On May 1, 1683, King Christian V created an office of justice ( justervæsen ), headed by Ole Rømer . The cubit ( alen ) was fixed at 2 feet of the Rhine. Only later did Rømer discover that there were different definitions of the foot of the Rhine , which is why an iron prototype was made in Copenhagen in 1698 . The foot ( fod ) was determined in 1820 based on the period of oscillation of a pendulum and revised in 1835. The metric system was introduced in 1907.
At the end of the 17th century, Ole Rømer determined the mile based on the circumference of the earth and divided it into 12,000 alen . Prussia took over this as the Prussian mile in 1816 . The definition of 1835 was 7.532 km. Before that there were many variants, the most common being the Sjællandsk miilfod or 11.130 km.
Length measurements
1 mile (mil)
24,000 feet (Fod)
7 532 m
1 quarter mile (Fjerdingmil)1 Kvartmil
6,000 feet (Fod)
1 000 thread (Favn)
3,000 cubits (alen)
1 883 m
1 thread (Favn)
3 cubits (alen)
6 feet (fod)
188.31 cm
1 cubit (alen)
2 feet (fod)
62.77 cm
1 (Rhine) foot (Fod)
12 thumbs (tommer)
31.38 cm or 31.41 cm, from 1683 31.407 cm
1 quarter (elle) (Kvarter)
6 thumbs (tommer)
15.69 cm
1 palm (palm)
8.86 cm (for circumferences)
1 inch / thumb (Tomme)
12 lines (ruled)
2.62 cm
1 barley grain (Bygkorn)
1/128 cubit (alen)
4.9 mm
1 line
12 scruples
2.18 mm
1 scruple (scruple)
0.18 mm
Area dimensions
1 ton of hard grain (Tønde hard grain)
72,000 square cells (kvadratals)
28 369 m 2
1 ton of land (Tønde land)
14,000 square cells (kvadratals)
8 bushels (skæppe)
5516 m 2
1 bushel (skæppe)
4 neighborhoods ( Fjerdingkar )
12 album
689.5 m 2
1 quarter (Fjerdingkar)
3 album
12 Pfennig (Penning)
172.38 m 2
1 album
4 Pfennig (Penning)
57.46 m 2
1 pfennig (penning)
14.37 m 2
1 quadratelle (kvadratalen)
0.39 m 2
Measure of capacity
beer
1 barrel of beer (Fad øl)
2 tons (Tønder)
34 district (Fjerding)
272 pots
262.78 L.
1 cubical (cubical)
256 pots
8 cubic feet (cubic fod)
247.20 l
1 ox head (Oksehoved)
6 anchors
234 pots
225.96 L.
1 grain barrel (Korntønde)
144 pots
1 ton / butter churn (Smørtønde)
136 pots
8 eighth tons (Otting)
131.4 l
1 anchor
39 pot
2 lails (pimples)
37.66 l
1 quarter [ton] (Fjerding)
2 eighths of a ton (Otting)
32.85 l
1 cubic foot (cubic fod)
32 pots
4 quarters
16 cans (Kander)
30.9 l
1 lail (pimple)
18.83 l
1 eighth ton (Otting)
17 pots
16.42 l
1 quarter
8 pot
7.73 l
1 jug (Kande)
2 pots
1.93 l
1 pot (pot)
4 glass ( Pægle )
0.97 l
1 glass ( Pægl )
0.24 l
Wine
1 barrel of wine
6 Ahm
903.83 L.
1 ahm wine
4 anchors
150.64 l
grain
1 load (Læst)
12 tons
6 barrel (fad)
1,670.40 L.
1 barrel
2 tons (Tønder)
288 pots
278.40 l
1 ton (Tønde)
144 pots
18 bushels (skæpper)
139.20 l
1 bushel (skæppe)
8 pot
12 album
17.4 l
1 quarter sheffel (fjerdingkar)
3 album
4.35 l
1 eighths sheffle (Ottingkar)
2.17 l
1 album
1.45 l
Weights
1 ship pound (Skippund)
20 Liespfund (Lispund)
320 pounds (pounds)
640 marks
160 kg
1 Liespfund (Lispund)
16 pounds (pounds)
32 marks
8 kg
1 Besemer pound (Bismerpund)
5 977 gr
1 pound (pound)1 Skålpund
32 Lod
Weight of 1/62 fot³ water
500 gr (499.75 g from 1863)
1 mark
250 gr
1 ounce
2 Lot (Lod)
31.25 gr
1 lot (Lod)
15.63 gr
1 o'clock before 1861 (Kvintin)
4 place
3.91 gr
1 Quent (Kvint) after 1861
10 place
5 gr
1 location before 1861
0.98 gr
1 place after 1861
0.5 gr
Butter weight
1 ton (Tønde)
4 Fjerding
8 Otting
112 kg
1 third
50.75 kg
1 quarter (Fjerding)
2 Otting
28 kg
1 Otting
14 kg
Silver weight
1 mark
16 Lot (lod)
235.3 gr
1 lot (Lod)
14.7 gr
Pharmacist weight
1 pharmacist pound
12 pharmacist ounces
96 drachmas
288 scruples
357.85 gr
1 pharmacist ounce
8 drachmas
24 scruples
480 grains
29.82 gr
1 drachma
3 scruples
60 grains
3.73 gr
1 scruple
20 grains
1.24 gr
1 grain
0.06 gr
Counting measures
unit
German
definition
dusin
dozen
12
snes
Stairs
20th
storhundret
Big hundred
120
big
Large
144
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