Wood size

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The wood measure was a German area measure around Heidelberg . The measure belongs to the older ones.

  • 1 wood size = ½ fathoms ( Baden )
  • 1 old wood dimension = 0.5244 new wood dimension

literature

  • M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight . Horvath, Potsdam 1855, p. 22.
  • Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight, the exchange, money and fund rates etc. together with an alphabetical list of the action companies. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1858, p. 196.

Individual evidence

  1. M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvath, Potsdam 1859, p. 210.