Chest (unit)

The chest was a measure of volume for hard coal . There is obviously a connection between the Thruhe or Thrune, which was an elongated open wooden box used to carry tin ore in various smelting works. In the Swiss was a similar case Trucke and in Austria it was the Truchel. In Bohemia the measure was called truche. There were also spellings with D, such as Druhe or Druche.

• 1 chest = 2 carts
• Bohemia 1 truche = 20 barrel
  • 1 barrel = 2 bushels (Dresdener)

literature

• Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, Johann Christian Heyse: Concise dictionary of the German language. Part 1, Dept. L to Steg. Wilhelm Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1849, p. 1293.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Heinrich Campe: Dictionary of the German language. Volume 4, school bookshop, Braunschweig 1810, p. 900.
2. ^ Alexander von Lengerke: Agricultural conversation lexicon for practitioners and laypeople. Volume 4, JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1838, p. 682.