Salt shepherd
The Salzscheffel was a measure of volume in Prussia and often had the prefix “Berliner”. The scope was Geldern .
- 1 salt sheffle = 2749 ½ Parisian cubic inches = 54.54 liters
Salt ships with a crew of three on the way to Ebersburg or Mautern were not allowed to trade in salt on the way . A salt sheffle was due as taxes on the way to the salt market.
literature
- Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg clerk. Volume 1, heirs of the author, Hamburg 1808, p. 206
- Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher: JC Nelkenbrecher general pocket book of coin, measure and weight for bankers and merchants. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1820, p. 124
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Beck: The Middle Ages: A reading book on German history 800-1500. Volume 1235, Verlag CH Beck, 2001 ISBN 3-40645-969-2 , p. 27.