Load

The load was a volume measure common in the Rhineland for the wine trade, which was officially still in effect in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

It was a so-called wine measure, but could also be used for brandy and vinegar . It was one of the measures known as old measure. The load was derived from the piece or barrel of wine.

1 load = ½ piece / barrels of wine .
1 piece of wine = 8 ohms (Frankfurter) = 7230.7 Parisian cubic inches

The piece was dependent on the type of wine and

for white wine 1 barrel = 7.5 ohms and
for red wine = 8 ohms,

so that the load red wine = 4 ohms. A distinction was made between local and foreign wines, such as Rhine wine , Malaga wine and Muscat wine .

For orientation

1 load of wine = 6 ohms

literature

Christian Nelkenbrecher: JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, pp. 198, 309

Individual proof

^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 275

[1] Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 275