Trabucco (unit)
The Trabucco was a measure of length and varied in size depending on the region. The measure always corresponded to 6 pieces, the locally valid foot . It was similar to the fathom measure . At the same time, the Trabucco was used to measure areas and bodies and to differentiate it was called square tabucco / Trabucco quadrato and for bodies Mauer-Trabucco / Trabucco di muro . The latter was a trabucco in length and breadth, but the height was only ten times.
Alessandria (Piedmont)
- 1 Piedi = 211.14 Parisian line = 0.47630 meters corresponds to 2.8578 meters for a Trabucco
Sicily
Here it was called Trabucco sarda and
- 1 Trabucco sarda = 12 Palmi = 1396.38 Parisian lines = 3.15 meters
In comparison with the measure valid in Piedmont : 1 to 1.02187 Trabucco Piemont There was also an older Trabucco here, which was only 3.082596 meters.
Turin and Milan
In Turin and Milan , calculations were not made with the Piede manuale (0.34251 meters), but with the older Piede liprando and thus had
- 1 Trabucco = 6 Piedi liprandi = 3.082596 meters
- 1 Piedi liprando = 12 Once = 144 Ponti / points = 1728 Atomi = 227.7504 Parisian lines = 0.51376597 meters
- 1 Trabucco = 2.61111 meters
- 1 wall trabucco = 4.068365 cubic meters
Nice
- 1 Trabucco quadrato = 12 Palmi quadrati = 10.044 square meters
Lugano
The measure was also known in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It was dependent on the cubit, the Brazetto / Braccio, and that in turn was determined by the goods to be measured. So by Tuchelle , Seidenelle and similar special cubits. Other sources count the Brazeti at the Ticino foot at 0.5 meters.
- 1 Trabuco = 5 Brazeti = 2.50 meters
Padua
- 1 Trabucco = 6 Piedi = 2.837 meters
literature
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 354.
- Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855.