A Companion to the Hanseatic League

The Baltic Trade 225

temperatures.124 Ashes were produced in the felling-areas and from there trans-

ported to the overseas centers, like Danzig, Thorn, Elbing, Königsberg-Kneiphof

but also to Riga and Pernau. At these places the ashes were examined (gewrackt)

and got a special seal guaranteeing the quality of this product.125 Not only the

Prussian cities but also the Hanseatic kontors played a great role in the ash-trade,

as did the Teutonic Order, which produced a huge amount in their own forests in

124 Rolf Gelius, “Waidasche und Pottasche als Universalalkalien für die chemischen Gewerbe

des Ostseeraumes im 16./17. Jahrhundert.” In: Der Ost- und Nordseeraum. Politik—

Ideologie—Kultur vom 12. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert, ed. Konrad Fritze, Eckhard Müller-

Mertens and Johannes Schildhauer, Abhandlungen zur Handels- und Sozialgeschichte,

Band 25, zugl. Hansische Studien, Band vii (Weimar: Böhlaus Nachf., 1986), 91–107.

125 Th. Hirsch, Handelsgeschichte, 165f. and Beilage viii, 282f.; F. Mager, Der Wald, ii, 42.

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