Frankfurt staff

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The Frankfurt staff was a unit of length in the Free City of Frankfurt . It is counted among the cubits that were particularly common in the cloth trade . The brass standard made in 1778 deviated only a little from the Paris bar, the verge . A Paris staff had 526 5/6 Paris lines , which is the equivalent of 1.18885 meters .

  • 1 Frankfurt rod = 523.976 Paris lines = 1.1826 meters, i.e. about 6.8 millimeters difference to the Paris rod.
  • 1 meter = 0.84602 Frankfurt staff

Compared to the other Frankfurt linear measures, the accuracy was good

  • 100 Frankfurt staff = 216 Frankfurt cubits
  • 42 Frankfurt rod = 71 Brabant cubits , a measure also recorded on the brass standard
  • 11 Frankfurt staff = 13 meters

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Chelius : Reliable comparison of the local measures and weights against each other as well as against the French and several others: A corrective contribution to the science of measurements and weights. Brönner and Hermann Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1805, p. 1
  • Georg Kaspar Chelius: Measure and weight book. Third edition. Verlag der Jägerschen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, with additions by Johann Friedrich Hauschild and a preface by Heinrich Christian Schumacher ; online in Google Book Search, pp. 1–2
  • Ludolph Schleier: The commercial science. Festsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, pp. 71, 72