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From: Siegfried Rambaum <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] land measurement in Poland
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 18:15:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20060530162005.45137.qmail@web82101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


> Does anyone know what a " Koretz" land measurement meant?

No such measurement existed as a unit of measurement for areas.

> "In a contract, drawn in south Poland between a Polish
> count and a group of German settlers, the contract refers
> to a Koretz, which is a measurement of land. I am fairly
> certain of the spelling, though it might be spelled Korecz/Korescz."

I am pretty much certain that the measure related to the annual dues
the German settlers had to pay to their Polish overlord. After all, the
KORZEC was a measure of volume which was used exclusively for GRAIN.

1 Korzec = 4 Cwierci at 8 Garcy each, which are at 4 Kwart each, which
are at 4 Kwaterky each. The KWART is identical to the LITRE. The Korzec
is thus an impressive measure, that equals

6452.7892 Parisian cubic inches
.. 1.5340 Amsterdam Bags
.. 1.6205 Antwerp Quarts
.. 0.5757 Bavarian Bushels
.. 1.7281 Bremen Bushels
.. 0.9209 Danish Grain-Barrel
.. 0.4402 Imperial (UK) Quarters
.. 1.2800 Hectolitres (= 34.1 U.S. Gallons)

> I have checked my sources and find nothing. Can anyone help?

Check this source, which is available free on the web:

Aldefeld, C. L. W.: "Die Maaße und Gewichte der deutschen
Zoll-Vereins-Staaten und vieler anderer Länder und Handels-
plätze in ihren gegenseitigen Verhältnissen...", Stuttgardt
& Tübingen 1838

Polish measures are on pages 158. The Aldefeld can be downloaded from the
University of Cologne server at http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/
.... Search the Index of publications for the author´s name...


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