Dog (unit)

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A dog (sometimes also spelled Hunt ) is the name of various dimensions that were formerly used in northern Germany .

Word origin

The origin of the word is unclear. After the ennoblement , the term appeared in Lower Saxony documents of the 13th century. It can be assumed that the word probably refers to the previously common name dog for the number 100.

Dimensions

Once it was a measure of peat and was equated to 60 to 70, but according to other information also up to 100 so-called large baskets. (See here: size of dogs .)

The second form was a field measure and corresponded to 1/6 acre in Oldenburgischen. To other measures, these relationships were:

  • 1 dog corresponded to 59 ½ itch (old measure), also itch , or 400 square feet in the Duchy of Oldenburg .
  • Bremen: 1 dog = 1/5 acres (area about 20 rods long, 4 rods wide)

In Bremen , a dog / hunt with peat was prescribed by the regulation of October 19, 1829 (correction regulation). There should be 60 tree carrier baskets with 108 sods or 80 wagon baskets with 81 sods. 60 sods were combined into a covenant.

See also

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, text in the Google book search

Individual evidence

  1. Adelung: The dog
  2. ^ Franz Joseph Mone: Contributions to the history of the Volkswirthschaft from documents. G. Braun'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Karlsruhe 1859, p. 565.
  3. Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau: Compilation of the provisions issued in relation to the conversion of the Bremen mass, weights and coins into the mass, weights and coins of the German Empire. In: Natural Science Association (Bremen): Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Bremen. Volume 3, C. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1872, p. 354 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).