Schinek

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Schinek was in the Banat , an area that today extends over three countries, a measure of volume and weight with three different sizes. It was used for dry goods ( grain measure).

  • 1 Schinek, large = 80 Okka / Oka = 180 pounds (Viennese)
  • 1 Schinek, medium = 60 Okka / Oka = 135 pounds (Viennese)
  • 1 Schinek, smaller = 50 Okka / Oka = 112 ½ pounds (Wiener)

The common Okka / Oka in the Banat, Slavonia and Croatia , but also in the area of ​​the Transylvanian military border, had 80.387 Paris cubic feet or 1.5946 liters in volume or as a unit of weight 2 ¼ Vienna pounds with 561.288 grams / Vienna pound, i.e. 1262.899 Gram .

literature

  • Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 890
  • Johann Michael Leuchs: The office science 3rd part: The complete money, coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Verlag E. Leuchs and Komp., Nuremberg 1834, p. 198