Steekan

The Steekan , also known as a water jug , was a Dutch measure of liquid and its size was dependent on the goods. In Bremen it was an oil and train measure and in Hamburg only a train measure. The Steekan as a wine measure did not apply to French, Spanish and Portuguese wines, these were measured according to the Oxhoft (180 Mengelen) and Tierze (120 Mengelen), or according to Booten / Both and Pipen (340 Mengelen).

• Wine measure
  • 1 Steekan = 8 Stoopen = 16 Mengelen = 32 Pints = 64 Mutsjes = 978.15 Parisian cubic inches = 19.403 liters
  • 8 Steekan = 1 Aam
  • 2 steekan = 1 anchor
• Oil measure
  • Rapeseed oil , linseed oil , hemp oil 1 Aam = 7 ½ Steekan = 120 Mengelen = 145.523 liters
  • Olive oil 1 vat = 117 mengelen
  • Cod liver oil 1 Quardeel = 12 Steekan = 192 Mengelen
• Beer measure
  • 1 Steekan = 16 Mengelen = 990.9 Parisian cubic inches = 19.656 liters
  • 8 steekan = 1 ton
• Brandy measure
  • 1 Steekan = 2 ½ Firtel = 15 Mengelen = 945.23 Parisian cubic inches = 18.75 liters
  • 12 Steekan = 30 Firtel = 1 Oxhoft

literature

• Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 16. Altenburg 1863, p. 720.
• Georg Kaspar Chelius, Johann Friedrich Hauschild, Heinrich Christian Schumacher: Measure and weight book. Verlag Jäger'sche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 88.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial sciences, containing: coin, measure and weight, bills of exchange, government paper, banking and stock exchange; the most important of higher arithmetic […]. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 247.
2. ^ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher F. Wolff: General pocket book of measure, weight and coinage. Sandersche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1842, p. 16.
3. ↑ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1849, p. 38.