Piece (measure of salt)
Piece was a measure in the salt trade and in the salt works .
The piece of salt could be 1¼, 1½, 2, or 3 bushels in volume. In Prussia , the size of the piece was calculable due to the salt sheffle at 2749 ½ Parisian cubic inches , or 54.54 liters .
For cleaning salt, a setting pan in the salt pans of Schönebeck and Magdeburg had an area of 18 by 16 feet and a depth of 15 inches and had a capacity of 120 pieces. The piece here had 1 ½ salt or Berlin bushels.
In Kösen , for example, a brewery delivered 21 pieces of salt. Here one calculated with the Dresden Metzen and one piece had 16 Metzen. An annual production was 192,000 pieces.
A piece of salt was understood to mean as much salt as was boiled in a pan in one process. Not everywhere was a piece of salt like a basket of salt and then of the same quantity.
- In some places: 1 basket = 2 to 3 bushels
- In Schöningen : 1 basket = 1 muzzle
- In Halle (Saale) : 1 piece of salt = 2 baskets
literature
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 333
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Johann Georg Kruenitz, Friedrich-Jakob Floerke, Heinrich Gustav Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Ludwig Kossarski, Carl Otto Hoffmann: Economic encyclopedia or general system of state, town, house and agriculture in alphabetical order. Volume 134, Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1823, pp. 607, 612.