Bosses (unit)

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Bosses was a Swiss square measure and a name for the morning measure in the French-speaking cantons . It belongs to the sowing measures . With a given amount of seeds , a certain large arable area can be cultivated.

The amount of seeds for bosses was:

  • 1 Metzen (Wiener = 61.49 l) plus 23 Maßl (Wiener = 3.84 l) = about 150 liters (149.81 liters)

and the area was

  • 1 Bosses = 1.29 acres (Preuss.) = 912 square fathoms (Wiener = 3.597 m²) = about 3280.5 square meters
    • Note: Bosse is a Swiss measure of volume.

literature

  • Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 29

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig 1851, p. 104
  2. ↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially all nature and fatherland friends. , P. 30