Room (unit)

The little room was a German measure of liquid , especially for wine , brandy and beer . The size was dependent on region and fluid. In southern Germany it was called Stauf .

Braunschweig

Dimensions for beer

• 1 barrel had 4 tons or 108 small rooms

Dimensions for wine and brandy

• 1 anchor had 10 small rooms

Bremen

Dimensions for beer

• 1 room = 377.154 centiliters = 190.13 Parisian cubic inches .

• 1 ton had 45 rooms or 180 quarters. The 94.288 centiliter quart had 4 deficiencies
• ½ ton had 23 rooms and ¼ ton had 12 rooms.

Dimensions for wine and brandy

• 1 room = 322.144 centiliters = 162.4 Parisian cubic inches.

Hamburg

• 1 room = 361 centiliters = 182 Parisian cubic inches.

Erfurt

Dimensions for beer

• 1 bucket (7365 centiliters) had 18 beer stalls

Dimensions for wine and brandy

• 1 bucket (7093 centiliters) had 21 wine bars

Both rooms had the same division into smaller units: 1 room corresponded to 2 jugs , 4 Mas or 8 Nösel.

A Nösel had a different amount of centiliters:

• 1 pint of beer = 51.146 centiliters = 25.784 Parisian cubic inches
• 1 wine bottle = 42.223 centiliters = 21.286 Parisian cubic inches

For milk, oil and other liquids, the measure of the beer peel was taken.

Hanover

Dimensions for beer

• 1 barrel of beer had 52 rooms or 104 jugs

Dimensions for wine and brandy

• 1 anchor corresponded to 10 small rooms, or 40 quarters.
• The quarter with 98.039 centiliters had 2 nosel here .

Hildesheim

Dimensions for beer

• 1 room = 377.1 centiliters = 190.1 Parisian cubic inches .
• 1 ton = 15,048 centiliters = 40 rooms and one room had 4 quarters .
• 100 small rooms were 2 ½ tons, which corresponded to 1 barrel.

Dimensions for wine and brandy

• 1 room = 333.25 centiliters = 168 Parisian cubic inches.
• 1 anchor had 10 small rooms

Rostock

• Here a bucket had 4 quarters, the quarter with 2 small rooms.
• 1 room = 2 jugs
• The pot was calculated with 2 pot, that is, it was 181 centiliters.

The pot was a Mecklenburg liquid measure with later different smaller amounts in the regions.

Dimensions for beer

• 1 ton of beer = 4 quarters , the quarter with 16 cans

Spain

In Galicia the little room was also a measure for wine. It was called Olla and it corresponded to:

• 1 olla = 7 ³ ⁄ ₁₀ Prussian quart

• 1 olla = 4 acumbres = 17 quartillos = 340 large oncia = 421 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 8 ⅓ liters
• 4 ollas = 1 canado
• 16 ollas = 1 moyo

literature

• Andreas Döring: Wirth! Another two quarters of the room! Braunschweig restaurants & Braunschweig beer back then. Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-923696-84-1 .
• Chelius Georg Kaspar, Georg Kaspar; Hauschild, Johann Friedrich; Schumacher, Heinrich Christian: Measure and Weight Book , Frankfurt am Main 1830, pp. 118 f., 122 f., 144, 178, 180, 188, 198, 325 ( digitized book available at Google Books )
• Heinz Ziegler: Old weights and measures in the state of Braunschweig. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch 50, 1969, ISSN  0068-0745 , pp. 128-163.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 351.
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, page 213.