Dry measure
As a dry basis is called hollow extent that for measuring dry materials such as grain , lime were used etc., as opposed to liquid dimensions , so hollow measures with which the volume of liquids were measured. Today, as a rule, no distinction is made between dryness and liquidity.
In the past, different dry measurements were often used for different fabrics.
A common dry measure in Germany was z. B. the painter .
The size of the Malters and the other dimensions also differed from place to place.
Speyer painters and other dry measures
The pain was z. B. in the Speyer system of measurements for heavy or smooth fruit around 1802 approx. 128 liters today. Divided it was heavy and smooth fruit in 4 Viernzel = 8 Simmer = 32 Immel = 128 Seßling or Mäßlein .
With light and rough fruit, a painter in the same year 1802 had around 144 current liters . This Malter then had 9 Simmer = 36 Immel = 144 Seßling
If, on the other hand, it was lime, a painter again had 128 liters. One painter corresponds to 5 wheelbarrows = 20 buckets . Four painters were a mother .
Still other names and subdivisions have been used for salt . The term sack was used for a unit of 128 liters . A salt barrel was 3.5 sacks, a hat 2 sacks. 216 sacks were a hundred salt or 24 fardels or 108 hats.
Wood was measured in fathoms (6 feet high, 6 feet wide, and 3.5 feet deep, or 126 cubic feet) (one foot = 28.8 cm).
See also
Individual proof
- ^ Fritz Klotz: Speyer Small City History . District group Speyer of the Historical Association of the Palatinate, 1971, 4th exp. Edition, pages 66/67.