Vaam (unit)

Vaam was a measure of volume for liquids in the Jever rule .

The beer measure , which also applied to wine , brandy and vinegar , had the measure chain

• 1 ton = 4 anchors = 28 Vaam = 112 cans = 448 place
• 1 Vaam = 4 jugs
  • Jever: 1 jug (grain) = 70.8428 Parisian cubic inches = 1.40527 liters

Other meanings:

Vaam or Vadem , also Wisse , is the Dutch name for the volume measure of 1 cubic meter .

As a measure of length, the Dutch thread was a Vaam and was 6 feet or 834.8 Paris lines , which was about 1,883 meters .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Kohli: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg together with the inheritance of Jever, and the two principalities of Lübeck and Birkenfeld. Volume 1, Wilhelm Kaiser, Bremen 1824, p. 205.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Noback: General Börsen- u. Comptoirbuch: Containing the entire stock, fund, monetary system, bills of exchange and Money course, change law, dimensions, weights, usages etc. Appendix: Telegraph, post and Insurance. Volume 3, Adolf Gumprecht, Leipzig 1862, p. 30.
3. ↑ For silver: The coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world are calculated individually according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measurements and weights, along with details of the trading centers and their billing ratios. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 454.
4. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 333.
5. ↑ Gustav Adolph Jahn: Dictionary of applied mathematics: a manual for use. Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 417.