Salt basket

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The salt basket , also known locally as the butter basket , was a German measure of volume and weight in the salt pans . A salt basket corresponded to 28 to 30 Metzen (example Nuremberg 1 Salz-Metzen about 16.64 liters ).

In Halle an der Saale , for example, the basket was made of wickerwork, round at the top (1 ½ feet in diameter) and tapering down into the rump (3 feet). The baskets used as a measuring and transport unit had to hold a certain amount of the "hammered" salt. Too small and too large baskets were sent back to the basket maker and could result in punishment. Such a measuring basket held about ten to twelve boil . The salt filled in the baskets was called basket salt after drying . Two filled baskets were a work .

In France , the salt basket was a basket with a handle. This was made from bevelled old wooden boards, which were held together by a sturdy metal bracket. As with sea ​​salt extraction , the basket has been used in its unchanged form in Brittany for centuries until today . Its dimensions were 50 cm long, 31 cm wide and 33 cm high over the 18th century, 19th century and beyond the 20th century.

See also

literature

  • Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 14. Altenburg 1862, p. 826

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Theodor Jablonski, Johann Joachim Schwabe: General Lexicon of Arts and Sciences, or clear description of the realm of nature, the heavens and heavenly bodies, the air, the earth, together with the known plants, animals, stones and ores, the sea and the creatures living in it: Volume 2, Zeisen and Hartung, 1767, p. 1248.
  2. ^ Bernard Heinrich Blasche: The technological childhood friend; or, entertaining walks in the workshops of the artists and craftsmen, for the necessary knowledge of the same. Part 5, Friedrich Wilmans, Frankfurt / Main 1810, p. 108.
  3. ↑ Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobsson, Otto Ludwig Hartwig, Gottfried Erich Rosenthal: Technological dictionary or alphabetical explanation of all useful mechanical arts, manufactories, factories and craftsmen, as well as all works, instruments, tools and artificial words, according to their nature and true use. Volume 3, Friedrich Nicolai, Stettin / Berlin 1783, p. 495.