Animal

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The animal was primarily a liquid measure in France , Germany , Great Britain and Denmark . Other spellings were Tierze, Tierce, Tierzon and Tiercon . It was especially reserved for wine , brandy and vinegar, and it was also suitable for honey .

France

the rule was different in Bordeaux

  • 1 animal = 21 ⅓ Veltes / Viertel = 73 ½ pots = 7664 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 151.9 liters
  • 1 barrique / Oxhoft = 1 ½ animal
  • 1 tonneau = 6 animals (wine or honey)

Denmark

  • 1 animal = 4 anchors = 155 pots = 620 pals
  • 1 animal = 7548 ½ Parisian cubic inches = 149 3/5 liters
  • 1 animal = 1 Oxhoft
  • 3 animals = 1 pipe
  • 6 animals = 1 barrel

Germany

  • Hamburg 1 barrel = 6 terci
  • Bremen 1 animal = 144.97 liters
  • Bremen 1 Oxhoft = 1 ½ Tierze / Ahm = 6 anchors = 30 quarters = 67 ½ rooms
  • Bremen 1 room = 3.22147 liters

Great Britain

In contrast to the above areas, the tierce was also used in Great Britain to indicate the quantity of salted meat on ships.

  • 1 tierce salt meat (pork) = 260 pounds (later from around the beginning of the 19th century: 300 pounds)
  • 1 tierce salt meat (beef) = 280 pounds (later from around the beginning of the 19th century: 336 pounds)

Tierce was also a wine measure in England.

  • 1 tierce = 9616 7/89 Parisian cubic inches = 180 4/7 liters
  • 1 ½ tierce = 1 hogshead
  • 2 tierce = 1 punchion
  • 1 tierce (port wine) = ⅓ pipe = 42 gallons
  • 3 tierce = 1 pipe
  • 6 tierce = 1 doing
  • 1 tierce = 1 ⅓ barrel
  • 1 tierce = 2 ⅓ Kilderkin = 42 gallons = 84 pottles = 168 quarts = 336 pints

Others

literature

  • Scholars' associations: General German conversation lexicon for the educated of every class. Volume 2, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1840, p. 329.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 345.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist, who speaks of the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. , Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 303.
  3. ↑ Karl Rumler: Overview of the dimensions, weights, etc. Currencies of the finest states. , Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 46.
  4. ↑ a b c Peter Kemp (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea . 1st edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1976, ISBN 0-19-211553-7 , pp. 870 (971 pp.).
  5. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 21.