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Keywords; Search terms: historical time series; historical statistics; histat / HISTAT . Abstract: Edition and analysis (especially of market mechanisms and price policies) of the official weekly price quotes on food, primarily on grain prices at the municipal market of Cologne until the beginning of French occupation. Topics: Grain prices and turnover in Cologne from 1531 to 1797 (information on amount and price of wheat, rye, barley and oats in constant measuring units across time) in weekly, monthly and annual tables; bread weights and prices from 1658 to 1773 (information on ´Semmelgin´, a bread made from a wheat mixture, on ´Roggelgin´, a bread made from a rye mixture and on ´Malterbrot´, a black bread, in constant measuring units across time) in weekly, monthly and annual tables. Data tables offered by the database HISTAT: - Grain prices and grain sales in Cologne, annual data (1531-1797) - Silver value of the “Albus” and gold value of the “Rechnungsgulden” (1386-1777) - Average grain price in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th Century (1563-1975) - Grain prices in Cologne per Malt wheat/rye (1368-1511) - Grain prices in Cologne per Malt wheat/rye (1512-1530) - Grain prices in Cologne Weizen/Roggen (1531-1657) - Grain prices in Cologne, bread prices, and bread weights (1658-1773) - Grain prices in Cologne (1774-1797) Furthermore, the following data are accessable: Grain prices and grain sales in Cologne, weekly data from 1531 to 1797 (as SPSS or Excel file); these data can be ordered via the PDF-Order-Form (http://www.gesis.org/en/services/data/data-historical-social-research/data-access/). The ZA study number is 8014.