Skip to main content

Grain Prices in Cologne 1531-1797 (Metz)

Grain prices as supplied by Rainer Metz and compiled for the printed edition of Dietrich Ebeling and Franz Irsigler, Getreideumsatz, Getreide- und Brotpreise in Köln, 1368-1797 (Köln, 1976).

For all quotations of grain prices and quantities, as well as bread prices and weights, see Dietrich Ebeling and Franz Irsigler, Getreideumsatz, Getreide- und Brotpreise in Köln, 1368-1797 (Köln, 1976), which provides a detailed explanation of the source material.

All data on price and quantity are drawn from sales of the weekly market in Cologne, which served as a trans-shipment hub for grain. Prices are weekly averages and quantities refer to volume sold during an entire week. The weeks in each month are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These data reflect, insofar as officials took care in recording them, the activities of a "free" market. The data from the seventeenth century should be used with special caution, because transactions from these years were often negligently recorded.

All prices are quoted in monies of account of Cologne, either in Gulden or Mark (1 Gulden = 4 Mark = 24 Albus = 288 Heller). For information about the bullion equivalents of these monies of account or their exchange rates, see the data set named Currency Exchanges (Metz).

39973 matches of 39973 were found for your query.
Year, between
Month, between
Week, between
Month / Week / Year: 1560
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Wheat 303 Mark 16.50 2/2/1560
Wheat Mark 16.50 3/2/1560
Wheat 336 Mark 16.67 4/2/1560
Wheat 274 Mark 17.00 1/3/1560
Wheat 454 Mark 17.00 2/3/1560
Wheat 553 Mark 16.50 3/3/1560
Wheat Mark 15.50 4/3/1560
Wheat 202 Mark 15.50 1/4/1560
Wheat 196 Mark 15.50 2/4/1560
Wheat 196 Mark 15.50 3/4/1560
Wheat 304 Mark 15.50 4/4/1560
Wheat 123 Mark 15.50 1/5/1560
Wheat 198 Mark 15.50 2/5/1560
Wheat 215 Mark 15.50 3/5/1560
Wheat 339 Mark 15.50 4/5/1560
Wheat Mark 15.50 5/5/1560
Wheat 126 Mark 15.50 1/6/1560
Wheat 110 Mark 15.50 2/6/1560
Wheat 110 Mark 15.50 3/6/1560
Wheat 276 Mark 16.00 4/6/1560
Wheat 159 Mark 16.50 1/7/1560
Wheat 185 Mark 17.00 2/7/1560
Wheat 305 Mark 16.67 3/7/1560
Wheat 328 Mark 16.17 4/7/1560
Wheat 328 Mark 16.17 5/7/1560
Wheat 329 Mark 16.17 1/8/1560
Wheat 355 Mark 16.33 2/8/1560
Wheat 239 Mark 15.33 3/8/1560
Wheat 108 Mark 15.33 4/8/1560
Wheat 201 Mark 16.00 1/9/1560
Wheat 127 Mark 15.33 2/9/1560
Wheat 73 Mark 16.33 3/9/1560
Wheat 228 Mark 16.17 4/9/1560
Wheat 394 Mark 16.17 1/10/1560
Wheat 349 Mark 16.33 2/10/1560
Wheat 490 Mark 16.50 3/10/1560
Wheat 453 Mark 16.67 4/10/1560
Wheat 299 Mark 16.67 5/10/1560
Wheat 583 Mark 17.17 1/11/1560
Wheat 490 Mark 17.17 2/11/1560
Wheat 379 Mark 17.50 3/11/1560
Wheat 483 Mark 17.33 4/11/1560
Wheat 576 Mark 17.50 1/12/1560
Wheat 523 Mark 17.33 2/12/1560
Wheat 640 Mark 16.50 3/12/1560
Wheat 640 Mark 16.50 4/12/1560
Month / Week / Year: 1561
Product Number of Malters Sold Currency Price per Malter Month / Week / Year
Barley 303 Mark 9.17 1/1/1561
Barley 303 Mark 9.17 2/1/1561
Barley 443 Mark 8.67 3/1/1561
Barley 308 Mark 8.67 4/1/1561