Ammersaat

Ammersaat was a measure of area in the Tonderschen Marschen, Geest , on the island of Sylt and Föhr . It was a sowing measure the size of a bushel (bushel seed). The measure was used as early as 1777.

Tone 1 Ammersaat = 4.7894 ares
1 blackbird seed = 18 square rods
10 Ammersaat = 1 Diemat

literature

J. Booysen: Description of the island of Sylt in geographical, statistical and historical terms . Royal Deaf and Mute Institute, Schleswig 1828, p. 12.

Individual evidence

↑ GN Wülfke : About the Sylt landscape constitution and its contemporary improvement. University bookstore in commission, Kiel 1831, p. 65 (footnote).
↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 207.

[1] GN Wülfke : About the Sylt landscape constitution and its contemporary improvement. University bookstore in commission, Kiel 1831, p. 65 (footnote).

[2] Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 207.