Weir (unit)

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Wehr was a German area measure in mining . Depending on the size of the laugher , the following dimensions also changed. The following dimensions were most commonly used:

  • 1 weir = 2 fiefdoms
  • 1 fiefdom = 7 laughs long and wide = 49 square laughs
  • 4 fiefs = 1 size = 2 weirs
  • 3 weirs = 1 treasure trove
  • In Eisleben 1 fiefdom was on the raft = 66 laughers long and 22 laughers wide = ¼ treasure trove

In the true sense of the word, fiefs were the rights to the pits and facilities that were transferred. The most valuable were the main fiefs, the so-called treasure troves. The opposite were the minor loans.

literature

  • Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 121
  • Johann Georg Krünitz , Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Friedrich Jakob Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth: Economic Encyclopedia or General System of the Land, House and State Economy. Volume 69, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1796, p. 55