Slant (unit)

Replica of the old wood volume measure "Schragen" in the forest adventure center "Waldhusche" in Hinterhermsdorf

The tray was a Saxon volume measure for wood . Primarily for firewood, it was also used for other types of wood. In old records of the timber trade, a distinction was made between firewood , free wood, brewing wood, backwood and merchant wood and sold to Schragen.

1 Schragen = 3 fathoms = 7.35832 Ster
1 fathom was 6 feet high, 6 feet wide and 3 feet long and was 108 cubic feet = 2.4528 stars
Leipzig 1 Schragen = 378 cubic building feet (leipz.) = 248 5/9 Parisian cubic feet = 8 13/25 cubic meters

The dimensions of the Schragen in Leipzig were:

Length: 3 fathoms = 96 cubits = 18 construction feet (leipz.)

Height: 1 fathom = 6 feet

Log length = 1 ¾ cubits = 3 ½ feet

literature

Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight ... Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 172

Individual evidence

↑ Carl Wilhelm Hering : History of the Saxon Highlands: with special reference to the Lauterstein office ... Volume 3, Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1827 ( digitized version ), accessed on October 31, 2017.
^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 306.

[1] Carl Wilhelm Hering : History of the Saxon Highlands: with special reference to the Lauterstein office ... Volume 3, Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1827 ( digitized version ), accessed on October 31, 2017.

[2] Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 306.