Shard (unit)

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Under fragment (also: Schirbe or Schiebel) was understood Harz mine Rammelsberg in Goslar generally a container of defined dimensions, and it should be a so-called Stollenmaß about 1 Scheffel , respectively.

The vessel used as a cart was a wooden box with the dimensions:

  • Length: 1 ¼ cubits ; Width: ¾ cubits; Height: ½ cubit

and was called a shard cart because it grabbed a shard. It was used to measure the driven gears.

In another application, the shards were used in ore smelting to determine the amount of slag. Schirbel was also called a piece of fresh iron . Derived from the shard cart, the unit of mass was also given the name. The measure of two carts weighed 3 ¼ to 3 ½ quintals

  • 70 to 90 of this measure resulted in 1 drift

In the Kingdom of Hanover , coal and lime were the standard

  • 1 shard = 29 inches long by 19 inches wide by 13½ inches high = 4.3 cubic feet

See also

literature

  • Joachim Heinrich Campe : Dictionary of the German language . S and T (with a supplement). tape 4 . School bookshop, Braunschweig 1810, p. 122-146 .
  • Theodor Heinsius : Folk dictionary of the German language . tape 4 . Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1822, p. 192 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Christian Burckhardt : Forest auxiliary boards. III. Department, Carl Rümpler , Hannover 1858, p. 26.