Vaatje

A Vaatje was an East Frisian measure of volume and grain .

The dimensional chain was

• 1 ton = 2 sacks = 4 packs = 16 vatjes = 144 krues

The volume given here is based on Emder values ​​(1 package = 2410 Parisian cubic inches = 47 ¾ liters ). A deviation was possible in other places of its distribution.

• Emden 1 Vaatje = 60.25 Parisian cubic inches = 11.9375 liters
• Norden 1 Vaatje = 9 krues = 1 Moneke = 10.752 liters
• 4 Vaatje = 1 box

See also

• Pack

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg Contorist, who speaks of the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 170.
2. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old mass, coins and weights. Bibliographisches Institut, 1986, p. 333