Röhrli

The Röhrli or Salzfässli was a Swiss measure of volume and a measure of salt in Winterthur . The name comes from the narrow, long barrels in which the salt was transported.

1 tube = 4 measures = 16 quarters or = 10 old quarters

Individual evidence

^ Bruno W. Fritzsche: The Zurich salt trade in the 17th century: The development of a state monopoly . Dissertation printer Leemann, Zurich 1964.
^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1524.
^ Oswald Heer, JJ Blumer-Heer: The canton of Glarus: historically-geographically-statistically portrayed from the oldest times to the present. Huber and company, Sankt Gallen / Bern 1846, p. 479.

[1] Bruno W. Fritzsche: The Zurich salt trade in the 17th century: The development of a state monopoly . Dissertation printer Leemann, Zurich 1964.

[2] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1524.

[3] Oswald Heer, JJ Blumer-Heer: The canton of Glarus: historically-geographically-statistically portrayed from the oldest times to the present. Huber and company, Sankt Gallen / Bern 1846, p. 479.