Wine measure

The term wine measure , like salt measure , beer measure or grain measure, stands for a rough assignment of old measures and weights to the units with which the commercial good wine was measured.

The measure for wine was a measure of volume and very different from region to region. The dimensional chains were also very different. Many dimensions often only differed by the name or spelling that is typical for the country, for example Kanne , Kann, Kannl or Mass, Maß , Maßl. The volume measure was often not allowed to be used for other liquids, such as beer or oil , and if so, then the quantities were different, for example the liquid measure in Wiesbaden with different cubic inches:

1 wine measure = 85.434 Parisian cubic inches
1 beer measure = 95.063 Paris cubic inches

Examples of wine measure

Examples of wine measures are Amphora , Brente and Corba or Anker , Eimer , Oxhoft , Ohme or Aich Maß.

Wine was often measured differently in retail than in wholesale. There were terms such as the tap measure or gift measure in retail, the light measure or just measure (gauge) in wholesale and cloudy measure .

To better identify the measure used, these terms were placed in front of the volume measure. For example, light oak or wine buckets in Bayreuth , Visireimer or Visir Maß in Augsburg.

Wine knife

For the official supervision of the wine measure in cities a separate office was occasionally set up, for which the designation "mensurator" in Latin sources and in German-language records "weinmesser" (about 1420 in Bolzano ) became naturalized.

literature

Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 1. Altenburg 1857, p. 227.
Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 19. Altenburg 1865, p. 51.
Adelung : Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 1460.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Peter Heuser : About bourgeois measures and weights ..., Elberfeld 1839, p. 25
^ Johann Baptist Eckl: Applied arithmetic for use in Latin and secondary schools. Verlag JJ Lentner'sche Buchhandlung, Munich 1861, p. 277
^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 59-60, no. 957 .

[1] Johann Peter Heuser : About bourgeois measures and weights ..., Elberfeld 1839, p. 25

[2] Johann Baptist Eckl: Applied arithmetic for use in Latin and secondary schools. Verlag JJ Lentner'sche Buchhandlung, Munich 1861, p. 277

[3] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 59-60, no. 957 .