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OLD MEASUREMENTS
UNITS
Some of the measurements units used in Banat during the XVIII-XIX Century:
Distances:
1 Wiener Linie / linie vienezã = 2,195 mm
1 Wiener Zoll / tol = 12 linie = 2,634 cm
1 Wiener Schuh [Wiener Fuß] / foot / picioare = 12 zoll = 144 linie
= 0,316 m
1 österreichische Elle / cot = 0,779 m
1 Wiener Klafter/stânjeni vienezi = 6 foot / 6 picioare = 1,8964
m
1 Postmeile [Landesmeile, deutsche Meile] / milã postalã
/ postal mile = 4000 stânjeni = 7,5859 km
Land:
1 Joch / iugãr [or lante] = 1600 Wiener Klefter2 / stânjeni
vienezi2 = 5751,7 m2
1 Joch [Tagwerk] zu 1600 Quadratklafter = 0,575 ha = 1,43 acres
1/4 Joch = 9 Ketten / chains = 1 Viertel
9 Ketten / chains = 1 Viertel = 1/4 Joch
1 Acker / acre = 0,41 ha = 1 acre
1 Session [Ansässigkeit] = 4 Viertel / 4 quarters = 1 Joch = 0,575
ha = 1,43 acres
1/2 Session [Halbe Ansässigkeit] = 2 Viertel / 2 quarters = 1/2 Joch
1 Hufe = 10 ha = 24,71 acres
1 Ar = 100 qm = 120 square yards
1 Hektar / hectare [ha] = 100 Ar = 2,471 acres
1 Wiener Kadastraljoch / iugãr cadastral vienez = 0,575 ha
1 Quadratklafter/ square fathom / stânjen pãtrat = 3,5966
m2 = 4,3 square yards
1 Quadratfuß / square foot / picior la pãtrat = 999,565 cm2
1 Quadratmeile / square mile / milã pãtratã = 57,56
km2
1 Motike [200 Quadratklafter] = 72 Ar = 0,18 acres
1 Viertel [400 Quadratklafter] / quarter = 144 Ar = 0,36 acres
1 Morgen = 0,26 ha = 0,64 acres
Volume & Weight:
1 Kibikklafter / stânjen cub = 216 picioare cub = 6,822 m3
1 Wiener Metze / miertã vienezã [majã] = 61,487 l
1 österreichisches Maß /mãsura = 1,414 l
1 Zentner / centenar = 100 livre / livrã = 56,006 kg
1 Pfund / funt / livra = 32 loth = 0,56 kg / 560 g
1 Wiener Lot/Loth [loton] = 18 gran =17,54 g
1 Unze / uncie = 29,82 g
1 Gran / gran = 0,97 g
Money:
1 Mark [of silver or gold] / mãrca de aur sau argint = 233,947
g
1 Florin [fl.] = 60 Kreuzer / creitari up to 1860 and 100 kreuzer after
1860
1 ducat of gold / de aur = 2 fl. 9 Kreuzer
1 Taler = 2 florin
1 Guilder / Gulden = 2/3 taler; after 1892 the Krone / coroana replace
the gulden.
More on the coins & currencies used in Banat on Helmut
Flacker's Web Site and in Francis
J. Gerner's comment [& pictures!].
Some Prices in Banat's XVIII Century:
| Year |
Grain
[1 metze]
|
Barley
[1 metze]
|
Oat
[1 metze]
|
Corn
[1 metze]
|
Beef
[1 Pfund]
|
Pork
[1 Pfund]
|
| 1720 |
|
|
|
|
4 cr |
|
| 1723 |
|
|
|
|
2 cr |
|
| 1724 |
24-26 cr |
24 cr |
|
|
1 ½ cr |
|
| 1726 |
|
51 cr |
|
|
|
|
| 1727 |
42 cr-1 fl |
18 cr |
|
|
|
4 cr |
| 1728 |
30 cr |
27 cr |
|
|
1 ½ cr |
|
| 1729 |
|
|
|
|
1 ½ cr |
2 cr |
| 1731 |
|
|
|
|
2 cr |
|
| 1733 |
|
24 cr |
21 cr |
|
|
|
| 1734 |
|
|
|
|
2 cr |
|
| 1735 |
30-34 cr |
|
|
|
1 ½ cr |
|
| 1736 |
|
|
|
|
2 cr |
|
| 1737 |
42 cr |
|
|
24 cr |
2 cr |
|
| 1738 |
|
|
|
|
3 cr |
|
| 1739 |
42 cr |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1740 |
42 cr |
24 cr |
21 cr |
18 cr |
4-6 cr |
|
| 1741 |
1 fl |
30 cr |
21 cr |
|
|
|
| 1743 |
|
|
|
|
2-3 cr |
|
| 1744 |
42 cr |
27 cr |
24 cr |
18 cr |
|
|
| 1748 |
30 cr |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1749 |
30-45 cr |
|
|
|
|
|
| 1750 |
42 cr |
|
|
|
3 cr |
|
| 1752 |
|
|
|
24 cr |
2 cr |
|
| 1753 |
36-45 cr |
21-24 cr |
18-30 cr |
|
1 ½ cr |
|
| 1754 |
42 cr |
24 cr |
21 cr |
24 cr |
1 ½ cr |
|
| 1758 |
|
29 ½ cr |
|
|
|
|
| 1759 |
|
30 cr |
|
|
|
|
| 1760 |
36 cr |
|
|
|
3 cr |
|
| 1770 |
|
|
|
24 cr |
|
|
| 1776 |
|
|
|
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3 ½ cr |
|
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Other examples for payments and prices in the XIX Century on Helmut
Flacker's Web Site.
Notes:
The metrical system of measurement was introduced in Banat on January
1, 1876.
The romanian currency LEU / BANI [100 bani=1 leu] appeared in
Romania upon a law issued on 4.05.1867 and was introduced in the romanian
Banat between 1920-'21.
Shortly after WWI, 1 leu = 0,290322 grams of fine gold [OR 0,32258 grams
of gold with the title 900/1000].
In 1929, 1 US$ = 167,18 lei [9 mg. fine gold OR 10 mg. of gold with the
title 900/1000].
LEU ["lei" at plural] means "lion" in romanian
language.
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