Zealand bin

The unit of volume known as the Zealand ton was the Danish measure for dry goods such as grain . It was a so-called sowing measure , which was established on January 28, 1820 by a royal resolution .

• 1 Zeeland bin = 8 bushels = 32 quarters = 64 Otting / Oetting = 144 Pottler / Pott / Potter / Krug = 7013 (7007) Parisian cubic inches = 139.11 liters (calculated)

See also

• Barrel

literature

• Andreas C. Gudme: Schleswig-Holstein: a statistical-geographical-topographical representation of these duchies according to printed and unprinted sources. Statistics of both duchies with 26 tables , Volume 1, Universitätsbuchhandlung, Kiel 1833, p. 366.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander von Lengerke: Agricultural statistics of the German federal states. Volume 1, Verlag Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1840, p. 254.