Steften

A Steften was an old Bavarian and Austrian water measure , according to which the annual price for supplied well water was determined. In a narrower sense, it was an indication of the pipe diameter of water pipes that allowed a fixed amount of water to pass through in a unit of time. There was also a water stewardship .

1 Steften = 2 Bavarian measures per minute = 2.18 liters per minute, which corresponds to 0.086 cubic feet per minute = 86 decimal cubic inches per minute
1 Steften = 6 Viennese measure per minute, which corresponds to 8.491 liters of water per minute.

literature

Sebastian Haindl: Machines for road, hydraulic and bridge construction, commercial, factory, agricultural and military, then mining and steelworks. Volume 1, Wolf'schen Buchdruckerei, Munich 1849, p. XIV.

Web links

Drinking water for the city of Salzburg . (Salzburg Steften)

Individual evidence

^ Max von Pettenkofer: The canal or Siel system in Munich: Expert opinion . Manz, 1869, p. 9 ( Steften in Google Book Search).
↑ Ignaz Harrer: The high spring line from the Fürstenbrunnen on the Untersberg to the city of Salzburg . In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . tape 40 . The Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 1900, The water supply of the city of Salzburg until the opening of the Fürstenbrunn high spring pipeline, p. 126 ( anno.onb.ac.at ).

[1] Max von Pettenkofer: The canal or Siel system in Munich: Expert opinion . Manz, 1869, p. 9 ( Steften in Google Book Search).

[2] Ignaz Harrer: The high spring line from the Fürstenbrunnen on the Untersberg to the city of Salzburg . In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . tape 40 . The Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 1900, The water supply of the city of Salzburg until the opening of the Fürstenbrunn high spring pipeline, p. 126 ( anno.onb.ac.at ).