Stutz (unit)

A Stutz , also Stotz or Kohlenstutz, was a German volume measure for charcoal and was used in Saxe-Gotha .

The dimension was measured in a conical shape: at the top 5 shoe and 9 inches , at the bottom 5 shoe and 7 inches. The height, or rather the depth, of the measuring cup was 1 shoe and 6 inches.

8 stubs = 1 fuder
1 Stutz = 6950 Parisian cubic inches = 137 ¾ liters
1 stutz = 3 quarters (Gothic)

According to another source it was

1 Stotz = 6 grain quarters (Gotha) = 8.294106 cubic feet (Wiener) = 261.9708 liters

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Anton Wach: Non-profit building advisor for all work and material calculations in the building industry. Friedrich Tempsky, Prague 1863, p. 441.
↑ Joachim Heinrich Campe: Dictionary of the German language: S and T (together with a supplement). School bookshop, Braunschweig 1810, Volume 4, p. 742.
↑ Friedrich Albrecht Niemann : Complete manual of the coins, measures, and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 334.

[Wach-1] A ^b Anton Wach: Non-profit building advisor for all work and material calculations in the building industry. Friedrich Tempsky, Prague 1863, p. 441.

[2] Joachim Heinrich Campe: Dictionary of the German language: S and T (together with a supplement). School bookshop, Braunschweig 1810, Volume 4, p. 742.

[3] Friedrich Albrecht Niemann : Complete manual of the coins, measures, and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 334.