Stuef

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The Stuef (also Stür ) was a mining measure of length in the southern German-Austrian salt mining , where it is proven in Hallein and Dürrnberg . Its length was about 8 cm.

Definition and use

A fathomstick , which was described in 1883 from the model collection of the saltworks administration in Hall , provides information about the definition and size of the stage . After that, this rod is a total of 2,446 m long. It has two different divisions on two sides. One side of the stick was divided into 5 cubits of 6 steps each, the other side of the stick into 160 points . This results in:

  • 1 fathom = 5 cubits = 30 steps = 160 points = 2,446 m
  • 1 cubit = 6 steps = 32 points = 0.4892 m
  • 1 stage = 5 1/3 points = 0.0815 m
  • 1 point is approximately 1.52 cm.

But not only that of the Mark separators Klafterstab used had a subdivision in Stuef on, but especially the mountain bar (Stabel, Bergelle ) with which the mine traveled was. This staff was half a mountain fathom long and usually measured about four feet. Stuef and points were branded.

Other definitions

A similar mountain stick is also described in a letter to Ignaz von Born . However, he states that the cubit was again divided into 20 inches and only then the inch was divided into 6 steps of 5 1/3 points. This would mean the stage would only be 1/20 of the specified value.

Already in 1764 Johann Georg von Lori gave slightly different information . He also divides the cubit into 6 points, but not the cubit into 32 points, but the cubit. This information is taken up again in more recent compilations of dimensions and weights.

In addition, the Saxon Bergelle, which was only defined on a metric basis in 1830, is also expressed in more recent compilations in terms of Stuef and Point. According to this, 1 Bergelle = 2 Lachterfuß = 6 Stuef = 192 points (1 Lachter = 2 m and 1 Bergelle = 2/7 Lachter = 4/7 m = 0.5714).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William of Rottleuthner: The ancient local weights and measures together with the Aichungsvorschriften until the introduction of metric weights and measures system and the state Aich offices in Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Wagner, Innsbruck 1883, p. 33 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Kyselak : Sketches of a foot trip through Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Tyrol and Bavaria to Vienna along with a romantic, picturesque depiction of several knight castles and their folk tales, mountain areas and ice glaciers on this hike, undertaken in 1825 . 1st chapter. Pichler, Vienna 1829, p. 138 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Bergstabel in the German legal dictionary
  4. ↑ Joseph LeNoble of Noble Mountain: Writing about the processing of the salt dome to Hallein in the Salzburg. In: Treatises of a private company in Bohemia, on the inclusion of mathematics, patriotic history, and natural history. 4th volume, 1779 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Johann Georg Lori : Collection of the Bavarian mining law, with an introduction to the Bavarian mining law history. Franz Lorenz Richter Munich 1764, p. 639.
  6. ^ Heinrich Veith : German mountain dictionary with evidence . Korn, Breslau 1871 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Hans-Joachim von Alberti: Mass and weight . Historical and tabular representations from the beginning to the present. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957, DNB  450041034 , p. 237 .
  8. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 304. [1]