Vierdup

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The Vierdup , also Vierup or Veerp , was an old Emden grain measure .

  • 1 Vierdup = 2 cubic feet (hanoveraner) = 1 3/5 himten (hanoveraner) = 49.84265 liters
  • 1 load = 60 quadruple
  • 1 jug = 1/36 Veerp = 1.3845 liters (as a liquid measure)
  • 1 load = 15 tons = 30 sacks = 60 Vierdup = 120 bushels = 240 kegs = 216 jugs / kroes / krues
  • 1 Vierup = 36 jugs
  • 1 Vierup = 2382.5 Parisian cubic inches , also 2804 Parisian cubic inches in other regions

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight ..., Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 176 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 236 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Vierdup . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 18 . Altenburg 1864, p. 576 ( zeno.org ).