Piece barrel
The barrels , often shortened to pieces, are an outdated measure of volume that was named after the container for wine . The old wine measure was around 10–12 hectoliters for Rhine wine . A barrel was different from region to region, but a guideline would be 1½ loaders , or 7½ ohms , or 15 buckets . In France , the wine container was smaller and called Pièce . If the piece of wine is 8 ohms, the load is half a piece, or 4 ohms.
Frankfurt am Main
- 1 barrel = 8 ohms = 58,201.8 Parisian cubic inches = 1154.5 liters
Leipzig
- 1 barrel = 5 buckets = 14,868 Parisian cubic inches = 293.6 liters
Nuremberg
- 1 barrel = 15 buckets = 51,581 Parisian cubic inches = 1022.25 liters
The barrels could vary between 15 and 15 ½ bucket visor size with Rheinwein.
Denmark
- 1 barrel = 7 ½ ohms = 30 anchors = 300 small rooms = 56,613.75 Parisian cubic inches = 1121.88 liters
According to other sources, it was called Stykfad in Danish and was the largest Danish wine measure.
- 1 Stykfad = 5 Oxehoveder / Oxhoft = 1123.114 liters, also 1170 Potter = 1130.26 liters
literature
- Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, pp. 466-467
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 332