Field (unit)

Acker (Danish: Ager ) was a German and Danish area and field measure for land surveying.

Germany

Acker was a German area measure and, depending on the place of use, was slightly larger or smaller than an acre .

• In Nordhausen 1 acre = 160 square rods = 27.716 ares (corresponds to 1.0855 acres (Preuss.))
• In the Electorate of Hesse 1 field = 150 square rods = 23.865 acres
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Sondershausen 1 acre = 120 square rods = 18.773 acres
  • Arnstadt 1 field = 160 square rods
    • 196 square feet = 25.027 ares
    • at 256 square feet = 32.688 ares
• Mühlhausen (Unstrut) 1 acre = 160 square rods = 24.736 acres
• Principalities of Reuss
  • Ebersdorf 1 acre = 160 square rods = 37.847 ares
• Sachsen-Altenburg 1 acre = 200 square rods = 64.43 ares

Denmark

• 1 ager = 24 ruffles / furrows / bifangles = 150 times 12½ cubits
• 2 Ager = 1 Fyeringh / Fjering
• 16 Fyeringh = 1 Otting
• 4 Fjerding = 1 Boolean
• 8 ottings = 1 boolean / plank

See also

• acre

literature

• Johann Georg Landau: The territories in relation to their formation and their development. Friedrich and Andreas Perthes, Hamburg / Gotha 1854, p. 82.
• Niels Nikolaus Falck: New civic magazine with special consideration for the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Volume 3, Royal Deaf-Mute Institute, Schleswig 1835, p. 92.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1855, pp. 47, 148, 149.