Sixth

Sechsting , also Sechsling, was a Bavarian measure of volume and was considered the measure of grain in Passau .

• 1 sixth = 16,065 Parisian cubic inches = 319 liters , equivalent to 423 pounds (Bavarian)
• 1 sheep = 6 sixths

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 310.
• Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 15, Altenburg 1862, p. 723.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 310.
2. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke , Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 54, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1810, p. 755.