Pot (unit)

The pot or the garnet (not to be confused with the Russian garnet ), also Garnitze or Garniec, was a Silesian liquid and grain measure . It corresponded to the size of the jug . Depending on the region, the measure of measure fluctuated and so had

in Krakow
- 1 pot / garnet = 4 quart / Kwarta = 16 Quartierlein / Quartiri / Kwarterka = 193.7728 Parisian cubic inches = 3.84375 liters ,
in Wroclaw
- 1 bucket = 20 pots, or 80 quart × 0.69342 liters (34.957 Parisian cubic inches) = 55.4736 liters. The pot here only had 2.77368 liters.

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world [...]. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 353.
Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863.

Individual evidence

^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios [...]. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 166.

[1] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios [...]. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 166.