Aune (unit)

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The aune was a French measure of length and can be called a French cubit .

Despite the decree of February 12, 1812, the more detailed provisions by a law of March of the same year and the introduction of the metric system, the measure could continue to be used if a reference to the metric was always indicated. The Aune was also known as a stick. The measure also applied in French-speaking Switzerland.

A division into half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth was possible. Divisions into thirds, sixths and twelfths have also become known. The measure was also known as a double cell. The Aune was also chosen for the area and room dimensions and called the former Aune carrée and the latter Aune cube.

Switzerland

Basel

In Basel a distinction was made between large aune (Elle) and small aune (Braccio). Here were the values:

Canton of Friborg

  • 1 Aune = 474 1/6 Parisian lines = 1.069 meters

Geneva , Bruges and Winterthur

Here, too, there was the big or Parisian and the little Aune.

  • 1 Paris Aune = 526 Paris Lines = 1.183 meters for wholesale
  • 1 small aune = 507 Paris lines = 1.143 meters for retail

Canton of Neuchâtel

  • 1 Aune = 500 Paris Lines = 1.124 meters

Canton of Vaud

  • 1 aune = 532 Paris lines = 1.2 meters

Canton of Valais

  • 1 aune = 541 ½ Parisian lines = 1.022 meters

France

Paris

Here, as in all of France, two dimensions of different lengths replaced. Had before 1812

  • 1 Aune = 325 5/6 Parisian lines = 0.735 meters

and from 1812

  • 1 Aune = 531 19/20 lines = 1.196 meters

Marseille

  • 1 Aune useelle = 531.9552 Paris lines = 1.20 meters

Nancy

  • 1 old Aune = 283 ½ Parisian lines = 0.63953 meters

Nice

Here the measure is called Alna and one unit corresponded to a length of 1.1834 meters.

Saint Malo

The Aune de Bretagne was one of the older cubits in Saint-Malo for rough linen items .

  • 1 Aune de Bretagne = 600 Paris lines = 1.3535 meters

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 12.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and Weight Book. Jägersche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 156.
  2. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios…. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 646.
  3. ↑ 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. 7.
  4. ↑ Christian Noback, Friedrich Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1077.