Quarter (unit)
The quarter is an old German unit.
Counting and piece size
In Speyer, the quarter was a counting and piece measure. The measure has been known since the 16th century, especially in the egg trade . The direct number applied up to twenty eggs, above which one calculated according to the multiple of the quarter. For example, two quarters were 50 pieces, five quarters were 125 pieces. This bill went to eleven quarters with 275 pieces.
A quarter of pegs was also equivalent to 25 pieces. Half a quarter was set at 13 pieces. Four quarters had 104 pieces. 13 pieces and 104 pieces are based on the original value of the quarter with 26 pieces as the basic size.
The measure was also known in the crayfish trade .
- 1 quarter = 25 pieces
Volume measure
The quarter was also a common measure of volume for liquids. In the Free City of Frankfurt a quarter was the twentieth part of an ohm , corresponding to 7.172 liters. In the order of measures and weights of August 17, 1868 for the North German Confederation , the conversion of the Hamburg measures into the metric was specified:
- 1 quarter = 7.2455 liters
- 1 hectolitre = 100 liters = 13.802 quarters
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Kleinschmidt: Eating and drinking in the early modern imperial city of Speyer. Waxmann Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2587-3 , pp. 187, 313, 314.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold Einsle: Systematic compilation of the most excellent European measures, weights and coins. Jos. Kösel'sche Buchhandlung, Kempten 1846, pp. 122–124.
- ↑ Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Third edition. Verlag der Jägerschen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, with additions by Johann Friedrich Hauschild and a preface by Heinrich Christian Schumacher ; online in the google book search
- ^ Collection of laws of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Volume 5, year 1869, Th. G. Meissner, 1869, p. 44.