Straw (unit)

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Straw was an ancient measure for different things.

The dimensional chain for straw was general:

  • 1 Wall = 80 shock = 48 Fimm = 160 Moller / Mollen = 4800 Schöfen / Bund
    • 6 wall = 1 straw

Bremen

  • 1 load = 20 straw
  • 1 straw = 125 smoked herrings or kippers (120)

Hildesheim

  • 1 load = 20 straw kippers

Stralsund

  • 1 straw = 6 walls = 480 shock (bundle of straw)

Rostock

  • 1 Fimm straw = 100 bunches (1 w = 10 pounds (Rostocker))

Nuremberg

  • 1 Schober of straw = 6 Schöberlein = 60 bundles

Szczecin

  • 1 straw = 6 walls = 480 shock (bundle of straw)
  • 1 Moller = 40 pieces / bunch of Noback straw = 30 pieces

Pomerania

  • 1 moller = 30 pieces / bunch of straw
  • 1 Fimm = 100 Schöfe (Schöf / Schof: term for a prepared bundle of deck straw)

The bundle of decking straw was supposed to cover 1 square foot of roof area and was 1 foot thick.

(Sources below)

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's handbook of coin, measure and weight, for merchants and traders. Joh. Jak. Mäcken, Reutlingen 1834, p. 664.
  2. ↑ Anton wax: Charitable Baurathgeber for all labor and material calculations Baufache. Friedrich Lempsky, Prague 1863 p. 427.
  3. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Verlag von J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, page 20.
  4. ^ Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 586.
  5. ↑ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the bills of exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places: Petersburg - Zwoll: Supplements: Alessandria - Zurich. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1056.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi: Earth description of the Prussian monarchy. Volume 1, Hemmerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1791, p. 178.