Quartanes

The quartane was a Swiss measure of volume in the cantons of Graubünden and Valais and was widely used as a measure of grain .

Grisons

The mass chain for the Bündner Quartane (Rhaeto-Romanic curtauna or curtana ) was

• 1 Lädi = 8 Mütt = 44 quarters = 176 quartans = 704 Mässli
• 1 quartane = 378 Paris cubic inches = 7.5 liters
• 1 quarter = 4 quarters
• 1 Mütt = 22 quartans
• 1 Lädi = 176 quartanes

Valais

The quartanée was derived from a grain measure, a surface measure for fields and comprised 3.8 to 5.2 ares. In the Trient valley in Lower Valais, the kartanà contained 15.3 liters, the same as the quarteron in the Bex area in the canton of Vaud .

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weight of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse publishing house, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830
• Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Verlag Teubner, Leipzig 1855, p. 185.

Web links

• Anne-Marie Dubler : Quartane. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 88.
2. ^ Anne-Marie Dubler: Quartane. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .