Remel (measure)
Remel , also Rämel , Rähmel , Ramel , was a German weight measure whose use was limited to northern Germany , the Bremen region . It was a term for bundle. The measure was used at harvest. A jug of sowing should produce at least one remel or a staircase of 20 bottles of flax, but could also be 1 ½ remel.
- 1 remel = 1 bundle ( flax fiber ) = 20 pounds
literature
- Bremische Deutsche Gesellschaft (Eberhard Tiling): An attempt at a Bremen-Lower Saxony dictionary. Volume 3: L – R, Georg Ludewig Förster, Bremen 1768, p. 476.
- Fritz Verdenhalven : Old measurement and currency systems from the German-speaking area. Neustadt an der Aisch. 1993, ISBN 3-7686-1036-5 , p. 46.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Arends: Ostfriesland and Jever: in geographical, statistical and especially agricultural terms. Volume 3, Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung Hannover, Emden 1820, p. 130.