Chair (unit)
Chair was a measure of volume in the Halle salt pans for the brine. The term is derived from the number of brine wells that were called a chair. The following was calculated depending on the well:
- German fountain = 32 chairs
- 1 chair = 4 quart or cup = 48 pans = 1920 buckets
- 1 quart = 12 pans = 60 Zober = 480 buckets = 5760 cans
- Hackeborn fountain = 2 chairs
- 1 chair = 16 noses = 120 pans
- 26 place = 6 pans plus 2 place = 1 Nösel = 24 Zober
- Good (h) year fountain = 12 chairs
- 1 pan = 4 places
- 1 chair = 7 quart
- 1 quart = 12 pans
- Meteritz fountain = 4 chairs
- 1 chair = 20 quart
- 1 quart = 2 Nösel = 10 Zober = 19 pans
literature
- Smaller Brockhaus'sches conversation lexicon for manual use. Volume 4, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856, p. 539.
- Johannis Theodori Jablonski: General Lexici of the Arts and Sciences etc .. Volume 2, Hartung, 1748, p. 1159.
- Great complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts, which bisshero were invented and improved by human intellect and wit. Volume 24, Johann Heinrich Zedler, Leipzig / Halle 1740, p. 1165.