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The stick was a measure of volume for firewood . It was common in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and in the Free City of Frankfurt . The measure could be divided into half and quarter. It was introduced in 1821.

The Frankfurter Stecken was an iron-studded square wooden frame with an edge length of 3.554 Werkschuh . In the conventional billet length 3 working shoe to a volume of 37.893 cubic shoe or 0.8736 gave Ster . 2 sticks formed a Gilbert , the usual trade amount. In the case of fir sawn timber for the bakers, 3 sticks instead of the usual 2 were counted as one Gilbert. Depending on whether the timber trade took place on the banks of the Main or on the wood magazine, it was customary to add a few bonus failures to the measured stake , namely 2 in the magazine or 7 on the banks of the Main. The main Gilbert thus differed from the magazine Gilbert.

In certain, unspecified cases, the Mainzer Stecken was used instead of the Frankfurter Stecken at the timber trade on the banks of the Main . It was made according to the old Aschaffenburg measure and contained 82.742 Frankfurter Kubikwerkschuh or 1.908 stereos.

In the Frankfurt city forest , measurements were not made with a stick, but with a fathom . A fathom of firewood for selling wood in the forest had 126 cubic work shoes or 2.905 stereos, while a fathom of 156 cubic work shoes (3.597 stereos) was used for the salary wood. 4 fathoms each formed a joint , both for the commercial fathers and for the salary fathers. The Forstamts-Holzmagazin used its own fathom, which measured 112.578 cubic shoes or almost exactly 3 sticks (2.595 stere).

In Darmstadt :

  • 1 stick = 100 cubic feet, with a log length of 40 or 50 inches = 1.5625 stars
  • 1 star = 0.64 stereos, i.e. 64 stereos = 100 stere (French)
  • 1 piece of wood measure = 3.554 shoe wide and high, while the log length was 3 feet with an allowance that made up 2 logs in municipal wood stores, otherwise 6 logs.

Mainz stick

  • 1 Mainzer Stecken = 82.742 cubic work shoe = 1.908 stere, the condition for this connection was 20.48 square work shoe, the length of the bill = 4.041 work shoe

Compare:

  • 24 Frankfurt routes = 11 Mainz routes
  • 22 Frankfurt routes = 13 Darmstadt routes
  • 18 Frankfurt sticks = 5 Bavarian fathoms
  • 18 Mainz sticks = 11 Bavarian fathoms

literature

  • Georg Thomas Flügel: Course list continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Publisher LF Huber Verlag der Jägerschen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859.
  • Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jägersche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, pp. 7-10. online in the google book search
  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight…. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold Einsle: Systematic compilation of the most excellent European measures, weights and coins…. Publishing house Jof. Kösel'sche Buchhandlung, Kempten 1846, p. 66.
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 326.
  3. ↑ The Frankfurter Werkschuh, a copper standard from 1777, measured 0.2846 meters