Uperken

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Uperken was a small volume measure for liquids in the Brussels region .

  • Wine : 1 Uperken = 0.3385 liters
  • Wine: 1 Foudre = 6 Aimes = 144 Schreves = 288 Geltes = 576 Wine Pots = 1152 Pintes / Pot Wallons = 2304 Uperkens = 39316.8449 Parisian Cubic Inches = 779.904 liters
  • Beer : 1 Uperken = 0.32496 liters
  • Beer: 1 Ohm / Aime = 50 Stoop = 100 Pots = 200 Pintes = 400 Uperken = 1600 Verres / Glasses = 6552.8074 Parisian cubic inches = 129.984 liters (equals the Wine Ohm)

literature

  • Anton Wach: Non-profit building adviser for all work and material calculations in the building sector: with the addition of the most frequently used formulas. F. Tempsky, Prague 1855, p. 301.
  • Johann Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, government papers, bills of exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places , Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 171.