Sweet (unit)

Sweet was a measure of weight and salt in the salt works . A salt works often had three or four pans per boiling house and the entire sotteted contents of each pan were called sweet. With three pans it was 52 sweet.

• 1 sweet = 49.76 liters or as weight = 15.12 kilograms
• 36 sweet = 1 wispel
• 12 sweet = 1 fuder
• ½ sweet = 1 bushel
• 3 sweet = 1 rump = 45.36 kilograms

literature

• Nicolaus Staphorst: Hamburg Church History. Part 1 of Volume 4, Theodor Christoph Felginer's widow, Hamburg 1731, p. 858.
• Albert Zimmermann, Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem: Mensura. 1st half volume, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1983, p. 247, ISBN 978-31108-596-14 .