Bacon weight
According to the bacon weight , goods such as butter , meat products and tallow were weighed.
At the city level of Frankfurt / Main this weight was characterized by different values. If the goods were sold by the hundredweight , it was the heavyweight and one hundredweight was 100 pounds . Sold by the pound, it was called lightweight, and 1 quintal was now 117 ¾ pounds. The pound weighed 33 lots .
Generally speaking, the commercial cent was 100 pounds heavy and 108 pounds light. Variations in light weight: for the spice weight 109.5 pounds, for 140 pounds of flour and malt weight 144 pounds, for hay and straw weights 117.75 pounds (equal to the weight of bacon) and for fish the pound with 35 loth.
In Frankfurt there were a large number (around 14) different types of weight of this form, such as the wool scale, spice weight, flour and malt weight, and hay and straw weight, which were gradually abolished and reduced to about eight with the introduction of the customs union .
literature
- Gustav Adolph Jahn : Dictionary of applied mathematics. A manual for use. Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 572.
- CLW Aldefeld: The dimensions and weights of the German customs union states and many other countries and trading centers in their mutual relationships. Verlag JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1838, p. 54.
- Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 22.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 266.