Pot (unit)

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The pot , more rarely a pot or jug , is a historical measure of volume that was particularly common in northern Germany ( Mecklenburg ) as well as in Denmark and Norway for solid and liquid things. The measure belongs to the older measures and had a small country difference in size.

  • Generally 2 pots = 1 pot
  • Mecklenburg 1 pot = 0.925 liters
  • Denmark 1 pot = 0.966 liters (0.96612 liters)
    • 100 liters = 103 ½ Potter
    • 1 Oxehoved / Oxhoft = 240 Potter
  • Norway 1 pot = 0.965 liters (0.9653 liters)
    • 1 ohm = 155 Potter = 149.62 liters
    • 1 barrel of fish = 120 Potter = 115.8 liters
    • 1 grain barrel = 144 Potter = 139.12 liters

In Hamburg and Holstein the pot was a manhole measure for earth, with 4 manholes corresponding to one pot (24.099 m 3 ).

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Sonndorfer: Usages and parities of the alcohol trade in world traffic. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-66232-615-2 , p. 2.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Thomas wing: Cours-Zettel continued as a manual of the coin, measure, weight u. Customary customers as well as bills of exchange, banking, government paper and stocks for bankers, merchants. Jäger'schen book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 208.
  2. ^ " Pott " In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, p. 237.