Quarter one

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Viertelein was a measure of volume in Germany and Switzerland (see also Vierteli ). In the Kingdom of Württemberg it was a grain measure and it was calculated:

  • 1 quarter one = 8 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 2/11 liters = 0.18 liters (exactly 0.17307 liters)
  • 4 quarters = 1 corner / small
  • 32 quarter one = 1 four of a kind
  • 128 quarter one = 1 Simmer / Simri
  • 1024 quarters = 1 bushel
  • 1 liter = 5.7769 quarters

As a measure of liquid in the Swiss canton of Friborg , the measure with pint was and was

  • 1 bottle = 19 2/5 Parisian cubic inches = ⅜ liters = about 0.38 liters

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, pp. 305, 368
  • War Ministry: Army Ordinance Sheet. Volume 5, printed and distributed by Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1871, p. 8.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Koller (edited): Archives of the North German Confederation: Yearbook for State Administrative Law and Diplomacy of the North German Confederation and the Customs Union: with enclosures containing: Constitutions and laws of other states. Volume 2, Verlag Fr. Kortkampf, Berlin 1869, p. 367