Field measure

A field measure is a measure of area and indicates the size of areas used for agriculture and forestry. Old field measures are morning , field, bushel , yoke , Juchart , hoof , day's work . Field measures still used today are that or the hectare and that or the ar .

The field size in Lübeck was determined according to loads and was very different. The loads corresponded to the yield of an area of 96 bushels. Different soil yields resulted in a field measure between 60 and 80 square rods .

literature

Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 6. Altenburg 1858, p. 172
Fritz Verdenhalven Old measurement and currency systems from the German-speaking area, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1993
Otto Brandt documents on measure and weight in Saxony, 1933
Werner Rockstuhl, Harald Rockstuhl Handbook, Old Thuringian, Prussian, Saxon and Mecklenburg dimensions and their conversion, Bad Langensalza, 1997

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Elert Kruse: General and especially Hamburg clerk, who knows the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, Volume 1, p. 361.

[1] Jürgen Elert Kruse: General and especially Hamburg clerk, who knows the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, Volume 1, p. 361.