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Spann was a Swedish volume measure for dry goods ( grain measure ) and in Germany a length measure in mining .

Sweden

The measure was used for coal , grain , malt , salt , lime and other dry goods. If the goods were measured instead of being staggered, a surcharge was added to the measure. This increased the number to 19 kappar / caps per instep (lime and salt 17 kappar, grain 18 kappar, malt 19 kappar).

  • 1 span = 2 half span = 4 quarters / fjerdingar = 16 kappar / caps = 28 cans / Kannor = 56 stoop / stop = 224 quarter / qvarter = 896 place = 3693 Parisian cubic inches = 73.256 liters
  • generally 2 spans = 1 ton / tunna = 146.563 liters

Values ​​for 2 spans or 1 tonne / tunna taking into account the goods

  • 1 ton of grain = 63 Kannar = 164.883 liters
  • 1 ton of malt = 66 ½ Kannar = 174.043 liters
  • 1 ton of lime, salt = 59 ½ Kannar = 155.723 liters

Germany

In the Duchy of Braunschweig the length measure of tension was used in mining from 1838 and was a smaller measure of the laugh .

  • 1 instep = 10 laughing inches

The inch was decimally divided into 10 primes and 10 seconds each. The Lachter currently had 8 insteps = 1.91926 meters.

See also

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. 492.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 40.
  2. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 415.
  3. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 268.
  4. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 78.
  5. ↑ August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 574.