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 289.