Klem (unit)

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Klem was a length measure for a depth per peat layer of a peat store and regionally dependent on the measure of the cutting tool. The peat was commonly known as clamping, or phased out. The number of terminals was the basis of the remuneration.

In Prussia there was a piece of peat land, a bank, 7 feet long and 1 foot wide.

  • 1 clamp = 4 inches

A row measuring 1 foot long, 4 inches wide, 4 inches thick was cut. There were 21 pieces or 1 clamp.

Example:

  • Thickness of peat 5 feet by 12 inches equals 60 inches deep
    • 1 clamp (peat sod) was 1 foot long, 4 inches wide, 4 inches thick
    • 60 inches divided by 4 inches equals 15 clamps for the depth

literature

  • Heinrich Christoph Moser: The peat economy in the Fichtelgebirge. Riegel and Wiessner, Nuremberg 1825, p. 92.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oscar Mothes: Illustrirtes Bau-Lexikon. Volume 2, Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1866, p. 393.